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Pesticide Use Program 2020-21 Season

For pesticide use by New England Weeds Authority in Uralla Shire, visit the New England Weeds Authority website or phone NEWA office 6770 3602.

Herbicide Use

Purpose: Control of noxious and environmental weeds; roadside maintenance program; maintenance of public parks and reserves

The following program lists situations in which Council plans to use more than 20 litres of diluted herbicide, or smaller quantities of herbicides not commonly available for use in home gardens. Notices will be placed on site only where required by the Notification Plan of the New England Tableland Councils or when warning regarding re-entry or use of the site is warranted. Other herbicides may be used on Council public reserves only with notification as provided for by the Pesticide Notification Plan 2020-21 which is available through websites of this Council or New England Weeds Authority.

Month	Weeds Treated	Areas Treated	Herbicide Used
Any month year-round	Tree and shrub suckers & seedlings in sightlines Broadleaf weeds including bindii Total grass control	Rural roads Parks, gardens, picnic areas, cemeteries, sports fields Parks, picnic areas, cemeteries, urban paths, signs, culverts, bridge approaches, landfill sites	Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green and/or PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl Wetter: Rygel Penatra. OR PCT Surefire Raizon Adama Cutlass M or Bayer Spearhead Nufarm Weedmaster Duo or Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green
July - November 2020	Coolatai and African Love Grasses Medics, Oxeye Daisy	Roadside reserves with high conservation value Bushland reserves Linfield and Gostwyck road reserves	Vee Dri Taskforce OR Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl with wetter: Rygel Penatra or Nufarm Chemwet 1000
November 2020 - April 2021	St Johns Wort Blackberry, Sweet Briar, Hawthorn, Cotoneaster, Whiskey Grass, African Love Grass, Whiskey Grass, Nightshade, Willows, poplar suckers, Honeysuckle Coolatai Grass African Love Grass Other introduced grasses and herbs	Uralla & Bundara Townships including reserves parks roadsides Rural Roads Mt Mutton, The Glen Racecourse Lagoon Bundarra Nature Park Fossicking area Waste stations, Landfill Roadside reserves with high conservation value	Apparent Axeman 600 or PCT Surefire Raizon Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green OR PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl with wetter: Nufarm Chemwet 1000 or Rygel Penatra OR Macspread Vigillant II Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green
May - June 2021	Coolatai Grass African Love Grasses Whiskey Grass Medics Winter-growing introduced grasses	Roadside reserves with high conservation value Bushland Reserves	Vee Dri Taskforce or Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl with wetter: Rygel Penatra or Nufarm Chemwet 1000 OR Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

Month

Weeds Treated

Areas Treated

Herbicide Used

Any month year-round

Tree and shrub suckers & seedlings in sightlines

Broadleaf weeds including bindii

Total grass control

Rural roads

Parks, gardens, picnic areas, cemeteries, sports fields

Parks, picnic areas, cemeteries, urban paths, signs, culverts,

bridge approaches, landfill sites

Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green and/or

PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl

Wetter: Rygel Penatra.

OR PCT Surefire Raizon

Adama Cutlass M or

Bayer Spearhead

Nufarm Weedmaster Duo or Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

July - November 2020

Coolatai and African Love Grasses

Medics, Oxeye Daisy

Roadside reserves with high conservation value

Bushland reserves

Linfield and Gostwyck road reserves

Vee Dri Taskforce

Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl

with wetter: Rygel Penatra or

Nufarm Chemwet 1000

November 2020 - April 2021

St Johns Wort

Blackberry, Sweet

Briar, Hawthorn,

Cotoneaster, Whiskey Grass, African Love Grass, Whiskey Grass, Nightshade, Willows, poplar suckers, Honeysuckle

Coolatai Grass

African Love Grass Other introduced grasses and herbs

Uralla & Bundara Townships including reserves parks roadsides

Rural Roads

Mt Mutton, The Glen

Racecourse Lagoon

Bundarra Nature Park

Fossicking area

Waste stations, Landfill

Roadside reserves with high conservation value

Apparent Axeman 600 or PCT Surefire Raizon

Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl

with wetter: Nufarm Chemwet 1000

or Rygel Penatra

OR Macspread Vigillant II

Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

May - June 2021

Coolatai Grass

African Love Grasses

Whiskey Grass

Medics

Winter-growing introduced grasses

Roadside reserves with high conservation value

Bushland Reserves

Vee Dri Taskforce or

Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

PCT Surefire Metsulfuron Methyl

with wetter: Rygel Penatra or Nufarm Chemwet 1000

Apparent Glyphosate 360 Green

Notes: areas treated with ‘Taskforce’ by spot spray application are not to be grazed or cut for stock food for at least 14 days after application. Any stock grazed in treated areas after this period should then graze on other clean feed for 14 days before slaughter or milking for human consumption. This herbicide contains flupropanate. It may be used in consultation with stock grazing managers once per year in a few locations to control specific susceptible grasses while minimising damage to other desirable grasses and herbs. Notices will be erected on the sites where it is used.

Environmental Weeds: In bushland areas of conservation value all non-native plants can be environmental weeds; species that tend to invade healthy bushland are of particular concern along with species that may compete significantly against native species for space, moisture light or nutrients. In Council-managed bushland and wetland sites both declared noxious weeds and environmental weeds may be treated as part of the bushland regeneration program. Small patches of invasive species such as Coolatai and African Love Grasses in or near significant areas with diverse native groundcover will be one focus of the program. Species such as Broom, Privet, Cotoneaster, Firethorn and Hawthorn may be treated as part of the roadside maintenance program by Council or New England Weeds Authority. These plants produce prolific amounts of long-lived seeds or small berries that are spread by birds and foxes and if left unchecked have the potential to form dense thickets crowding out other desirable species.

Other pesticides

Seasonal Applications

Times of possible use

Target animal

Areas Treated

Pesticide Used

July - October

Termites

Timber vehicle or foot bridges including Mihi and Munsies bridges and in Alma Park, Porter Park, and Bundarra

Termidor active ingredient ‘Fipronil’

OR Sentricon active ingredient ‘Fipronil’

Other Chemicals Used

Times of possible use	Target animal	Areas Treated	Pesticide Used
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Spiders, ants and cockroaches	Area treated is defined by circumstance	Biflex Ultra, active ingredient ‘Bifentherin’
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Cockroaches	Area treated is defined by circumstance	Amdro Cockroach Gel ‘Hydramethoylnon’
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Spiders and cockroaches	Area treated is defined by circumstance	Dragnet Dust, active ingredient ‘ Permethrin’
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Ants	Area treated is defined by circumstance	Advion Ant Gel active ingredient ‘Indoxacarb’
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Cockroaches	Area treated is defined by circumstance	David Gays High Performance Roach Surface Spray (or equivalent) active ingredient ‘Cypermethrin’
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Rodents	Area treated is defined by circumstance	Generation First Strike active ingredient ‘ Difethialone’
An annual inspection program between September and October identifies need, however applications can occur at any time of the year as conditions change.	Termites	Area treated is defined by circumstance	Termidor active ingredient ‘Fipronil’ OR Sentricon active ingredient ‘Fipronil’

Further Information

For additional information please contact Council’s Customer Service on (02) 6778 6300.