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Atrazine can damage crops,.
At the winter meetings I
was asked numerous times
about growing certain crops
if atrazine was applied the
previous year The research
that has been done is under
controlled conditions. The
recommendations that
resulted from this reasearch
has lots of C.Y.A.
statements Cover Your Ac-
cidents By this l mean the
statements are very grey.
The statements state - (1)
"Generally no damage to
barley it 2 lbs. of actual
atrazine was applied the
previous year. Further we
say - 121 you can expect
damage to alfalfa and white
beans if you apply more than
1 lb. the previous year.
These C.Y.A. statements are
included because of overlap,
wrong rates. interactions
with other herbicides,
carryover from previous
years and just poor applica-
tion techniques.
The other factor that
enters is breakdown rate.
Breakdown rate is affected
Neither wind, nor rain
not sleet, nor hail
shall worry the farmer
that has crop insurance.
cZr? Crop Insurance.
Between you and nature.
DONALD WEIGAND
RR 1
Dashwood Ont.
NOM 1 NO
by weather. tillage and soil
pH.
Atrazine is broken down
by the little critters in the
soil that we call micro
organisms. These guys are
so small you can't see them.
The amount of atrazine that
they break down depends on
the soil conditions that they
live in. The quantity of rain-
fall you get affects your
atrazine carry over.
However. atrazine does not
wash down through the soil.
But if you get plenty of
rain during the summer
atrazine is broken down.
This combination of
moisture and warmth is a
good environment for the
micro organisms. This good
micro organism environ-
ment means they break down
more.
Depth of tillage affects
atrazine. If you plough deep,
say more than 8 inches, you
are burying the unused
atrazine. The deeper this
atrazine is buried the slower
the micro organisms will
work. they need air and
warmth. Deeper in the soil,
the less there is of both.
If atrazine is put on as two
splits you have 2 layers of
atrazine. This also lessens
the atrazine residue because
there is less chance of a
sampling is recommended for fields
heavy dose at one root zone.
Soil pH affects atrazine; es-
pecially at pH's above 7.5
which will include a good
portion of Perth and Huron
Counties. The atrazine that
is left at high pH's is more
available and thus apt to do
more damage.
CORRYOVER ATRAZINE
FROM PREVIOUS YEARS
A sleeper factor is the
rate applied the previous
year. Atrazine generally
breaks down at 80 to 90(. If
you applied 1 lb. atrazine in
1980 you would be safe to
plant beans or alfalfa in 1981.
However, if you applied 2
lbs. of atrazine on the same
field in 1979 there would be .2
to .4 lbs. active carryover
into 1980. This now changes
the picture. Now you have
1.2 to 1.4 lbs. active atrazine
in 1980 and this would
probably damage beans or
alfalfa in 1981. If you are
border line for rates you can
have your field checked.
Take samples from three
areas in the field. This
sampling technique should
cover the variables in the fil-
ed that affect breakdown.
Take one sample from the
headland, one from a high
area and the other from an
average area.
Each area should be about
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When it blows, it will not
only hit the roof but go right
through the ceiling.
Potato farmers in Prince
Edward Island are being
warned that last year's high
prices for a record crop was
a fluke. They are being told
to cut back on production
and save what they made
last year for a lean year
ahead.
Quebec hog farmers and
broiler chicken producers
are being told that the fair
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year are going to bottom out
this year.
Ontario farmers, especial-
ly beef and hog producers,
are suffering record -high
bankruptcies. They are cry-
ing for relief to senior
governments to stop high in-
terest rates. `A group in
south-western Ontario are
calling for the resignation of
Agminister Lorne Hender-
son.
Western farmers are
watching MO land blow
away in spring dust storms
reminiscent of the Dirty
Thirties.
They have also been warn-
ed of impending droughts
that could see their crops
wither to nothing.
The concern is spreading
to almost every aspect of
agriculture across Canada.
To make matters worse in
P.E.I. concern is growing
that the giant K.C. Irving -
owned conglomerate will be
given permission to acquire
9,000 acres of land at
Kensington- Cavendish to
grow more potatoes to feed
its processing plant. The
fears, of course, are valid
since independent farmers
feel Irving interests would
use the extra land as a
leverage against the little
man.
The Kensington -Cavendish
ioperation. to be fair, has
been a losing operation for
former owners. The Irving
people are trying to make it
profitable and much money
has been spent to improve
the product. Improvements
mean moI'e than 300 jobs on
the Island and that cannot'be
frightened away.
But the unmistakable
signs of a rural uprising are
there for every one to see.
Farmers are unhappy.
Beef farmers have been in
deep trouble for more than
half a decade. They have
steadfastly refused to
organize a marketing board
preferring to remain
staunch free enterprisers.
One cannot help but admire
their tenacity, but the
writing is on the wall.
Farm bankruptcies in On-
tario alone increased by 91
percent last year and this
year doesn't seem to be
much better. In other
businesses. bankruptcies in-
creased by only 18 percent.
Foreclosures are also in-
creasing and the federation
of agriclture estimates
foreclosures are 10 times
higher than bankruptcies.
I have related two or three
horror stories here recently
about farmers being unable
to get enough money to put
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Some younger farmers are
paying huge interest debts.
Even the usually non-farm
oriented Globe and Mail
carried a story recently
about Brian Ireland from
Teeswater, a hard-working,
respected farmer, who is
paying $1,000 a week in in-
terest charges; of Don
Morrison of Lucknow who
paid $30,000 last year in debt
charges; of Glen Smith, a 24 -
year -old
farmer from Troy
who can't sell out because
the bank beat him to it by
Please turn to page7A
one acre in size and take
about 15 subsamples from
each area. Send these to the
Pesticide Residue Lab at the
University of Guelph. Ask
them for an atrazine residue
test.
An equally effective
method is to grow the crop in
- the soil sample yourself.
Collect the soil as before.
You will need about a gallon
of soil from each area.
'Divide each sample into two.
To l of each sample add a
teaspoon of activated char-
coal. This will tie up the
atrazine. Now plant the
beans or whatever in each
sample.
After they are well es-
tablished let the soil dry'out.
This puts extra stress on the
crop. If there is atrazine
residue you should see some
whitening of the leaves.
After they turn a bit white,
water again and see if you
can pull them through. If you
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CONSI STENT
YIELD POTENTIAL
As Shown By Local Proof of Performance
Wayne Ratz RR 3 Dashwood
Hybrid
G4065
G4036
G4042
G4141
G4195
Pickseed 4944
Pioneer 3901
Pioneer 3906
% Break % Moist Av/Acre Rating
36 20 95 4
26 21.6 85.5 7
14 25.5 88.5 5
14 27.6 121 2
20 25.8 103.7 3
19 25.6 86.4 6
10 28.6 125. 1
10 28 125.8 1
John Elder RR 1 Dashwood
Broken Stalks
Per 100 ft. % Moist
27 25
9 23.4
19 23
3975A 43 21.2
25 21
43 19.3
58 20
Hybrid
Pioneer 3901
Pioneer 3906
G4141
Pioneer
Pioneer 3950
G4036
G4042
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RR 3 Dashwood
237-3307 or 237-3377
Av/Acre Rating
117.16
114.71
117.39
105.39
106.89 4
95.8 7
97.84
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control along
with higher
corn yields?
Then Lasso® herbicide plus atrazine is the smart choice.
A tank mix of Lasso plus atrazine gives excellent control
against weeds like crabgrass, fall panicum, barnyard -
grass and foxtail.4It also controls smartweed, common
ragweed, lambsquarters, mustard, pigweed and
many other broadleaves. All with reduced
carryover, too.
And Lasso gives you a choice of
application methods for effective results.
You can go with either shallow
incorporation or surface application.
You can shallow incorporate Lasso into
the top five centimetres of soil, or you can surface apply
Lasso within 5 days of your last tillage trip to get more
dependable performance year in and year out.
Best of all, using Lasso plus atrazine helps you net a
bigger yield.. which adds up to a bigger,
healthier profit. And that is really smart!
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When you choose Lasso plus
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