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Herbicides and Yields
Can a herbicide alone deliver
high yields for a grower? “As far
as any correlation between higher
and lower yield with any one
herbicide, we haven’t seen it at the
universities that I have been at,”
said Dr. Michael Barrett,
department of agronomy at the
University of Kentucky.
Barrett also has done research
at Michigan State University on
the safety of herbicides. “We found
that the leading com herbicides
look very safe in com at rates
much higher than anybody would
conceive of using. And I don’t
envision doing much more
research because that’s been the
story through everybody’s trails at
many universities.”
Dr. Marshal McGlamery,
agronomist at the University of
Illinois, said you can’t look at one
part of the puzzle to determine why
one field outperforms another.
“You’ve got to put the whole
package together-what a her
bicide will do. Yield is just part of
the str We’ve talked about its
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I OFFERING A FAIRER AND MORE COMPETITIVE WAY »
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I WE ARE LOSING YOUR SUPPORT AND WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT! Many of you 5
5 have supported us up to this point and now you are selling out because you have I
A the best of everything You have higher prices, you have contracts for a price plus f
j what the auction does, and you are HOPEFULLY getting top money lor your lower Z
X quality tobacco. Did this happen for you in the last 10 years 7 Will it happen in the I
I future if there is no auction system 7 It's still up to you! IF we get enough pounds *
f of tobacco this year we can stay open and we will not raise commission next year. i
A Some of you don't understand the auction system and therefore don't want to f
| think it is what's working for you Buyers bid up the price of poor quality tobacco X
x to obtain the priviledge to buy better quality tobacco. Once the market price is I
I reached tobacco will go no higher for that day. This is exactly the same way the *
f hog. steer, etc market works What is important is that you have the buyers jj
X together in a competitive spirit The trouble is that the auction has caused the I
I buyers to compete in the field too. This drives prices for tobacco up before the J
* next auction and we lose several of you because you've become confused and A
A wonder why worry with auction when selling it on the farm is much easier V
I REMEMBER AUCTION HAS ALWAYS MATCHED PRICES IN THE FIELD That is 5
v because it is the most efficient marketing system there is I
I TYPE 609’ Let's hope for some damp weather It is important that you strip your =
* Type 609 as promptly as you can in order to keep our buyer interest. A
I TYPE 41 We will be scheduling to sell some Type 41 tobacco for sales beginning 1
1 Jan 13. We have a tew southern buyers with orders who have expressed interest I
X in buying 41 over the auction We will also be inviting local Type 41 buyers If they I
I won’t follow the sale it should indicate to you farmers what type of tobacco to s
* farm next year If we can't sell our 1985 Type 41 crop we should be smart enough A
1 not to farm it any more. We all know if it wouldn't have been for the introduction I
I of Type 609 tobacco the tobacco industry would still not be much in Lancaster «
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Look for high
performance and what it wil do
will it control the weeds? We’ve
talked about its safety-personal
safety, environmental safety!
We’ve also, of course, got to bring
in the concept of convenience.
Does it fit his needs? Hid equip
ment? The cost is also part of it.
So, no, yield’s not the total picture.
You’ve got to have a better
package than that. ”
The eorrelation between her
bicide use and yield is effective
weed control, said Doersch. But he
pointed out two other factors that
he considers equally important as
growers evaluate their herbicide
performance; potential for crop
injury and environmental symp
toms that are often confused for
herbicide injury.
“I look at the possibility of crop
injury more critically than I do
weed control,” Doersch said. *lf I
see some herbicide injury, par
ticularly early in the season, I’m
going to be very wary and look
analytically at the yields coming
out of those particular treatments.
If no injury shows up, I don’t see
any advantage of one com her-
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return , com growers urged
“Mother Nature can, at times,
cause symptoms on developing
corn seedlings that will mimic the
effects of herbicide injury,” he
continued. “One of the most dif
ficult challenges I find each year is
trying to differentiate between
herbicide injury and injury caused
by the environment. I’ve often
made the comment to growers that
I wonder what they blamed
strange looking com plants on
before herbicide treatments were
used. I’m not saying herbicides are
always innocent, but I think many
times herbicides are falsely ac
cused of producing symptoms in
the field which in actual practice,
Mother Nature is responsible for.”
A grower should base his her
bicide performance goals upon the
“economic level of control,” said
Barrett. “We sometimes say in
a *4%
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to get the weed population down
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to see a yield reduction.”
Doersch said growers need to be
aware of which herbicides will
perform better than others in
certail soil types, which will
perform under their particular
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herbicide treatment. ’ ’
Excerpts from the videotape
symposium are being made
available to growers throughout
the Corn Belt. Dr. Jack Ellis,
director of biological research for
Ciba-Geigy, makers of Dual
herbicide, said the symposium was
conducted to help growers “pay
more attention to the inputs that go
into high yields. We thought that
the economic environment at this
particular time was conducive to a
program like this. It fits into our
theme of support for the American
Farmer.”
To obtain a transcript of the
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