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'en yeirs,'ago '10.40).! pro-
dtieerer thought in terms of
"('fie, fah t weed control.
Just •spray+,on some produce ,
or•mixtureand you're done •
for the season. Some pro-
dw.ers still think that way.
bf it's usually .impossible. •
Our weed problems are
getting more complex and
tnany, prpilucers are looking
;at three or more st.O,ps to get
good weed control..
A few weed escapes can be
subtle crop thieves that will
hold fields well below their
potential. For example, a
couple of. grass plants per
foot of corn row may look
quite innocent when the crop
Is small They; ase i11stlp
peat frgm.:•.vltlw tyiletlr. the;
corn gets bigger But they're'
'skill rn there growing
competing, with:'the. `.erop'
Those two little plants per
foot of row may cost
'bushels per acre or mare.
Most prpblems are han-
dled, but the first step is..
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t
planning. We need more' 1
people walking fields and -
taking notes. Next �lyeap y
program depends a of ddi
what you can find now. Lay
put a plan that gives' you
flexibility and, back-up pro-
cedures to handle possible,
weed escapes.
Fertilizer tonnage and
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Oink „applications have
creased cons[dera6b�y over
R p4st••ten years. Fbrt the
.me perlod, however, the
seraagga soil test values for
phdaphste and potash are
unchanged. Where did the
nutrients go?
Part of the problem is deep
plowing. Big plows set trio
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WILD WOOD WEED -A sure sign of fall Is when flower thistles spread their seeds. It seems
weeds have gone to seed earlier than usual because of hot summer weather.
(Wassink photo)
Atrazine can control
weeds if applied right
Quaekgrass is legendary
for the number of tricks used
to control' it. These tricks
include plowing two or three
times the same fall, shallow
cultivation several times be-
.nw-fore_,plarjtjpg_ after harvest
deep cultivation using ,;ride
sweeps or planting fall rye.
Some of these tricks work
some years, on some farms,
but none of them are consis-
tent enough to work most
years.
The other, alternative is
herbicides. The most com-
mon herbicide, of course, is
atrazine. However, you have
to apply it right.
We had one farmer this
year that applied 15 Kg./ha.
of Atrazine 80W. This rate of
atrazine had still not control-
led his quackgrass.
The only way to control
quackgrass with atrazine is
to apply the atrazine before
you plough. Then when you
turn the soil over you mix the
atrazine into the nil where
the quackgrass root will grow
into it next spring.
Our recommended rate of
atrazine from Publication 75
is dependent on shallow
ploughing. The type of
ploughing that is done with a
12" or 14" bottom plough.
However, as you go to wider
?ploughs you tend to plough
deeper. When 'you plough
deeper you dilute the atra-
zine around the quackgrass
Receiving
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that were buried 10 inches
(25 cm.) deep. 1 was in this
field on July 7th. The corn
was over knee high. The
shoots attached to these
rhizomes were just pushing
through the groun4,,,,Tll1.41,.
had one or two leaves.
Atrazine had been incorpor-
ated into this field, but of
course, the roots were well
below the layer of atrazine.
The atrazine applied post
emergent in June was also
ineffective because the
shoots had not emerged.
When you apply atrazine
this fall to control quackgrass
adjust your rate according to
your ploughing depth. Keep
in mind that the old 2 Ib.
active rate per acre was for a
ploughing depth of 4-6 inch-
es. If you are ploughing
deeper you should increase
the rate of atrazine. You are
trying to establish a certain
concentration of atrazine in
the soil layer that you turn
over.
This fall application must
be followed by an early June
post application.
if you applied atrazine this
spring to bare ground or post
emergent and did not apply
any atrazine before the held
was ploughed -you will prob-
ably still have quackgrass
now. On those fields you
should apply more atrazine
this fall before you plough. If
the quackgrass is not dead
roots. now it will not mysteriously
Quackgrass once estab- die this winter.
fished tends to put its The split application of
rhizomes (spreading roots) in atrazine means you will have
the top 4.6" layer of soil. in to grow corn for two years.
the good old days you could If you do not want to grow
control quackgrass by sum- corn next year, either Cytrol
mer fallow. That is because or Round -up should be used
all the rhizomes were shallow this fall
and you could easily drag
them to the top.
Now with bigger ploughs
you are burying these rhi-
zomes. i was in one field this
year and measured rhizomes
Choose bin
Do you consider operating
costs when deciding on the
size of a new bin? Many
farmers' are installing full -
floor aeration systems in their
bins. They are finding it pays
to be able to aerate at higher
rates and remove moisture
from stored crops instead of
just condition the crop with
low-level aeration. But how
many people look at the
difference between wide,
short bins and tall bins? 1t
takes less power to force air
through a shallow depth of
grain than a deep depth.
Let's look at some num-
bers. A University of Illinois
engineer, W. Peterson, cal-
culated the differences be-
tween two 10,000 bushel
bins. One was 30 feet in
diameter and 171 feet deep.
The other had a diameter of
36 feet and a -depth of 121/2
feet. To move I Vi cubic feet
of air per minute per -bushel
the deep bin needed a 20
horsepower fan. The shallow
ROUND -UP REGISTERED
This summer Round -up water soluble. Sonic grades
has, received a new registra- of ammonium sulphate will
tions, This new lower rate not dissolve easily in -water.
registration is easier on the Needless to say this leads to
pocketbook. The new rate of a messy clean out job.
2.5 litres per hectare (1
Titre/acre) only gives season
long control. For.longterm
control you still have to apply
4.75 to 7.0 litres of Round -up
per hectare.
The. new lower rate regis-
tration of Round -up must be
applied with flat fan nozzles.
Do not use flood jet nozzles.
As well, you apply the lower
rate of Round -up with a
lower volume of water. The
lower rate is 50 to 100
litres/hectare (5 to 10 gallons
/acre.)
With this new lower rate or
the regular rate the quack -
grass must have 3 to 4 leaves
and be actively growing. As -
well, there must be no tillage
between harvest of the grain
crop and application of
Round -up.
AMMONIUM SULPHATE
AND ROUND -UP
There has been a lot of
,controversy over the use Of
Ammonium Sulphate with
Round -up. 1 asked Jim,/O'-
Toole from Centralia College
about this use. Jim said that
the research results in both
North America and Europe
have been inconsistent. In
some trials ammonium sul-
phate improved the results.
In other trials the addition of
ammonium sulphate had no
affect.
The new label registration
does not include use of
ammonium sulphate. For
that reason you should not
use it. However, for your
own experimentation you
may want to put out a strip
with ammonium sulphate
beside the recommended
procedure.
If you are using ammon-
ium sulphate make sure you
.use a grade that is highly
dimensions carefully
bin needed a 13 horsepower
fan to move the same amount
of air. The total cost of bin and
fan worked out to about 3c
more per bushel of capacity
for the shallow bin set-up.
However. the energy cost to
di -y corn at 23 per cent
moisture was about 3c less for
the shallow bin setup. ki
('tiler words, because of en-
ergy savings, the extra initial
costs of the shallow bin setup
can be paid off in one year.
You may not intend 4o dry
23 per cent moisture corn, but
this example points out the
merits of at least looking at
the alternatives when select-
ing a bin.
Ron Fleming
Agricultural Engineer
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