For turfgrass managers seeking an additional tool for post-emergent control of sedges and broadleaf weeds, Harrell's recently launched ProtectMAX Southside herbicide.
With the active ingredients sulfosulfuron and metsulfuron-methyl, ProtectMax Southside is labeled for selective post-emergent control of many annual and perennial sedges and grassy and broadleaf weeds in warm-season turf on golf courses, athletic fields and sod farms, as well as in commercial, industrial, institutional and residential applications.
ProtectMAX Southside is labeled for control of dozens of sedges and weeds, including green kyllinga, yellow nutsedge, purple nutsedge, tall fescue, Dallisgrass, Virginia buttonweed, annual bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, dandelions, dollarweed, spurge and white clover and many others.
The product can be applied at 1.5 ounces per acre twice per year, according to the label. It may not be applied through an irrigation system or anywhere runoff might be a concern.
ProtectMAX Southside should not be applied to turf already under stress from insect pests, disease drought or poor fertility and all measures to prevent drift on to non-target species should be taken.
A Group 2 herbicide, ProtectMAX Southside should be rotated with other Group 2 chemistries, and can be tank mixed with other products from other groups.
ProtectMAX Southside is approved for use in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
In other news from Harrell's, Jack Harrell III (right) officially took over as the company's chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors on Aug. 15.
Harrell is a fourth-generation leader of the company that was started in 1941 in Lakeland, Florida by his great-grandfather Ormond Harrell, and succeeds his father Jack Harrell Jr., who died in July at age 68 after a brief battle with brain cancer.
Jack Harrell Jr. had been the company's CEO since 1991.