Tips to reduce drift Dicamba

The best way to avoid dicamba drift it, follow the instructions on the label.

Although dicamba can Xtend pre-emergence applied to early flowering soybean preemergence application has advantages. One is when your culture can not not be your neighbor or, and can not be damaged by drift.

"Dicamba residual control for a short time offers," Terry Buss, a specialist in the field of legumes with Manitoba Agriculture, said at the School of diagnostic cultures Carman in July.

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Monsanto also suggests the use of Dicamba with nozzles producing thick, ultra thick so that droplets Turbo TeeJet induction and sucks air. These nozzles require application rates of at least 10 liters of water per acre.

Spray should be done when the wind speeds three to 15 miles per hour and the speed of movement of the spray are more than 24 kilometers per hour. Bar height should not be more than 50 centimeters, Monsanto said.

Farmers should not spray or if wind conditions calm chicha reversals, Buss said. The spray could not penetrate the deck and can go to a nearby field.

"Many may drift damage if they do things right," he said.

Farmers and their employees should also pay attention to what she and her neighbors are driving alone to avoid more and more, but sprinkle the wrong field, Buss said.

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You should also know intervals reseeding. Guide Manitoba to protect the great cultures in 2017, after the application of a liter of dicamba per acre Monsanto (XtendiMax with Vapor Grip called technology), farmers such as grain, corn must grow soybeans and white beans for years.

one pint per acre only cereals, corn, soybeans, white beans or rapeseed grow next year after application.

"If applications after September 1, or if the dry weather persists after application, can harvest next spring occur," says the guide. Each dicamba a spray tank cleaning is not difficult, but necessary.

"Eight ounces of dicamba solution - not the concentrated product, but the solution is in a large sprayer filled with something else kept - can cause symptoms (injuries)," Buss said. "When you leave three liters of spray solution to this ... and then go and fill spray something that could actually cause a loss of power."

XtendiMax Monsanto Technology Vapor Grip calls with the label for cleaning immediately after application and the use of a triple rinsing spraying as follows:

1. After the leak immediately atomizer spray, including ramp and lines. Do not let the spray solution overnight in the lines pen remain before rinsing.
2. Water tanks, hoses, boom and nozzles with clean water.

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3. Check and clean filters, strainers and filters.
4. Prepare a cleaning solution with a detergent or a commercially available spray cleaner or ammonia according to the manufacturer's instructions.
5. Be sure to wash all parts of the tank, inside the upper surface including. Start movement of the sprayer and thoroughly circulate the cleaning solution for at least 15 minutes. All visible deposits must be removed from the spray system.
6. Flush pipes, spray pipes and nozzles for at least one minute with the cleaning solution.
7. Repeat twice more effectively complete the steps a triple rinsing.
8. is reset diffusers, screens, and filters and separately cleaned in the cleaning solution completed after the above mentioned method.
9. properly slag steps six fifty-nine comply to all applicable laws and regulations.
10. Case drain, filters and cables.
11. Rinse the spray system with clean water.

Rinse water must be disposed of in accordance with local, state and federal guidelines.

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