Hi guys Roundup is supposed to be the safest allround vegetation remover ever and very safe to the environment and humans . I have used it on thusands of acres to no ill effect ,but i understand in some circustances it is not as effective as it used to be under certain temperatures , Tad could you enlighton us about the suggested damage. Alas

A few years ago a buddy went to fertilize his wife's flower bed and grabbed the wrong container. Yup, you guessed it. .it was Roundup:lol: Needless to say, he wasn't her favorite husband for a while even though he swore it was an accident. The really comical part of the story is that when he thought he was spraying Roundup on the weeds later the same day, what he'd grabbed instead was some sort of liquid fertilizer.

That was when he decided to start reading the labels instead of going by the shape of the can:lol:

Many years ago after my father retired, my brother and and i bought him a new range rover .which is a top of the range 4x4. well he did not beleive in buying oil and often used to help himself to oil out of the workshop. Yes you guessed it he topped up the engine with roundup because it looked like oil ? result a new engine or motor as you guys call it, at only 9ooo miles. He never helped himself to our oil again. Atlas

Atlas, from what I understand there has been a great deal of wheat killed in Eastern Washington/ Oregon from suspected drift, at least that was the last I heard. They may have since found something to the contrary, I thought it best to ask those who are close by for the real news.
It just goes to show you how good Round-Up really is, I bet the mechanics that put the new engine in the Rover didn't find any range grass growing in the oil pan. (get it??? Range Rover/ Range grass)
Tad

Hi Gang, Well I had heard there was a bunch (not sure how much so I won't put a number on it) of wheat that had turned yellow South of Pendelton, Ore. at our last FSA meeting (last week). They were doing tissue samples to figure out what it was but no one knew what was going on. To bad what ever it is. I hope it is as simple as Round Up drift and not some new disease.

If I hear for sure what it is I'll pass it along.

Bruce

I don't understand how you can get 30" of rain a year on that steep ground and not have ditches running up and down your fields with no terraces either. catskinner

15-18" is the average here, not 30".

Edited 12/23/10:
Most of it comes from Nov-May a little at a time. The snowmelt and rain in early Dec. netted a couple inches and since ground was not frozen it seeped in real nice without eroding. I remember a rainstorm during harvest in 1978 where erosion was bad, stood in a pocket and ground level was mid chest high. Had to cut around a few of those.

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This looks to be a CA tractor. It has been on the website for 2 years. The guy that has this site is pretty good about taking down the things that are sold, so it might be available. After 2 years I'd bet the price might be softer than that. Look in the Caterpillar section page 2

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Casey

&quot;Bruce wrote:

I hope it is as simple as Round Up drift and not some new disease.

If I hear for sure what it is I'll pass it along.

Bruce

I'd be surprised if its Round-up thats done it. I used it over the years and sprayed off stubbles next to other crops and never noticed real adverse affects to cereal plants, just driving a bit wide in the field will leave green stripes.

Now if it was a brassica (cabbage/cauliflower/fodder beet) then they really do not take kindly to spray drift, more noticeable with something like Gramoxone (Paraquat) which is now banned in Europe and actually burnt the plant leaves rather than killing it and not working systemically as Round-up does