Muster weed control in Canola

[hobbyfrmr]

freewheat, it is not just the economics of the project.
Consider the fact that every big seed company has their canola seed and herbicide technology licensed and patented. Farmers have not choice to pay what the market bears.
These companies have done a brilliant job in marketing, so much that even if a farmer exercised a little independant thinking and chose to grow conventional canola, there is very little seed to be found. You may find a niche business in your efforts.

[freewheat]

I dunno, potash princess. By the time my
dad started growing canola in the 70's,
our soils were quite a bit worse than
what I believe them to be now after 20
years of no til/higher input farming
practices. Organic matter and soil
structure is so much better than the
powder we used to have.
IMO.

I know what you are saying, but I do not
think it is a very large factor for my
specific soil conditions at least..
putting my canola on relatively new
breaking, yes I will have some invigour
out there to compare more directly.

All I know, is that crop yields have
been fairly stagnant on this farm, and
it has more to do with hyped up seed
"improvements" IMO, than weather, soil,
or fertility factors.

I will know by fall...

[hobbyfrmr]

Potash I agree with the window of timing for the Muster.
I agree with the preseed burnoff and a clean start. That is the same for any crop, and canola.
I agree a person has to make as accurate a comparison as possible.
I do not agree with the disease pressure. In my area the biggest reason for disease is poor choice of rotation. LWeber had a canola buddy reflecting statistics that many, many producers are planting over 40% of their farm's acres into canola. It is only logical that there will be disease pressure when farmers cheat rotations.

[freewheat]

Re: the timing of muster application, it
can be applied from the two leaf stage to
early bolting, and it seems weed control
is best at the 1-4 leaf stage of the
weeds, which IMO, is not too bad really.

[BTO_farmall]

$100BuWheat,

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http://www.seedsanctuary.com/grains/

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[rook]

About 20 years ago I worked for dupont for a summer. The rule of thumb with Muster was it would kill weeds up to a loonie size. In other words, basically cotlyedons. Of course it worked on bigger weeds, but at that time the recommendation was spray early.

[poorboy]

When they changed surfactants with muster you could kill stinkweed up to baseball size. Previous to that loonie was all.
Not sure but think they switched from can plus to merge.

[hobbyfrmr]

Yes they changed surfactant to Merge. There
were specific mixing instruction on the label as
well.

Thanks for the links BTO. I never cared that much
about heritage seeds or saving them but lately
with the canola thing, and now RR alfalfa, I am
really seeing how these companies will chokehold
the farmers in the future. Next thought, what am I
going to do about it. No, BTO an automatic
weapon will not work in every situation!

[Jagfarms]

I seeded my AC Synergy Canola and started a blog if
any one wants to follow to see how it does.

Link to blog below

http://jagfarms.blogspot.ca