Safety around bulls

[kato]

Agree. We keep six or seven bulls at any one time. We have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to them being aggressive towards us. One was being loaded for pasture a couple of years ago, and put Hubby over the fence. Picked him up and tossed him. He did not go to pasture. He went to the auction. Bulls are too big and too powerful to put up with that kind of nonsense. Life's too short. Besides, we don't want that aggressive attitude being bred into our cows.

That being said, if you get that many bulls in one place, every once in a while a fight will break out, and that's when it also gets dangerous. We don't blame them or cull them for that, mainly because the idiots don't even know we are there. But if we have a real fighter who does nothing but cause trouble he gets a ride to town too. There's no point in having three get hurt because one's a fighter. To say nothing of the property damage...

Did your bull get aggressive with you? Or was he involved scrapping with another bull? How you deal with it will depend on what he was doing. If he's only a yearling, and he's already aggressive, he won't get better as he gets bigger.

[SASKFARMER3]

It's not express sg. We have used half rate on peas since it came out even a year before on tests plots. We use half rate for peas never a problem. One note were black soil zone.

[bgmb]

Group 2 resistance is way more of a problem than roundup resistance. No money in selling roundup so chem companies have to come up with new fancy more expensive names to do the same job.

[freewheat]

The reason to use some of these herbys with glyph, is to
a) Kill volunteer RR canola
b)Provide residual control of some weeds like cleavers and volunteer canola
c)Delay glyph resistance like they have in the US from using glyph alone so many times sequentially
d) to sharpen the glyph on certain weeds it is weak on alone, like large cleavers, or really, large anything.


I used heat at the high rate on my pre-seed peas this year. Worked awesome. Holds down cleavers and volunteer canola for quite some time.

Express pro IS NOT plain Express. Pro has Ally in it, and has strong residual.

[bgmb]

i guess we since we dont grow roundup ready and use 1L minimum of roundup not a problem for us.

[bgmb]

FYI one liter of roundup will kill any cleaver i have ever come across.

[farmaholic]

Furrow, what ever became of those peas?

[freewheat]

We often have overwintered cleavers that can take a lot of glyphosate. And the nature of the multiple flush cleavers, is such that something with residual is very important.

I use at least a litre of glyphosate, sometimes 2, depending on what is getting seeded. But I never use it alone.

[bgmb]

holy freewheat, you arent screwing around

[Klause]

In the USA they are spraying up to 10l/ac of glyphosate a year.wont kill anything anymore.


use cocktails. They will lengthen the time before we have resistance.

did you know most LL canola is now rr resistant too? Just natural cross breeding.

We are going to use Authority next year on peas and then in crop basagran and select in separate passes.
rpasses.

reason for this is we use express on oats express pro on wheat. Need to keep formulations mixed up.

[grassfarmer]

I've always found that you need to keep working on bulls to ensure they respect you. I always make a point of walking up to the bulls - walking in towards their shoulder from a forward angle until they turn and move away from you. I do that with younger bulls and the old stock bulls out in the pasture. That way you are asserting your dominance on a daily or almost daily basis enough that they don't challenge it.

Raised the vast majority of our own bulls for many years that way and never had a problem. Had a couple of problem bulls that we bought in, turned nasty when they got older - both had been haltered and shown and had no fear of people.

[furrowtickler]

Are some of you guys been dreaming ???
This whole thing is a preburn glyphosate and heat !! It has *** all to do with anything else .
I have brought this up several times in the last the 3 months !!!!!
That's was just a fuked up nozzle
You should see the actual spray miss !!!
We did a yield count - 40 bus hit ..