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Published: June 12, 2003

Residue deflector

Straw Track Manufacturing’s Residue Deflector guides residue, ensuring optimum seed-to-soil contact and seed bed preparation.

In stickier, heavy trash conditions the deflection helps provide smoother fields with fewer straw clumps, less dragging of dirt, and fewer stops to clear straw plugs.

The Residue Deflector is a standard part of all Seed Master drills. It is a simple, tapered, stainless steel plate that is bolted onto the fertilizer knife. It deflects residue that is rolling off the fertilizer knife from the path of the seed knife.

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Contact Straw Track Manufacturing Inc., Box 3864, Regina, Sask., S4P 3R8, phone 888-721-3001 or visit www.strawtrack.ca.

Potato blight registration

After three years of special emergency use, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency has approved Quadris foliar fungicide for control of early blight in potatoes.

Quadris protects against early blight fungus, and also protects the entire plant, including new growth.

Called xylem mobility, this feature uses the plant’s internal circulation system to distribute Quadris for complete crop protection.

Quadris is a member of the new strobilurin family of fungicides. It should be applied early in the disease cycle as a protectant or at the first sign of early blight. The company says Quadris should also be incorporated into a disease management program in conjunction with Bravo 500 for total foliar disease protection.

Quadris is also now approved for use on tomatoes to control early blight and anthracnose.

For more information, contact a Syngenta product retailer, phone 800-665-9250 or visit www.syngenta.ca.

Insecticide registration

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency recently approved Poncho for registration for insect control. It should be commercially available as a seed treatment in 2004.

Poncho contains the active ingredient clothianidin – a new generation systemic insecticide seed treatment, registered for use in sweet corn, field corn and popcorn.

Gustafson will market two products under the Poncho name: Poncho 250 and Poncho 1250.

Poncho won’t be available as a hopper-box product for on-farm use but will be available from seed companies.

The products provide insect control ranging from wireworm to corn rootworm.

Another Gustafson product, Gaucho 480 FL, was recently approved for early season control of wireworm in field corn and became the first seed applied insecticide approved by the PMRA.

Poncho 250 seed treatment will control the major insect pests that attack corn seed and developing seedlings, including wireworm, seed corn maggot, black cutworm, corn flea beetle and white grub, which are the larvae of May-June beetle, European chafer and Japanese beetle.

Poncho 1250 controls the same insects, as well corn rootworm.

“In our field trials, Poncho 1250 provided control of corn rootworm equivalent to the more traditional soil-applied insecticides,” said Gustafson product manager Tim Moyes in a News release

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For more information, contact a Gustafson retailer or visit www.gustafson.ca.

Skin care

Rough Hand Repair Ointment is made for farmers, ranchers and others whose jobs cause severe dryness in their hands or other areas of the skin.

Rough Hand Repair Inc. claims its ointment can cut healing time by nearly 50 percent and absorbs quickly, leaving behind little or no greasy residue.

It contains white petrolatum, anhydrous lanolin, light mineral oil, vitamin A and D and palmitate.

For more information, contact Rough Hand Repair Inc. at 100 S. Sunrise Way, No. 359, Palm Springs, California., U.S.A., 92262, phone 760-416-2850, e-mail info@roughhandrepair.com or visit www.roughhandrepair.com.

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