ti LANCASTER - There’s talk of revolution in the air, and on the ground for that matter. In recent months the use of soybean oil with .pesticides has become one of - agriculture’s hottest topics. Soybean oil advocates, speaking at ag oil days and equipment dealer seminars list soy oil’s promises to revolutionize her bicide application, aid in cutting herbicide costs and help remove worldwide oil surplus contributing to lower soybean prices. But there are signs you won’t see these promises fullfilled im mediately, according to an article in the March issue of Soybean Digest, a magazine for soybean growers published by the American Soybeam Association. Environmental Protection Agency restrictions, a lack of research, and in-fighting among various agricultural factions appear to be delaying soy oil’s full development and use with herbicides. 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To apply to,eartags tape around neck overlapping ends adhesion Can soybean oil induce an ag revolution? applicators, chemical companies and equipment manufacturers agree on soy oil’s future as a replacement for petroleum in crop oil concentrates. There, soy oil seems a cemtainty because it lacks the toxicity and volatility of petroleum. Result: Soy oil should offer longer residual effects for the herbicide. Soy oil as a crop oil has another plus. It can move into commercial channels without undergoing EPA scrutiny. “Unless it makes pesticidal claims, we have no authority,” explains C.E. Poin dexter of the EPA office in Kansas City, Mo. That means companies selling soy crop oils don’t have to spend months and dollars testing a product in order to get EPA clearance. Use of soy oil as a crop oil is probably closest to reality. Valley Chemical of Greenville, Miss., has been selling a vegetable oil-based surfactant for three years. Stoller Enterprises of Houston, Texas, has for a year been selling product ' labeled as a surfactant to replace petroleum crop oil, an anti evgporant mixed with water and a diluent for synthetic pyrethroids. Major chemical companies are researching crop oil additives, too. BASF’s surfactant division is . formulating a generic crop oil concentrate using soy oil instead of petroleum. Company and university tests during 1983 will decide label recommendations for 1984. Part of the controversy over soy oil swirls around its use to replace water as a herbicide carrier. Even though soy oil is cleared as a carrier for some insecticides, herbicides lack federal registration to use it as a sole carrier. That clearance would solve only part of the problem. Each chemical company would have to apply for permission to change each product’s label. Also, EPA regulations still say it’s illegal to apply herbicides with You simply wrap the ECTIBAN Tape around an existing eartag—either identification tag or last year's insecticide tag. With one squeeze of the thumb, the ECTIBAN is released, and the eartag is reworked, as easy as one, two. three, four. _ . IGI Americas Inc. New Ectibarr Tape 4. To activate tape, press with thumb to break ampules and release insecticide. Insecticide Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5,1983—E21 less carrier than noted on each product. Again, each company would have to submit test results showing the reduced carrier volume wouldn’t harm the en vironment. The label amendment for less volume is necessary for soy oil’s use as a single carrier. At $2 per gallon, once-refined soy oil is to expensive to replace water on a gallon per gallon basis. But it could be an option in low volume and ultra-low volume amounts of less than five gallons and a gallon per acre, respectively. These rates are common with controlled droplet applicators, the spinning cups or cages. That’s why equipment com panies selling CD As and custom applicators using CDAs are prominent among those promoting soy oil. But another use for soy oil, says Jerry Stoljer of Stoller En terprises, is to mix it with her bicide, then add the combination to the labeled amount of water. Soy oil added to a herbicide/water mixture in the same way as a petroleum crop oil has no chance to absorb the herbicide, he says. But mixing the herbicide in soy oil before adding it to water lets the oil surround the herbicide, reduce evaporation and improve her bicide effectiveness. Stoller says the method works with preplant, preemergence and postemergence materials and doesn’t require new sprayers. “We can cut down chemical volatilization and cut down on rates without going to 100 percent soy oil,” he says. “It can be used with regular equipment. You use smaller nozzle tips and higher pressure.” He claims the technique of mixing herbicide with soy oil then adding to regular water volumes doesn’t violate EPA regulations. “Labels say mix with so many gallons of water. It doesn’t say what you can or can’t put in the water,” he notes. NEED MORE ROOM? Read The Classified ovca/ Real Estate Ads AUCTION DAIRY CATTLE 100 HEAD OF HOLSTEIN DAIRY COWS 100 THURSDAY, MARCH 10th, 1983 At 11:30 A.M DIRECTIONS: From Frederick take Rt. 15 North to Rt. 26 & turn left on Rt. 194 sale site is located approx. 1 mile North of Keymar & approx. 3Vz miles South of Taneytown, Carroll Co., MD. All cows are recently fresh or close springers. 40 head of real fancy Ist & 2nd calf heifers from Monroe Co., NY. 25 head of out standing springing & fresh Canadian cows. Many cows are milking 70 to 80 lbs. of milk with quality udders. Mostly grades with approx. 15 choice purebreds, some with records to be announced at ringside. 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