Assure for peas and lentils
Agriculture Canada has added peas and lentils to the label of DuPont Canada’s Assure herbicide. Assure controls quackgrass and other annual grasses including barnyard grass, green foxtail, wild oats and volunteer wheat and barley. Application is done at the two-leaf to early tillering stage for annual grasses and at the two- to six-leaf stage for quackgrass.
Contact: DuPont ag products hotline 1-800-667-3925.
Low Select rate
Rhone-Poulenc Canada has received registration from Agriculture Canada for a low 60-acre rate of Select for controlling grass escapes and minor grass infestations of wild oats, volunteer cereals and green foxtail in canola, flax and solin. The lower rate provides $12-an-acre control following pre-emergent herbicide application and where minor grass infestations occur.
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Application timing is at the two- to four-leaf stage. Farmers should follow the label instructions carefully for optimal temperature, moisture and soil fertility guidelines.
Contact: Chris Dalton, Rhone-Poulenc Canada Inc., 905-821-4450.
Tank mix for Pursuit Smart canola
BASF Canada Inc. has received registration for tank mixing its product Poast with Pursuit when applied on Pursuit Smart canola.
Adding Poast to the mix gives farmers the option of one-pass, post-emergent broadleaf and grassy weed control.
Farmers have the option of using two different rates of Pursuit with the full label rate of Poast and the adjuvant Merge. The half rate of Pursuit tank-mixed with the full label rate of Poast is recommended to control grassy weeds, redroot pigweed, stinkweed, wild buckwheat and wild mustard. Going to the full label rate of Pursuit adds control of chickweed, cleavers, smartweed and volunteer canola.
The full-label rate is recommended for heavy infestations of pigweed and wild buckwheat.
Contact: Martine Despatie, BASF Canada, Inc., 416-674-2829.
Lower rate for pea tank mix
BASF Canada Inc. has received registration for a half-label rate of Pursuit with its product Poast in field peas.
Farmers who use the tank mix can expect to control key broadleaf weeds including wild buckwheat, wild mustard, redroot pigweed and stinkweed as well as grassy weeds in their pea crops.
BASF testing has shown the half-label rate of Pursuit controls these weeds as effectively as the full-label rate, except for heavy infestations of pigweed and wild buckwheat. The tank mix includes the adjuvant Merge.
Contact: Martine Despatie, BASF Canada, Inc., 416-674-2829.
Combination lathe-mill-drill
Farm and ranch equipment repairs are easier with the Smithy CB-1220 lathe-mill-drill. The CB-1220 can be used for repairing stripped threads, duplicating broken parts, machining bushings, making specialty bolts and screws, turning and threading axles, building bearing supports, machining mounting plates and producing mounting brackets.
The multi-purpose machine can cut curved or flat surfaces, do internal or external threading, cut slots and keyways, drill both horizontally and vertically, smooth rough surfaces, ream and bore. The CB-1220 occupies the same space as a standard mechanic’s toolchest. It sells for $1,635 (U.S.).
Contact: Smithy Co., 170 Aprill Dr., Box 1517, Ann Arbor, Mich., 48106-1517; tel. 313-913-6700; fax. 313-913-6663.
