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RR Wheat - but who wants it? (was GM German Wheat Trials...)
Dean Ronn ?@?.? writes
I've had a lot of opportunity to agree to disagree with Torsten through a few thoughts on this newsgroup, but this is one topic that I agree with him whole heartedly. In a true no-till system, like Larry had mentioned earlier, it's good practice to do a pre-seed "burnoff" before seeding wheat with glyphosate to control some winter annuals, then control pretty much any other weeds that come in crop with a product such as Puma(fenoxaprop-p-ethyl), or Discover(in U.S.A.) clodinafop propargyl, in conjuction with a broadleaf killing product. (ex. Refine Extra- Thifensulfuron methyl + Tribenuran methyl). There really is no need for Round-Up ready wheat. Like I had stated earlier in this thread, with a crop such as canola, there are so many limitations to weed control, and that is why it has really taken off here in Saskatchewan(Canada). IMO, if it's not broken, and you can't improve it, why do it???? Interesting. In the UK in arable areas canola is the easy one. A spray of dimfop to control cereals and some trifluralin to dampen down blw is all I use for nearly all fields (some sometimes need some dow shield for thistles). But cereals are a big problem, primarily due to resistant and tolerant blackgrass but increasingly to dimfop resistant wild oats. This is particularly acute in high organic fields (say 10%+). RR wheat would be quite nice were it not for the fact that I would expect the rapid emergence of RR-resistant blackgrass. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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