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RR Wheat - but who wants it? (was GM German Wheat Trials...)
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 02:25:42 -0500, "Gordon Couger"
wrote: "Torsten Brinch" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 16:13:47 -0500, "Gordon Couger" wrote: "Torsten Brinch" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 04:13:35 -0500, "Gordon Couger" wrote: ----------insert--------------- "Torsten Brinch" wrote in message ... On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:15:09 -0500, "Gordon Couger" wrote: 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? -----------insert---------------- 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. snip 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. Well, so far I seem to have thought right. Everything indicates that you do no have evidence to support the claim that "the sandy soil and high pH clays make it very dangerous to use Puma at rates to kill wild oats." If you had evidence, you would have come up with it by now. You have every reason to do so, and none not to. But further, assuming you have indeed talked with your friend and what is claimed there is substantially what he told you about Puma (and what you believe), I think there's likely to have been confusion with another herbicide (a sulfonylurea?) in your conversation. You could both be excused, since Puma for wild oat control in wheat has only recently become available in Oklahoma. |
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