iPI < fter-rf If you were “We’ve been struggling with shattercane in our com for years. This year we used Basis Gold® and we didn’t have any at harvest. We’re dairy farmers and silage is important. Tbe shattercane problem in our com was lowering the nutritional value of our silage. Basis Qo\A®controlled tbe shattercane ami improved our silage quality. We harvest 6700 tons of silage per week and we want to harvest our com when silage quality is optimum. Shattercane does not reach optimum silage quality at tbe same lime as our com. When harvested with com, tbe silage quality is lowered." Bob Taylor Allen’s Hatchery ft Farms Seaford, DE “I staled off using Basis on 4 acres before DuPont bad given it a name. We are now almost exclusively on all6ooacres of com either iasls Gold® or Basis®. I beep trying all the new total post com programs on Umiled acres but they don't have the residual I need or come up 20+bushels short on yield On all our no-tiO we plan to continue to use a bumdoum ahead of foanting and follow with 14 oz Basis Gold® + 4oz Barwelon 6-12 inch com; we don’t have Pad Panicum problems anymore. Aty experience is that Uis cbetfer to keep clean no-tiM com uiib Basis Gold® Bitter Brothers post emerge wbenyou figure in the total costs of a pre- fidknved by the acres that Bridgeton, !\J need a dean-up” Marty Ross Ross Farms Ddmar, DE read aid tottwrtte label. farm wfifr farf-r (TIT to ask local com growers about Basis Gold® this is what they would say: ‘W switched ail 2ftoo acres of com from pretreatments to one trip total post and we are glad we did We actually used 3 different post programs but were mostly. 66 oz Accent + Exceed and 14 oz Basis Gold® + 4oz Boned We will increase our9oo acres of Basis Gold®+ Bamd to most of our com acres because of the lowered cost and our Basis Gold® fields were the cleanest com webaveeverbad You could tdl on toe lmbsquarters&toe M Panicum the next day where we sprayed & in about a week the only totng left green was com. In previous years we were accustomed to spraying about SffX, of our pretreated com twice, it was all one trip witbUasis Gold® -a savings we needed this year." Crmwarz fTrrFrrrn William Moore Walmoore Holsteins Inc. Chatham, PA “My dad said Basis Gold® is the best com weed control we have bod at harvest time in severalyears We plan to repeat die one pass Basis Gold® on ad ISO acres next season. One thing that impressed me is that odour fields stood a good 7-10 days ahead of other pretreated com in dee area planted at the sometime. With the cool wet spring all the pre-herbicide com seemed to be set back; our Basis Gold® com took off and stayed ahead ad seam and seemed to dry down sooner too I was phased that we fertilizedfor 200 bushel com and our results were 185-205 bushel’’ P.VPr J f? fMrfnrr "I have been faming most of my 56years and one pass with Basis Gold® is tbe best control I have ever experienced-no Vetvetk Lambsquarters, Quacigrass or Fall Panicum. The one trip Basis Gold® cut my $45 00. acre bard to control weed bill in half; we did not need to spray one acre out of the 1,400 acres of Basis Gold® a second time. Unlike what I have experienced several years the past, Basis GoW® did not bold my cot back which resulted in higher yields, earlier maturity and lower drying costs. / have already purchased Basis Gold® /r next I,4ooacre com crop.” Collin Farms Crisfidd, MD “We have a problem with late season weeds in our com Weeds like Bur Cucumber, Lambsquarters, Velveileaf, and Foxtail Sbattercane and Johnsongrass are an occasional problem This year we used Basis Gold® on 350 acres of com and our com was the cleanest we have ever bad. Basis Gold® gave us late season control of grasses and broadleaves. ’’ David French John H. French & Son Milford, DE rrTTfrrraEGff Ct(\W r. araz “I decided to use one pass Basis Gold® after the com came up because my dealer said this was better than a pre then following up post on com It worked on the Canada thistle, Jimsonweed, Momtngglory and Pall Panicum problems we have We were spending too much money going over the com twice. I used Basis Gold® on 75 acres of neglected ground where I knew my standard pre product followed by a strong post broadleaf tank mix would be needed to have clean com at harvest This 14 oz Basis Gold®+ 4 oz. Banvel farm saved me money-it cost as much as my pre treatment but we only bad to spray once for clean com at harvest. rtf frarrir What we like about Basis Gold® on our 135 acres over other total post com programs is that it has residual Basis Gold® worked on our problem weeds - foxtails, "water grass”, Cocklebur andjimsonweed. I'd definitely use more acres of Basis Gold®4g