Maryland
BY JACK RUBLEY
YORK Farmers who suffer
from weed problems in their no-till
fields need to realize that there’s
more than one way to skin a
cat...or a pigweed, as the case may
be.
At last week’s Mid-Atlantic No-
Till Conference held in York,
Maryland Extension weed control
specialist Ronald Ritter told
farmers that options such as crop
rotation and varying amounts of
tillage are sometimes preferable
to herbicides in no-tiU situations.
Some of the most common
bugaboos, he said, are the triazine
resistant weeds, deep-rooted
perennial weeds and perennial
grasses. Two of the most common
triazine-resistant weeds are
pigweed and lambsquarters.
Rotating from no-till corn to dif
ferent crops such as soybeans is a
good way of dealing with resistant
pigweed, he said, since more
herbicides are labeled for weed
control in soybeans. Consider some
form of minimum tillage if lamb
squarters are a problem, said the
specialist.
Dual or Lasso should be con
sidered for preemergent pigweed
control. Since postemergent
herbicides may be necessary,
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Ritter recommended hitting the
weeds early at a height of two to
four inches. Banvel can be used on
pigweed and 2,4-D works well on
lambsquarters.
Com is the best crop for dealing
with perennial weeds, Ritter said.
One of the best methods of dealing
with the perennial broadleaf weeds
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is to apply Banvel or Roundup
following com harvest but before
frost. Banvel or 2,4-D provide
effective postemergent protection
during the growing season. Split
applications of triazine herbicide
are a cost-effective way of dealing
with Canada thistle, according to
Ritter.
Controlling perennial grasses,
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receive more than a half billion
dollars this year from the multiple
crop insurance loss payments from
yield and crop quality losses
caused mostly by drought and
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E. Eugene Gantz, executive vice
president, American Association
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says almost 60.1 million acres of
cropland were insured in 1986 with
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such as Johnsongrass, in no-till
com poses problems, since no
herbicides are approved for this
application. Again, an effective
strategy is to rotate to soybeans for
better control options, said Ritter.
Where com must be planted, the
specialist recommended in
corporating Sutan or Eradicane.
Ritter also pointed out that the
annual grasses posed a problem
payments, he adds.
This results in a national ratio of
1.47 of loss payments to total
premium. Furthermore, since the
federal government will pay an
estimated 25 percent of the far
mers premiums, the farmers cost
will be only about $285 million,
therefore, farmers will receive
about $1.96 in loss payments for
each dollar of premium paid.
Much of this year’s losses oc
curred in the Southeast, according
to Gantz, where farmers went
most of the growing season without
rain. Other areas with heavy losses
included the Midwest and Upper
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this year largely due to the dry
conditions. “One of the major
problems was that the weeds were
out there early pulling the soil
moisture out,” he said. To keep the
early weeds from robbing soil
moisture, Ritter recommended
early preplant herbicide ap
plications to get the jump on
weeds.
Great Plains. Heavy winterkill
damage on winter wheat occurred
in the Midwest while Montana
growers again experienced
drought, for the third consecutive
year.
Gantz says an undetermined
number of acres were harvested
late in parts of the Upper Midwest,
which may also result in additional
yield losses.
Leading the states in total
estimated crop losses payments
are: Montana and Texas with $64
million each, California with $4O
million, and North Carolina totaled
$3B million. States in the $2O-$25
million range include Alabama,
Georgia, lowa, Kansas, Min
nesota, Missouri, and North
Dakota.
The Multiple Peril Crop In
surance Program is a joint effort
by private insurance companies
and the federal government,
protecting farmers and their
families from crop losses beyond
their control, Gantz explains.
Farmers’ costs for crop in
surance protection are reduced by
about 25 percent in direct premium
subsidy from the federal govern
ment and another approximately
23 percent for administrative costs
that are borne by the government.
In the five previous years that
the Multiple Peril Crop Insurance
Program has been operating,
(1981-85) total protection in force
reached $30.4 billion; loss
payments made to farmers total
$1.5 billion for the period.
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