"Tad wrote:

To the guys in the PNW, is the Round-Up(glyphosate) damage as bad as what the press is making it out to be???? and I wanted to bring this thread forward. Tad

Round-up is relatively harmless

Hi Gang
We still have not heard what has dinged that wheat up. According to the Capitol Press there is about 40,000 acres affected(witch I find hard to believe) south of Pendelton, Ore.

Apparently some is dead and the rest is hurt pretty bad. I too dought that it was Round-Up drift but that was one of the early theroys.

I hope to learn more at our next FSA meeting. If so I'll pass it along.

Bruce

Like Richard from the UK said, it sure doesn't sound like Roundup causing the browning problem. Roundup is a contact herbicide with no volatile vapors and even here in the windy plains of KS with aerial spraying the drift is less than 100 ft. With common ground applicators the drift is less than 10 ft with a 10 mph crosswind.
We have some "dead spots" in our wheat around here but it is from a combination of dry conditions, wheat sprouting and then dying, and a vicious cold weather cycle this winter.

Maybe they sprayed the growing wheat rather than the stubble!!

I have been told that some samples have come back positive for glyphosate residue and some have not. There is a strong suspicion that bugs could be causing some of the problem in some areas. It sounds like there are probably several unrelated things causing this yellowing or dead wheat.

Harvesting under very harsh conditions. Down to -20 has destroyed hundreds of thousands of tons of sugar beet and stock feed beet.




Picture of the harvester.




Sugar beet crop virtual wipe-out.




Note the white tip of the beet (10% only) is of feed or sugar value.




Winter rebuild of Simba mini-till cultivator ready for 2011 season.






Scenic pictures of South Shropshire in November.




Oldest iron bridge in the world over the river Severn, South Shropshire. Built in 1779.




Chuck, one of the longest serving members of Heidricks farms. I remember him when he was 18 rebuilding engines at Heidricks.




Joe Heidricks mode of transport around the farm in Yolo county, California.




Lola T70 - more power than a D8K weighing less than 1 ton, eventually ended up in good old U. S. of A. due to my diminshing reactions between eyes, feet and brain at 200MPH!




The one deisel Sixty I shouldn't have sold.




Cat Sixty for sale (not including the operator).




Henry J Kaisers Cat Sixty diesel. First Sixty off production line in San Leandro 1927.




Not all rotaries are equal, but the operator of the green machine obviously is a pheasant hunting man, and pushes the joystick beyond its limits for a reason (fat pheasants).

Have enjoyed this thread as much as any. Glad to see it continuing. Mark

Hi member 2103 glad you enjoy the picks, although i do struggle to get good pictures of yellow iron. Farming is going through strange times at present especially meat and egg producers are struggling to balance the books due to high feed costs and fuel prices which also effects the cereal growers. So i guess one side loses and another side gains .My father used to say one mans loss is another mans profit. We are now paying over 9 dollars a gallon for truck diesel and in excess 6 dollars for tractor diesel which makes it hard for anyone with a set of wheels or tracks? . Before i go NIF what oil do you use in your cat engines straight 30 weight. A multigrade ie 10 40 as an example or a fully multigrade synthetic 10 40 ? I have now gone to synthetic on really high mile diesel trucks and have had no ill effects only positives like quieter running engines and twice or three times the life between oil changes. cheers Atlas

They have recently released results saying that most of the yellow wheat in Oregon is probably due to barley yellow dwarf virus. Apparently there were a lot more aphids than usual coming off the corn and other host plants than usual this last fall. At this point they still don't know what the damage will be until the wheat really gets going again.

Hi guys i hope you have not contracted Barley Yellow Dwarf virus on any scale. This can severely effect yields. We in the UK spray a Pyrethoid aphicide mostly sept october and will still be effective up to end of Dec ,after which the cold weather stops breeding hopefully. This is a normal annual practice for us. I guess different parts of the planet do different things especially in agriculture .No one has more knowledge of an agricultural area than the local farmers .cheers Atlas

Here's a late model 17RD6C with D6D updates (stamped on tag). What amount of HP can we expect from this old girl? Sorry about the phone pictures.