Grain millers and fall applied roundup!

[pourfarmer]

So people who do not want excess amounts of synthetic chemicals on their food are freaks? This ag world is a messed place

[sumdumguy]

I am surprised it's been allowed this long. We don't hear of any residual testing going on-how come? I think I have a pretty good idea.

[newguy]

Glyphos has helped farmers over the past.never thought it should be used a a desiccant though.oats is marketed as a health food Sk3 what do you expect.

[sumdumguy]

Round-Up not my choice of topping, thanx SF3.

[SASKFARMER3]

Again its a tool in the tool box that has helped eastern sask get a more uniform harvested crop. No sprouting issues with swaths etc.
Just saying the more they take away the further backwards we go.

[sumdumguy]

if there is no market for fall desiccated crops, then is it backwards?

[furrowtickler]

HRSW will be next, it will be a few years yet but it is coming.
I thought oats and malt have been a no-no for round up for a long time already?

[pourfarmer]

I've had oats in a swath for almost a month with 0 sprouting.

[freewheat]

I always straight cut oats and have never sprayed them with no issues.

Consumers perception is negative towards the practice. I would be ok with that perception not hanging over our heads any longer. I have simply personally not found it a necessary application.

If using it for perennial weed control, there are so many options to smash perennials hard now.

[SASKFARMER3]

I like it to have entire fields ready to go at same time. Example if your seeding 4 quarters spray same day all are ready around day 10 to 14 in fall.
It has worked very fine. Yes years ago use to harvest oats strait without.
I guess its back to the old ways.
Just hope they don't get wheat then its swather 1 0h 1.

[Cattleman]

How do you guys manage for goose or deer feces in oats if not straight cutting? Do you all straight cut, or just take your chances?

[pourfarmer]

So swath it all the same day and it will all be ready the same time?

[wmoebis]

sf3 where did you find this info? Straight from millers is it all millers or just 1?

[newguy]

What I worry about is that this is just the beginning of restrictions of roundup use.i am fine with change but is the consumer ok with higher food prices because of less production in the world.

[hobbyfrmr]

leave them standing longer. My large acre farming neighbours do some pre harvest on oats, but they will each have 3,000 to 15,000 acres of oats standing on any given harvest season.
The really heavy yields (160-220 bu/acre) might lodge but what I have seen with lifters and pickup reel, they really don't lose that much.