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| Here’s the issue with this soybean tech topic.
Dicamba moves. “Safe” Dicamba products move. Enlist moves. LV6 moves. It all moves. It’s in the air. It’s everywhere.
Three years ago I saw mulberries on a river bank with leaves totally cupped and I know for absolute certain no growth regulator was sprayed at least within a mile of them.
Every single plant in the corn belt is getting a whiff of these products and have been since extend beans were on the market some 7-8 years ago.
I’m sorry, but everyone’s beans are smelling everything and every single road ditch waterhemp is smelling it too.
At least here in Missouri, twh is already resistant to both, as a direct result.
It’s an emotional issue and honestly, sadly, we all need to put emotion to the side and look at the bigger problem:
The biggest nemesis to corn/soybean ag as we know it is TWH control. Ask any farmers from anywhere and I think we can all agree, this is number one problem on the farm. We all have divergent opinions on what number 2 is, but twh is number 1. We’ve become so accustomed to farming becoming spreading labor out thin with big sprayers that the thought of chemicals not working is unacceptable.
These big companies know this and know there’s big money in this. And they took two very effective herbicides and put them in our hands and we broke them, as they expected would happen. But hey, in the meantime they made some money off us. It was a bandaid. And I feel bad for everyone out here now that’s trying to control broadleaves in pasture rangeland etc because us grain guys broke their tools.
And as a side note, shame on corteva for the “snitch your neighbor” letters. And shame on Bayer for the propaganda that extend outyield enlist. I have planted grown sprayed harvested both technologies on our farm each year for the past 5 years. Its parity.
Fact is, we are no different than the big companies. They want easy money we want easy money. Everywhere in America is now the corn/bean belt. It’s the easy money.
It’s not neighbor v neighbor. It’s not enlist v extend. It’s not corteva v Bayer. It’s not farmer v big ag.
It’s the system as we know it was being threatened by nature doing what nature does. And everyone needs to understand that we are all trying our best to find solutions both on our own individual farms and the industry as a whole. | |
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Enlist beans cupping