Many years ago I was working in our large garden which is now all sweet corn. Large spray vehicle from coop came to spray the field next to me. RR corn. I could smell it. I left came back out later.
There have been issues of spray drift, one I have seen last few years is dicamba. I belive need special training for dicamba. For use with soybeans
I have weeds in grass by barn some other areas. Whats new? I could use 2 4 d which will not hurt grass but kill broadleaf. There are some other methods, aerate and seed try choke out the weeds, soil test maybe needs ph balance, low on nutrients. Anyway I dont spray because of the chickens and my well. Many herbicides are systemic and the chickens eat the grass and weeds.
I cover crop cerial grain (winter rye) weed control, green manure, erosion control. Also winter rye will sprout and grow at low temperatures and gives something for the deer.
I grow hybrid sweet corn so I use a restricted use prepant herbicide. As far as the research I have done the corn plants do not take up the herbicide. I have not been able to find total conclusive data, best I can find. RR sweet corn will take up the glosphate (systemic), RR alot more expensive for seed. Though sweet corn from RR sweet is said to be safe, I have always wondered by the time there is sweet corn on the plant how much glosohate is in the plant yet ( if any) and if any glosphate is in the corn ear itself? Cant find any information.( probably some somewhere I gave up)
Farmers do use glosphate sometimes for burn down, oats etc. Sometimes harvesting weather, etc The glosphate burns down the oates and they dry faster for faster harvesting. This is why finding more glosphate in cerial grains and finding glosphate in cerials at the store.
Also as a note RR corn being sprayed is usually a mixture of different herbicides., due to the fact herbicide resistant weeds.
My thought on the topic hericides. I dont use insecticides and in the fall my sweet corn will have earworms at times. I lose 10 to 15 percent business, I show people the worms. So they know what they are getting.
There have been issues of spray drift, one I have seen last few years is dicamba. I belive need special training for dicamba. For use with soybeans
I have weeds in grass by barn some other areas. Whats new? I could use 2 4 d which will not hurt grass but kill broadleaf. There are some other methods, aerate and seed try choke out the weeds, soil test maybe needs ph balance, low on nutrients. Anyway I dont spray because of the chickens and my well. Many herbicides are systemic and the chickens eat the grass and weeds.
I cover crop cerial grain (winter rye) weed control, green manure, erosion control. Also winter rye will sprout and grow at low temperatures and gives something for the deer.
I grow hybrid sweet corn so I use a restricted use prepant herbicide. As far as the research I have done the corn plants do not take up the herbicide. I have not been able to find total conclusive data, best I can find. RR sweet corn will take up the glosphate (systemic), RR alot more expensive for seed. Though sweet corn from RR sweet is said to be safe, I have always wondered by the time there is sweet corn on the plant how much glosohate is in the plant yet ( if any) and if any glosphate is in the corn ear itself? Cant find any information.( probably some somewhere I gave up)
Farmers do use glosphate sometimes for burn down, oats etc. Sometimes harvesting weather, etc The glosphate burns down the oates and they dry faster for faster harvesting. This is why finding more glosphate in cerial grains and finding glosphate in cerials at the store.
Also as a note RR corn being sprayed is usually a mixture of different herbicides., due to the fact herbicide resistant weeds.
My thought on the topic hericides. I dont use insecticides and in the fall my sweet corn will have earworms at times. I lose 10 to 15 percent business, I show people the worms. So they know what they are getting.
