Farmers Should Consider Environment
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what farmers can do to Insure water quality at the tillage
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A unique “Agritrends” on-line
satellite teleconference, in which
members of the conference spoke
via satellite to ag economists from
Ohio State, brought some straight
forward answers to what fanners
may face in the industry in the
coming years.
A special panel on environmen
tal concerns touched on some of
the aspects of the 1990 Farm Bill.
Panels on nitrate leaching losses
from com fields, agricultural water
quality, and wetland regulations
brought home some of the con
cerns farmers must learn to face.
Presented by Richard H. Fox,
Penn State Field Crop Production
Systems, Dept, of Agronomy, the
nitrate leaching panel emphasized
some of the headway that the col
lege has made in providing exact
data on nitrate leaching.
Fox touched upon some of the
results of a special 1983 study by
the League of Women Voters. This
$23 million study underlined the
need for more information on
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 15, 1990-Al9
Barry Isaacs, USDA Soil Conservation Service, speaks
about new wetland regulations and how they will affect agri
culture at the tillage conference In Camp Hill.
The
Chemical
DR. RONALD L. RITTER
Extension Weed Control
Specialist
Department Of Agronomy
University Of Maryland
Editor’s Note: These new her
bicide products were discussed
at the 1990 Mid-Atlantic Con
servation Tillage Conference.
A lot of interest and enthusiasm
has been generated over the past
few years by fanners and agribusi
ness people regarding the use of
some new crop protection
Table 1. New Herbicides Labeled For Use In The
Sulfonylureas
Accent
Beacon
Canopy
Classic
Gemini
Harmony Extra
Pinnacle
Other products such as Com
mand, Assure, and Reflex, all
labeled for use in soybeans, have
been recently introduced as well.
Changes have also occurred with
in existing products. For instance,
Table 2. Comparisons Of Paraquat And Glyphosate Formulations
Product
Paraquat/Gramoxone
Gramoxone Super
Gramoxone Extra
Product
Bronco
Honcho
Landmaster II
Ranger
Roundup
Finally, the chemical industry
has also made changes in contain
er design by offering bulk and
mini-bulk packaging, new product
formulations such as the numer
ous dry flowable products now
available, and even water soluble
packets which Beacon is designed
Table 3. New Package-Mix Herbicides Available For Use
In Corn And Soybeans.
CORN
Ingredients
Dual + Aatrex
Lasso MT + Atrazine
Bladex + Atrazine
Basagran + Atrazine
Lasso EC + Atrazine
Banvel + Atrazine
Sutan + + Atrazine
SOYBEANS
Classic + Lexone
Command + Treflan
Classic + Lorox
Pursuit + Trifluralin
Prowl + Pursuit
Sen cor + Treflan
Prowl + Scepter
Basagran + Blazer
Scepter + Trifluralin
Sencor + Dual
Product Name
Bicep 6L
Bullet
Extrezine II
Laddok
Lariat
Marksman
Sutazine +
Canopy
Commence
Gemini
Passport
Pursuit Plus
Salute
Squadron
Storm
Tri-Scept
Turbo
Latest
Weed
chemicals,
More specifically, the synthe
sis, development, and introduction
of the families of herbicide com
pounds known as the sulfonylu
reas and imidazolinones have
created a great sense of optimism
in the farming community as they
pertain to combating their weed
problems.
Many of these new materials
labeled for use in the mid-Atlantic
region are outlined in Table 1.
Mid-Atlantic Region
Imidazollnones
Pursuit
Scepter
paraquat formulations have
changed three times, while multi
ple glyphosate formulations are
offered for sale. These are out
lined in Table 2.
Paraquat Formulations
Formulation
(lbs. al/gal)
2.0
1.5
2.5
Glyphosate Formulations
Ingredients
Roundup -I- Lasso
Roundup - Surfactant
Roundup + 2,4-D
Roundup + Surfactant
Roundup + Surfactant
Coupled with this are the
numerous package-mixes now
available, which eliminate the
need to buy two products. Some
recent package-mixes made avail
able for use in com and soybeans
are outlined in Table 3.
In
Control
lbs. ai/pt
1 pt = 0.25
1 pt = 0 187
1 pt = 0.132
lbs. ai/gal
1.4 + 2.6
4.0
1.2 + 1.0
2.7
4.0 v