Times-Advocate, 1981-08-19, Page 181
ing one lb. of Atrazine per
acre. And many of you are
doing that. Putting on an an-
nual grass killer plus a bit of
Atrazine.
This low rate of Atrazine
merely gets rid of the annual
weeds and gives the twitch a
better place to grow. Iam
convinced that Atrazine,
used this way, makes twitch
grow better.
So what do you do about it?
Any fields that are going to
be sown to corn next year
should have Atrazine applied
this fall. If it is a sod or
cereal field this year, you
can put that 2.2 kg/ha. of ac-
tual' Atrazine on any time. If
you are applying it while then,.
twitch is actively growing,
then use corn oil. Not those
surfactants or soaps or corn
oil concentrates, but the
corndrum. oil in Mite 45 gallon
By using oil this fall, you
burn off that top growth and
hasten the route of Atrazine
to the twitch roots. If you
are applying this Atrazine
later this fall - say October -
there is no point of putting
oil with it. You are merely
applying the Atrazine to the
surface and plowing that
down.
That Atrazine will be right
where those twitch grass
roots are. Those roots will
grow right into the Atrazine
as soon as they start to grow
next spring. In fact there is
no reason why you couldn't
mount the sprayer onto the
tractor and spray as you
plow. Slow down for the bad
areas, and where there is no
twitch turn the sprayer off.
If you aren't growing corn
next 'year on those fields in-
fested with twitch, you can
use either Round -up or
Cytrol. For both products
the twitch must be 6 to 8"
tall and actively growing. .
The companies that sell both
products would far rather
you use them in the late
summer than in the spring.
The main reason is more
consistent results. In fact to
encourage this late summer
use. Monsanto has a sale on
Round -up. buy 30 litres and
you get 4 litres free. (They
are calling it a sale, but at
the price of this product the
word sale may be
questioned).
New product for twitch in
1982
You are getting at least
one more chemical to battle
twitch grass. It is a product
called Poast. It is marketed
Huron farm and home news
control .need
by BASF. I spent part of a
day in late July with Barry
Gordon from Seaforth. He is
the area representative for
BASF. He showed me some
of their plots.
They had sprayed Poast on
white beans and on soybeans
that had either annual
grasses or twitch grass. The
product looked very im-
pressive. It was controlling
twitch grass in both kinds
of beans. The good news is
that it will probably be
registered for edible beans
tor next year. The price will
probably be competitive
with Round -up.
The beauty of this product
is that you will be able to
clean up bean fields of
twitch without residue. You
will be ble to spot spray
fields that have just a "bit of
twitch" around the outside
and in those low spots.
Now. it has a couple of
drawbacks. The first is that
it does not give dramatic
kill.
The plants remain green
even though they are dead.
The second is that it only
kills twitch grass that is up,
That means if you plan on
using it next year don't plow
deep this year. If you bury
those rhizones 8" Ieep-this
fall. next year many of the
plants will not emerge until
late in the season. Poast will
not control twitch that is not
up.
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Times -Advocate, August 19, 1981
Search for conservation winner, detail weed
We are looking for Huron
County land owners who
hayemanagedtheir farms to
conserve soil. water and
other natural resources.
Such management practices
may involve erosion control
(grassed waterways. proper
tillage. crop rotation etc.)
stream improvement
(buffer zones. tile outlet
protection. ditch bank
stabilization. etc ) woodlot
management. windbreaks
and reforestation and
manure management
Individuals or groups
wishing to nominate a can-
didate should send the
nominee's name and address
by August 31. 1981. to
Conservation Award Com-
mittee. Ministry of
Agriculture and Food. Box
159. Clinton. NOM ILO
John Heard. Assistant
Agricultural ltepresen-
t.anve
Perennial weed control in
August and September
To everything there is a
season :\ time to sow. a
time to reap Or so a popular
song writer once wrote. If he
knew much about crops he
would have added a few
more lines He would have
written that late summer -
early tall is a time to control
perennial weeds - especially
bindweed and twitch grass.
Now. there are some of
you who know this treatment
works. but not all of you.
Simon DeWitt of the Dublin
area knows it works. Last
year he had a field of wheat
and a terrific stand of
bindweed. The bindweed
didn't hurt his wheat much.
but he was afraid of what it
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would do to the white beans
this year.
So Simon wanted to know
what to do. I told him to cut
the wheat and then wait for
the bindweed to come back
into bloom. 'Then spray with
either Kilmor or Dicamba.
Simon wanted to know which
was best I told him that the
researchers were a bit divid-
ed on the issue. but they
collectively thought Kilmor
would do a better job.
He asked me what I
thought and I suggested
Why don't you run your
own test 1)o ane -half of the
field with Kilmor and the
other halt of the field with
Dicamba He spayed
Dicamba at one gallon per 8
acres and Kilmor at one gal.
per 10 acres. I said the main
thing was to wait as long as
possible into September
before spraying. He had to
wait until the bindweed was
in late bud or early bloom.
On the other hand, if he
waited too late and had an
early killing frost. there
would not be enough good
weather to let the plants
translocate the herbicide to
the roots
Well. last year that first
two weeks of September,
Simon got quite anxious. He
would call the office and ask
"Is it ready to spray?" I
would ask him if the
bindweed was in bloorn. He
would say no and then worry
some more. Three or four
days later he would call
again - same conversation.
Finally. about the 15th of
September the t dweed
came back into bloorn and he
sprayed.
Last week (August llth) I
walked Simon's bean field.
comparing the two
treatments. He has at least
90:71 control of the
bindweed - possibly 95'
control. And there was no
difference between the side
sprayed with Kilmor versus
the side sprayed with
Dicamba.
This year Simon has
another field: Another
bindweed problem, but with
a different slant. This year
he sowed red clover with the
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nitrogen on his wheat. The
red clover is about 2 to 4"
high now. The bindweed is
quite general throughout the
field Simon is concerned
that when he sprays the
bindweed, he will also kill
the red clover. I tried to
lessen Simon's concern by
telling him that if this
September is the same as
last year. his bindweed will
bloom again about
September.
That will give his red
clover a good six weeks of
growth after harvesting the
wheat This should give him
80 to 90 benefit of his red
clover. True• he will not get
the full benefit of his red
clover. but he will certainly
get enough value to pay for
his seed. Also, the bindweed
can be a nuisance next year
in the beans, so he has no
choice He has to spray it
this September.
Twitch grass getting worse
You know• this twitch
grass problem is worse now
in Perth and Huron counties
than when I came here nine
years ago 1 don't want to
take all the credit for that,
but it is a problem. I am now
convinced that you can make
twitch grow better by apply -
MIDDLESEX QUEEN IN -PARADE — Karen Peterson, 1981
Middlesex Queen of the Furrow participated in Sunday's
Lucon Fair parade. She is shown above with Middlesex
Plowmen's Association official Claire Paton of Lucon.
Chain stores in this coun-
try carry so much clout that
few independent food stores
can compete with any
degree of success.
1t seems a shame that so
many small stores have been
and are being forced out of
business. The so-called con-
venience stores such as
Mac's Becker's, Short Stop
and Kwikie Minit Markets
are part of chain store com-
petition.
The big brothers of the
food business have invaded
every sector. Dominion
Stores has a chain of con-
venience stores and a chain
of Thrift stores. Soon, there
will not be a store type or
even a decent location that
does not have some type of
chain connection.
Which is not to say that
what is happening is illegal
or even a plot -to back the
consumer into a corner from
which she he rnust buy from
a chain.
It is pure and simple: it is
competition.
Steinberg's I Miracle Food
Matto. the Oshawa Group
(IGA. Food City. Towers,
Dutch Boy(. Provigo (M
Loeb Ltd.. IGA). or Domi-
nion Stores (Hi -Way
Market) or Loblaws (Zehrs)
are in business to make
money. By opening thrift
stores. convenience stores
or super -sized super-
markets, they are trying to
provide the buying public
with all the variety that con-
sumers constantly demand.
What I can see happening
in the next decade is big
battles either between or
among the chain stores.
CO.Op
They have already ex-
hausted their growth
possibilities by forcing the
small stores out. Eventual-
ly. they are going to clash
head-on with each other.
Loblaws and Dominion are
already slashing at each
other's markets, with stores
in many cities and towns
positioned for battle.
Rumors abound throughout
the food chain and one big
rumor is that Argus Cor-
poration. or whatever they
call themselves now, would
like to sell Dominion but
nobody has the necessary
bucks to swing such a
massive deal. At least, no
one already in the food
business. A & P, once a
power throughout some
parts of Canada, is owned by
a German supermarket
company and seems to have
lost ground in recent years
or is certainly not expanding
visibly. Canada Safeway,
with such a stranglehold on
the Prairie Provinces, is
1.•.S owned and would have
trouble expanding because
of the Foreign Investment
Review Agency.
Perhaps the Weston em-
pire. owners of Loblaws,
could swing the deal but as
mentioned, they have too
many stores in direct com-
petition with Dominion to
make the purchase seem
viable in the long haul.
Of course, the Thomson
money- Simpsons, the Bay,
Zellers, about 50
newspapers. a travel agen-
cy. a trucking firm. North
Sea oil interest and so on -
could possibly swing it. But
such concentration of
economic power would, I
think. be impossible at this
time.
The possibilities are not
endless but simply taking an
outsider's look indicates that'
the chain stores have con-
siderable power in this coun-
try and could have more.
Until such time as effec-
tive competition laws are
enacted in Canada, the con-
centration of power, es-
pecially in the food business,
will continue.
Yet governments hold ex-
pensive, exhaustive hearings
such as the recent judicial
inquiry into food industry
rebates. discounts and
allowances. Such as the re-
cent series of reports by the
Economic Council of Canada
on regulations in the Can-
dian economy.
I think those economic
eggheads galloped off in the
wrong direction. Instead of
taking pot shots at farm
marketing boards, the ECC
should have a complete
and compre�ve study on
competition laws in Canada
instead of trying to cut
marketing boards.
Competition is still the life
blood of trade. I'm con-
vinced that if competition
can be preserved and even
encouraged right across the
whole Canadian economy,
then farmers would be the
first people to return to a
free market system.
They could thrive without
the protection now afforded
by marketing boards: Until
such time as that happens,
they need these boards. They
have fought long and hard to
get them.
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END THE SEASON WITH A BOOM!
You and quackgrass have an on-going
fight. And at harvest time you can see
exactly where you're losing the battle.
Those patches of quackgrass are rob-
bing you of your yield. Plus they make
combining very difficult. Worst of all, when
you plow the`quackgrass under... it's just
waiting to reappear next spring.
This fall, try something different. Use
Roundup®... and get a long-term control
program for quackgrass.
It's sure and easy. After your crop
comes off, let quackgrass regrow the
proper stage and spray with Roundup,
Wait five days and then continue normal
fall plowing. (You can treat even after
a mild frost if quackgrass is actively
growing.)
If harvest is late and you don't get good
regrowth this fall ...don't plow. Leave the
quackgrass alone so you can treat it next
spring before planting.
When used in conjuction with your nor-
mal seedling weed control program, you
can control quackgrass for up to three
years:
So this fall win the war against quack -
grass. For effective control of quackgrass
...nothing works like Roundup.
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