Glyphosate

[farmaholic]

Odd story... We are making a new sprayer nurse tank set-up. Bought a trailer and a new 3500 U.S. gallon tank and was going to fill this thing to see how it carries on the trailer and determine tongue weight. Well we don't have our filter and hose set up to suck water from our Department of Highways dug out yet and I was going to go to the town water plant and fill it there(No chemical ever on this set up, so safe to do so but would never do it after the chem handler has been mounted to the trailer or once put into active service). $117.00 to fill the tank with water, LMAO.... to possibly dump it again. Mind you, it "is" Reverse Osmosis water. $1 per 25 Imperial gallons(113 liters).

[tweety]

Here is a good article on glyphosate and AMS. It is very very important you realize roundup in the states is very different than roundup in Canada.

But i'm sure many will claim AMS has a benefit.

[URL="http://fieldcropnews.com/2012/12/should-ammonium-sulfate-be-added-to-glyphosate/"]http://fieldcropnews.com/2012/12/should-ammonium-sulfate-be-added-to-glyphosate/[/URL]

Note the levels of very hard water that showed almost no difference with AMS. You can almost stand on 1800 ppm.

BTW, according to the water quality association 180 ppm is considered hard water. This is tested at ten times that level.

[farmaholic]

For glyphosate, neighbor of ours used to use softened deep well water....and a low gpa water rate....and I don't know what else he put in the tank but did he smoke weeds....even established absinthe.

[Guest]

we use 3/4 liter alone , works good !

[farmaholic]

Last purchase price.... $3.69/liter.

Anyone hear of prices rising?

[seabass]

Agree the softer water with AMS works better. We also use interlock with the Rup.

[Oliver88]

Last purchase price.... $3.69/liter.

Anyone hear of prices rising?

One retailer mentioned price of Transorb went up around 8% since last year.

[tweety]

Agree the softer water with AMS works better. We also use interlock with the Rup.

Works better then what?

[biglentil]

Heres the abstract of the article Twitty linked. Not sure how he could misinterpret the findings of the article so poorly.

"It is well known that ammonium sulphate (AMS) overcomes the antagonistic effect of cations found in hard water on glyphosate activity. In this paper we examine the effect of AMS on glyphosate-trimesium activity when sprayed in deionised water and following hydroponic application to roots of two tolerant broadleaved weeds (Abutilon theophrasti Medik and Convolvulus arvensis L) and one susceptible grass (Sorghum halepense L). The increase in activity from foliar sprays with AMS was greatest on A theophrasti, followed by C arvensis, with no significant improvement on S halepense. Following root treatment of the same weed species, glyphosate-trimesium showed a marked increase in activity against A theophrasti with AMS, with lower levels of enhancement on the other two species. "

[Ache4Acres]

Any USA farmers on here? Price of glyphosate in the US?