Taking care of orchard and viticulture hygiene post-season with All Clear 2X makes good operational sense.
Prep now, reduce stress and costs later!
Taking care of orchard and viticulture hygiene post-season makes good operational sense. It will save you time and money down the track, and it sets you up for the next season.
First up – Post-harvest sprayer cleaning.
Absolutely no-one likes working with dirty, sticky spray equipment. David Lingan, UPL NZ Ltd’s Adjuvant Product Manager, recommends you do everyone a favour (including yourself) with a really thorough post-harvest clean-up of spray equipment.
“Getting spray equipment cleaned after harvest and prior to servicing or storage is smart. It’s at a comparatively less busy part of the year, so the time is there. You also want to maintain the value of your gear, and its performance, and to keep on the right side of anyone who is servicing it.”
He likens cleaning spray gear to the discipline of triple rinsing containers. “It’s about being professional and getting the best out of machinery, and protecting yourself, and everyone you work with.”
Cleaning out at the end of every season
At the end of every spray season, and between products, David recommends All Clear® 2X tank cleaner and decontaminant. “It’ll remove even notoriously ‘sticky’ products.”
All Clear 2X includes a unique combination of surfactants, sequestrants and detergents to remove residues, lock-up molecules for improved rinse-out, solubilize and break-down residues. “All Clear 2X is the complete package.”
David says post-harvest cleaning helps minimise any possible risks of spray residues, or blocked nozzles. “The service techs will definitely appreciate it. And, maybe best of all it’s not only very effective, but also affordable.”
All Clear 2X thoroughly cleans spray tanks, spray lines, booms and nozzles and, as an added bonus, helps protect equipment against corrosion.
“It’s absolutely invaluable for high-value helicopter spray set-ups and is especially important for sectors including viticulture, which need to spray a lot. It’s just part of best practice, really.”
David says All Clear 2X outperforms other tank cleaners across a wide range of chemicals. That’s combined with a long shelf-life. An absence of chlorine or ammonia also improves operator safety and makes it more pleasant to work with.
With a portfolio of more than twenty proven adjuvant products, including All Clear 2X, UPL (formerly Etec) are industry leaders with a specialist understanding of New Zealand conditions and requirements, along with the pressures on local growers and producers.
Tidying up with Bammer®
And, while you’re focused on getting things tidied up, David also recommends adding to your programme, Bammer, a herbicide innovation delivering exceptionally fast, effective, broad spectrum weed control in orchards and vineyards. It can also be used on waste areas, and for seedbed preparation before new crops are sown.
David says with the proven power of glufosinate ammonium, coupled with carfentrazone-ethyl, Bammer provides outstanding post-emergent weed control of broadleaf weeds and grasses. “It acts really, really quickly. It gets things looking clean and organised. That way, you’re all ready for the next season. It keeps all that undergrowth down and that way, the property looks great.”
For more information visit All Clear 2X and Bammer.
