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Buckskinner:
Sounds like you guys are as safe as possible and glad to hear it. It's a far cry from what we used to do, no PPE and either pouring chemical by hand or a hand pump out of a drum and then our tractor we used for spraying was an International 806 which didn't have a cab. Even when the 856 was available which had a cab, both doors and rear window was usually taken off because no A/C back then in our tractors. Was a different world back then I don't think we even had pair of safety glasses in the shop....
Parnell:
An interesting conversation. My mom is nearing the end of MSA…multiple systems atrophy. It’s rough business. She is essentially trapped inside of her own body unable to swallow well, speak, move well. But, her mind is 100%. They call is “The Beast”. I have read that there may be an association with strong herbicides…which she handled for years and years doing environmental restoration work…no clear answer, though.
bjrogg:
Yes I agree buckskinner.
Not only has the equipment gotten more comfortable and efficient. It has become so much more accurate and gps has made swath control the normal.
Most farmers I know have gotten smarter about using them to. We have lots of meetings in the winter that we attend. They provide lots of very valuable information about how diseases, insects and weeds are best attacked. Thresholds to determine what and if something needs to be done and timing of applications that are best. Some are determined by life cycles and stages of it. Some are determined by size of weeds. Some are determined by weather conditions and if there’s a friendly environment for the pest. Some are determined by insect traps set up by our state organizations.
I still don’t like spraying but we try to do it as responsibly as possible. We follow best management practices set up by NRCS.
Bjrogg
BowEd:
Seems like this extended cool weather goes on and on around here.Along with it being too wet.Does'nt bother most I guess.Just the people who have to grow things.Lots of farmers sitting on their hands waiting on this weather.
This is the latest I've ever seen and I'm almost 70 years old that the trees do not to have at least leaves beginning to show on them.
Ground temperature is slow to rise this year.
It's a double edged sword in this world raising food for the country and the world,but if you want to see a real crisis be without food.
Buckskinner:
All the people up in arms about global warming, what would really be devastating is global cooling.
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