Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area
What you need to know
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An extension to the Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area, effective February 2006, will help protect valuable horticultural crops.
Damage caused to horticultural crops in the Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area, in recent years, is attributed to vapour drift from ester formulations of some types of agricultural herbicides.
These herbicides can, under certain climatic conditions, vaporise and drift many kilometres causing unintended damage to sensitive horticultural crops.
The new area, called the Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area, has been named to distinguish it from the existing Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area.
The chemical restrictions that apply in the Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area will not change.
Chemical Restrictions
Chemical restrictions will apply each year between 1 August and 30 April of the following year.
Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area – effective February 2006
In the Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area, a person cannot apply an agricultural chemical product that contains an ester formulation of:
- 2,4-D or MCPA - by any means of application
- triclopyr - by aircraft or mister application.
Mallee and Mid-Murray Agricultural Chemical Control Area – established 1996
A person must not apply an agricultural chemical product that contains:
- an ester formulation of 2,4-D, 2,4-DB or MCPA, by any means of application
- any formulation of picloram, hexazinone applied as a liquid, products containing sulfometuron methyl or ester formulations of triclopyr, by aircraft or mister application.
A person must obtain a permit from DPI to use, by aircraft or mister application, any:
- formulation of chlorsulfuron, clopyralid, glyphosate or metsulfuron methyl
- amine formulation of MCPA, MCPB, 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, dicamba, mecoprop or triclopyr.
Agricultural Chemical Control Area Boundary
The combined Mallee and Mid-Murray and Extended Mallee Agricultural Chemical Control Area is defined by:
- the South Australia-Victoria border
- the Murray River to Gunbower Creek at Koondrook
- the point where Chick Road intersects with Gunbower Creek
- the Chick Road and Oldham Road to its intersection with the Buckland Road
- the Buckland Road to its intersection with the Kerang-Koondrook Road
- the Kerang – Koondrook Road to its intersection with the Murray Valley Highway
- the Murray Valley Highway to its intersection with the Kerang – Quambatook Road
- the Kerang – Quambatook Road to the township of Quambatook
- the Quambatook – Swan Hill Road to its intersection with the Dumosa – Quambatook Road
- the Dumosa – Quambatook Road to its intersection with the Donald – Swan Hill Road
- the Donald – Swan Hill Road in a south-westerly direction to its intersection with the Calder Highway
- in a northerly direction along the Calder Highway to its intersection with the Mallee Highway
- in a westerly direction along the Mallee Highway to its intersection with the Meridian Road at Walpeup
- in a northerly direction along the Meridian Road to the parish of Wymlet
- along the western boundaries of the parishes of Wymlet, Bitternang, Carool and Raak to Carwarp Road
- west along Carwarp Road to its intersection with Yarrara South Road
- north along Yarrara South Road and Yarrara North Road to the intersection with the Sturt Highway
- west along the Sturt Highway to the point where South Australia borders Victoria.
Agricultural Chemical Control Area
Restrictions apply each year between 1 August and 30 April of the following year
Further Information
DPI Customer Service Centre 136 186 DPI Chemical Standards website at www.dpi.vic.gov.au/chemicalstandards
Published by: Department of Primary Industries, Chemical Standards Branch 475 Mickleham Road, Attwood, Victoria 3049 Australia January 2006
ISBN: 1 74146 620 2.
