New Products - for Jun. 3, 2010 | The Western Producer

Buhler on Feterl ground

Winnipeg’s Buhler Industries has added two augers to its Backsaver line of Farm King machines.A 12 and 14 inch version of the South Dakota built Feterl auger now carry both white and red paint, depending on the dealer and location.All will bear both the Buhler and Feterl brands.

Buhler purchased the Salem, South Dakota, factory and brand out of bankruptcy earlier this year.The new Farm King augers are built out of 12 gauge tubing, with .25 inch thick flighting material.The 12 inch augers draw from 112 to 122 horsepower and have a hydraulically controlled swing away hopper that sits 10.75 inches high. It has a 540 r.p.m. constant velocityÂ p.t.o. drive.The 14 inch version has a 1,000 r.p.m. p.t.o. CV unit and pulls 126 to 153 h.p.The hopper unit is mechanically driven in both.Unlike the other Backsaver models that depend on top-strung cables to support the big augers, these two have the traditional Feterl superstructure to carry the load below the tube.In transport, the units can have the hopper on either side of the main tube.

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In harmony, not with weeds

DuPont has released a new version of its Harmony line of herbicides. This one takes aim at Group 2 resistant kochia and cleavers as well as the grassy weeds and broadleafs that are on the Harmony SG controlled weed list.Harmony Max contains water soluble granules of thifensulfuron and tribenuron, Refine, for the broadleaf weeds and the emulsifiable concentrate of clodinafop-propargyl, Horizon, to deal with grassy weeds such as wild oat and green foxtail.Harmony Max stands apart from the Harmony SG, a Group 1 and 2 herbicide, through the addition of the Group 4 product fluroxypyr, called Perimeter, found as a component of Attain, Prestige and Trophy.Inside the 40 acre coverage case is the dry Refine SG, the EC Horizon, the EC Perimeter and, built into the Horizon, the adjuvant. It is registered for spring planted wheat, including durum, up to the fourth tiller.For more information, visit www2.dupont.com/Crop_Protection/en_CA/.

Getting totally thumped

Bayer has packed thiencarbazone and bromoxynil, with 2,4-D ester, for a grass and broadleaf combination product for use in spring planted wheat, including durum, from one to six leaf stages. The new product is called Thumper Total and the eight litre package has two containers, a suspension concentrate component of Velocity, thiencarbazone and the EC Thumper.Recropping is relatively broad with alfalfa, barley, canaryseed, canola, chickpea, dry bean, field corn, flax, field pea, lentil, mustard, oat, soybean, timothy and wheat, including durum, spring and winter, being options the year following application.It covers groups 2,4 and 6. When being applied for cleavers control ammonium sulfate should be added to the spray.For more information, visitwww.bayercropscience.ca.

Cat doesn’t scratch barley

Bayer’s new Puma Advance has a new safener that makes it possible to apply to barley up to the six leaf stage, plus three tiller stage without tank-mixing a broadleaf herbicide.The product is aimed at green and yellow foxtail, wild oats and barnyard grasses in spring planted wheat, including durum and barley, all up to the six leaf stage on the main stem, plus three tillers.Improved barley safety comes with the tank mix addition of a broadleaf herbicide.For more information, visit www.bayercropscience.ca.