Post by Hobbyfarmer on Dec 20, 2011 19:28:01 GMT -5
Went to a chemical meeting today and the news wasn't all sunshine, rainbows and lollipops.
The presenter talked about all the chemical resistant weeds that are moving east out of Kansas and Nebraska and north fron I70 at the rate of 50 miles a year. He also said there were places in Mississippi that farm ground was being abandoned due to Palmer Amaranth due to the fact it was totally chemical resistant.
The good news was that John Deere was ramping up production of new row crop cultivators. One farmer at the meeting said all the cultivators at the farm sales he had gone to in the last year were bringing good money again and were being loaded on trucks and trailers with southern state plates on them.
He thought glyphos was at the end of it's tenure and that the BT corn was already being nullified by an adapting root worm population ...mother nature has a way of surviving.
2-4D is in very short supply and most of the western grain belt is needing to use 16 oz's of 6# in many of the tank mix preplant concoctions.
Root worm insecticides are going to be a necessary evil again even in a corn been rotation very soon due to the 2 year diapause adapting of the problem bugs.
They are also in allotment and therefore short supply.
His recommendation was to use Ignite beans.
Regardless of crop get the weeds before they get over 2 inches tall even if it takes more spray trips.
The presenter talked about all the chemical resistant weeds that are moving east out of Kansas and Nebraska and north fron I70 at the rate of 50 miles a year. He also said there were places in Mississippi that farm ground was being abandoned due to Palmer Amaranth due to the fact it was totally chemical resistant.
The good news was that John Deere was ramping up production of new row crop cultivators. One farmer at the meeting said all the cultivators at the farm sales he had gone to in the last year were bringing good money again and were being loaded on trucks and trailers with southern state plates on them.
He thought glyphos was at the end of it's tenure and that the BT corn was already being nullified by an adapting root worm population ...mother nature has a way of surviving.
2-4D is in very short supply and most of the western grain belt is needing to use 16 oz's of 6# in many of the tank mix preplant concoctions.
Root worm insecticides are going to be a necessary evil again even in a corn been rotation very soon due to the 2 year diapause adapting of the problem bugs.
They are also in allotment and therefore short supply.
His recommendation was to use Ignite beans.
Regardless of crop get the weeds before they get over 2 inches tall even if it takes more spray trips.
