Volunteer RR canola

[freewheat]

It is on the farmer. What if it were
volunteer yellow mustard? Oats, Flax?
Then what?

I make screw-ups all the time, and I do
not blame monsanto, the former farmer,
or the landlord. I guess I don't get
it???

Not properly scouting or anticipating
something is unfortunately not anyone's
fault but my own. I wish I could hold
the former owner of some land I bought a
few years back, liable for the low
fertility, weed infested land.

Regarding leaving it til harvest, it is
rare that a volunteer crop amounts to
much...

[wd9]

The one with the poorest lawyer?

[mcfarms]

Bromoxynil if it is grasses and alfalfa if there is cicer milkvetch and other legumes no or silage your choice.

[mcfarms]

Basagran maybe too haven't had much experience with it, have use Pardner each time we rotate hay under the irrigation though usually with a barley cover crop in the mix.

[saskshafe]

Sounds like it is an issue for you because it may
be rr canola. That fact is irrelevant because it is
not the technology that is causing you the issue.
Treat it like it is wester canola in the forage and
the end result will be exactly the same!

[ado089]

If he wants to take the canola to crop
he can. Contact Monsanto and pay the
tech fee. This would alow him to spray
roundup without infringement of the
paten. They can't get you for having
weeds, it's when you knowingly use the
technology that causes issues. As for it
being there in the first place, it's a
weed and someone dropped the ball on the
Agronomy, that is not Monsanto fault.
MCPB is gentler on alfalfa, I've also
used express pro to rescue new forage
stands, not timothy though. If the
canola is too big it may not work that
good though.

[ado089]

Pursuit is another option, but may set
the grass back a bit. 1/3 rate is lots
to kill canola.

[Lifer]

He/She could also blame the combine
manufacturer, swather manufacturer,
previous operators, forage seed ......

Is it certain that the seeds planted
aren't going to germinate? From what you
shared I would mow the field but I like
the silage idea too. I have used Canola as
a cover crop and the hay crop the
immediate year after wasn't very good.

[grassfarmer]

I don't have a dog in this fight, just curious as to the
views on where the responsibility lay.

I guess the weather conditions played a part too - the
hay was seeded early (mid May) without a cover crop
as good practice recommends but then it didn't
germinate until recently as it was too dry - the same
is true of the canola so if they had waited to control
weeds it would taken until the last week or so which
would have been late to seed the hay.

Maybe something to bear in mind when saying that
land rental is too expensive? If the owner loses part
or all of his crop potential the year following a rental
year due to a crop or practise the renter used the
previous year maybe the renter should have paid 1.5
years rent instead of 1 years?

[freewheat]

It is called farming, grassfarmer, there is always a risk no matter
what you do. If this guy can not own up to HIS responsibility and his
risks, why did he decide to be a know it all and farm it himself,
when he could have rented it out to some dumb bloke with ZERO RISK???

Round here, there are always these old farts who re-start farming
when they think there is money in it, only to find sheesh, rental
income was stress free, risk free, and much simpler...

HE decided to seed it to grass. HE should be responsible and realize
it is a new year, a new farmer. A farmer who should take some
responsibility.

JMHO. But what is with trying to pawn this off on someone else?