Additional Crops Available on Popular Herbicide Label

Stalwart Receives Supplemental Label

 Durham, North Carolina:  SipcamAdvan announced today that Stalwart® Herbicide is now approved for use on tomatoes in California.  Stalwart is a metolachlor product offering outstanding, cost effective preemergence weed control.  One application takes care of a broad spectrum of troublesome weeds including foxtail, fall panicum, crabgrass, pigweed, yellow nutsedge and many others. 

Stalwart may be applied post-directed to direct seeded tomatoes.  On transplanted tomatoes Stalwart may be applied pre-plant incorporated or pre-plant before transplanting.  Application may also be made post-directed to transplants after the first settling rain or irrigation.  Stalwart Herbicide is an emulsifiable concentrate formulation labeled for use on a wide variety of crops.  Stalwart contains 8 pounds of metolachlor per gallon and provides preemergence control of annual grasses and small-seeded broadleaf weeds.

Giovanni Mattaini, Product Manager for SipcamAdvan explains the importance of metolachlor.  “As a basic registrant and strategic global supplier of metolachlor, SipcamAdvan invests significant resources to maintain and expand the Stalwart label; offering more solutions for growers.  Stalwart offers growers an economical, effective preemergence herbicide for use on tomatoes.”

 About SipcamAdvan

SipcamAdvan is owned by the Sipcam-Oxon Group, an Italian company recognized worldwide for its formulation and manufacturing expertise.  SipcamAdvan uses a distribution-focused marketing strategy to provide traditional chemical and biorational products to the agriculture, turf and ornamental, home and garden, and pest management markets in the U.S. and Mexico.  The company is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.