Pixies: New generation spray adjuvant for more effective weed control campaigns

Date:11-19-2024

Cérience has developed a range of bio-based spray adjuvants to improve the effectiveness of herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide treatments. By optimizing the effectiveness of active ingredients, Cérience's adjuvants thus contribute to the development of more environmentally friendly agricultural practices by allowing particular dose reductions (low-volume treatment): less product, better targeted, and more effective! 

Pixies, Cérience's bio-based spray adjuvant, is specially designed to optimize your herbicide treatments. With its four functionalities—retention, penetration, soil penetration, and wetting—Pixies improves weed control and promotes better plot yields.

What is the use of Cérience Pixies Spray Adjuvant? 

Pixies is a spray adjuvant from the wetting agent family. It is used in herbicide sprays. This adjuvant has introduced an innovative active ingredient: alkylpolyglucoside. Developed from corn starch and coconut oil, this advanced technology significantly improves the effectiveness of herbicides on many crops: cereals, legumes, vines, etc. 

Pixies optimizes the retention, penetration and wetting of sprayed drops to ensure maximum coverage and rapid absorption by the target plants: ryegrass, foxtail, etc.

What are the four functions of Pixies adjuvant for your herbicide sprays?

Pixies adjuvant combines four functions to get rid of your weeds. It is the triple action for maximum effectiveness of your herbicides.

1. Retention function: optimizes the coverage of the spray on the leaves of the weeds.

Pixies improves the retention of the herbicide spray on the weeds thanks to its ability to reduce the surface tension of the sprayed drops. This results in:

• Reduction of the rebound effect: the drops adhere better to the leaves, thus avoiding runoff.

• Reduction in product losses: Less loss and more active substance on the targeted plants for increased treatment effectiveness.

2. Penetration function: acceleration of the penetration of the herbicide into the plant

The alkylpolyglucoside technology allows rapid penetration of herbicides through the leaf cuticle:

• Direct action on the plant cells: more active material is absorbed in depth.

• Fast and effective results: accelerated herbicide action that maximizes impact on weeds.

3. Moisturizing function: extends the contact time of the spray with the leaves.

Thanks to its moisturizing effect (glycerin-based composition), Pixies allows better spreading of the droplets on the leaves and delays drying:

• Reduced volatilization and evaporation: droplets remain on the leaves longer.

• Increased contact time: improves the diffusion and effectiveness of applied herbicides.

4. Penetration into the soil

Thanks to its physicochemical properties, Pixies allows better penetration:

• Improves the penetration speed of the active ingredient

• More homogeneous distribution on the ground surface

Pixies allow for better root-weeding efficiency.

Pixies, a herbicide adjuvant approved for all crops

Pixies adjuvant is compatible with all types of herbicides, whether contact or systemic and can be used on a wide variety of crops, including:

• Cereals: wheat, barley;

• Oilseeds: rapeseed, sunflower;

• Legumes: beans, peas, alfalfa;

• Industrial plants: beetroot, soybeans;

• Vine.

Pixies' approval of all these crops makes It a strategic choice for the effective and sustainable management of weed control campaigns.

In summary, what are the benefits of Pixies adjuvant for your herbicide treatments?

Pixies is more than just an adjuvant; it’s a true innovation in agricultural spraying. Here’s why it stands out:

• Unmatched quadruple action: retention, penetration, soil penetration, and wetting – four functions to maximize the effectiveness of herbicides

• Bio-based technology: Pixies is made from naturally occurring resources 

• Versatility: adjuvant approved for all crops 

• Optimized performance: reduced product loss, rapid absorption, and prolonged action

With its unique triple action, Pixies revolutionizes herbicide adjuvant action. By choosing Pixies, you are opting for an effective and environmentally friendly solution suitable for all your crops.