"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:13:47 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 04:13:35 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:15:09 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
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After a perfect year for wild oats in western Oklahoma
Round Up Ready wheat would find a place if it could be sold.
Depending on custom cutter and bigger combines have scattered
wild oats every where and normal cultural practices in wheat
won't control them.

But you have Puma available to deal with wild oats in the growing
crop, haven't you?
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I checked with 3 chemical dealers
in southwest Oklahoma. The sandy soil and high pH clays make it very
dangerous to use Puma at rates to kill wild oats. They won't accept
the
liability of spraying it.

Pity you didn't ask on which evidence they base their concerns.

There is almost always some damage to the wheat and it is unpredictable
how bad the damage will be depending on soil type and weather after the
application.

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So many words, and yet you couldn't spare any to present a shed of
evidence, that "the sandy soil and high pH clays make it very
dangerous to use Puma at rates to kill wild oats." I think you are
fibbing, you don't have evidence to support that claim.

If they could kill wild oats they would. One of the people I talked to has
over 12 square miles of farm land as well as 3 million bushels of grain
storage, a fertilizer and spraying business. Wild oats cost him money in the
field, when he buys the grain from farmers and when he sell it to the mill
or larger grain merchant. I farmed for him for 10 year and did business with
him and his father all my life. If he tells me it is too dangerous to use I
believe him. He has every reason to use the chemical and none not to.

You can think what you damn well please.

Gordon