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Ed Boysun |
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Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | I had some prevented plant that I sprayed with 24 oz. of Glyphos, 8 oz. of E99 (modern replacement for the old Butyl Ester 24-D), a splash of Hel-Fire and 3 GPA of water. | ||
Ironwood |
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southern mn | fe26 ha good one. Iron symbol Fe atomic number 26 | ||
clyde |
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Kochia may tumble but tumbleweed is Russian thistle. | |||
LHaag |
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Colby, Kansas | This may be a bit of an exaggeration, but maybe not and I'm hope I'm wrong, but I think resistant kochia has the potential to set back no-till dryland farming 20 years. I think we'll see more sweeps going back into the ground if we can't figure out a better way. Some guys I work with in SW KS talk about the possibility on irrigated of leaving strip-till for a while to go back to conventional tillage due to kochia problems in the RR corn and cotton. Either of these scenarios are not good for water conservation/utilization but the weed issue cannot be ignored. Lucas | ||
Kelly |
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NC KS | I can't answer your genetic diversity question but you are running light on your rates of herbicide. I would have started with at least a quart of Roundup. 24D ceased to be effective on kochia years ago and 8 ounces is way too small of a rate. If I was stuck on 24D, I would have used at least 12 and maybe 16 ounces of a 6# product. Dicamba is a better choice although some areas have trouble with dicamba resistance. Seems like low rates can't take out anything but extremely sensitive weeds any more in this area. | ||
Ed Boysun |
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Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | I don't think kochia is that hard to get rid of if you keep after it for a couple years. Seed doesn't remain viable for much over two years so if a guy is vigilant with tillage it's no big deal. It is a neighborhood deal though because of how effective the wind is at moving seeds. What you're seeing in this particular field is the result of being bordered on both the west and north sides by a farmer who grows peas & canola and doesn't use tillage for weed control. He has a very nice crop of canola this year but it is really starting to look ugly with the kochia escapes poking their heads up. | ||
Ed Boysun |
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Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | 24-D doesn't work very well on kochia here anymore. The only reason I used chem fallow this year was because of extreme wet for so long making it impossible to till earlier or in this case, plant. All I really intended to do with the spray was to set the weeds back until it was dry enough for the Flexi-Coil. Agronomist did recommend a splash of Dicamba to touch up on the kochia but I told him I'd use FE26 for that and he figured that would work too. I'm actually well pleased with how well this tank mix worked on other fields. One of the last fields I sprayed had kochia nearing 4 feet high, along with a mix of other weeds. After 4 weeks, every one of the weeds on that patch looked like they were put in the oven and baked for a couple hours on 450. Very impressive. The main reason for the touch of E99 is that I'm starting to see a few Russian Thistle patches. Not much works on thistle anymore either, but E99 does. | ||
roadrunner |
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What kind of rate Dicamba is not working for you guys??? Thanks | |||
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