End of preharvest

[Klause]

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispute-1.4191615

[farming101]

[URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispute-1.4191615"]http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/italy-canada-durum-wheat-dispute-1.4191615[/URL]

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[mcfarms]

The funniest thing about this is Ive grown durum on my south farm sold to to a end user who has a family mill in Italy. who shipped it to Italy in containers, milled it, put it in little bags with product of Italy on it shipped it back to Canada and made a tidy profit because the fancy folk only want to pay a premium for "italian" semolina flour.

[SASKFARMER3]

Wise guy WTF one litre roundup over a whole acre with water let's think about how small amount that is! Think about that. Your really not that wise!

[ALBERTAFARMER4]

Wise guy WTF one litre roundup over a whole acre with water let's think about how small amount that is! Think about that. Your really not that wise!

How many PPM of glyphosate residue is acceptable for your dinner table SF3?

[Braveheart]

The real "unwise guys" are the farmers that are applying glyphosate to crops that are too green, trying to speed up harvest. Glyphosate is not for desiccating wheat. Period.

[MBgrower]

I havent preharvested a cereal crop in over 15 years. I dont know why it is considered common pratice in s. Sk to spray on durum wheat. Ever hear of a swather?

[blackpowder]

We will probably lose it for a harvest tool.
Here, every acre of wheat not going for seed is sprayed.
After the green is out of glume and kernel dents with thumbnail. On most of the field. Not the green patches.
A valuable tool here. Swathers for wheat, not so much. We'll have to find a different chem.

[Partners]

[QUOTE=MBgrower;349713]I havent preharvested a cereal crop in over 15 years. I dont know why it is considered common pratice in s. Sk to spray on durum wheat. Ever hear of a swather?[/QUOTE

Goes for any wheat or oats.
We don't pre harvest either..post harvest leaves the sprayer in the yard the following spring.

[LEP]

Won't affect me to any great extent. But in our country a swathed is used for some canola, a few lentils and never for cereals.

The guys that do sell it for feed more often than not.

[SASKFARMER3]

Wise it's parts per million your drinking water is worse. Plus two weeks fall weather washes the plant at harvest time once.

Then harvest grind and make flower bread.

Oh one other note father use to spray in open tractor no mask and probably uses leather gloves to fill.

He will be 90 soon.

Just saying none of us know when our 15 min is up.

Killing a practice with no science behind is idiotic.

Without we would have to swath to make crop come in and most would grade way lower.

[LEP]

After reading the article it made me laugh. Italy is known for buying a 3cwad with protein and blending it. Nothing matters but price and 13 protein.

[farmaholic]

Could definitely be an issue for those who rely on it as a harvest aid. We don't, used to do some peas and lentils at times but now the peas get Diquat products. Once we had such a thick canopy of lentils the only thing Diquat did was brown the tops, what ever it touched. Glyphosate would have worked better, translocated, ...maybe slower but at least the whole plant would have died!

Timing can be tricky in variable(high and low spots) land, low land can hang on a long time after the high ground would be ready for an app.

Maybe its time to lobby for saflufenicil to be registered as a dessicant In all crops or have the MRLs established so it doesn't impede exports.

Our main dessicant is an 08 MacDon 150.

[fjlip]

The real "unwise guys" are the farmers that are applying glyphosate to crops that are too green, trying to speed up harvest. Glyphosate is not for desiccating wheat. Period.

Agree, said this many times, it is registered ONLY for weed control, NOT a desiccant. If you are getting desiccation your crop is TOO green, probably lose bushel weight too.

You are supposed to spray at the same time you could swath. We swath close to combining, some times ahead of the combine. Neighbor sprays and we combine the same time.
Weed kill much better post harvest, no tracks, less stress/busy.

[helmsdale]

Agree, said this many times, it is registered ONLY for weed control, NOT a desiccant. If you are getting desiccation your crop is TOO green, probably lose bushel weight too.

You are supposed to spray at the same time you could swath. We swath close to combining, some times ahead of the combine. Neighbor sprays and we combine the same time.
Weed kill much better post harvest, no tracks, less stress/busy.

Some guys recreationally spray like we used to recreationally drag a cultivator. Bored and it's hot outside? Come up with yet another reason to jump in the air conditioned sprayer and create an income tax deduction.

Each to their own, but labels are there for a reason.