Handling game guide
The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute has developed a guidebook to help elk and bison producers design handling facilities. PAMI says knowing how these animals behave when handled by humans is critical for designing the fences, pens, squeezes, scales and chutes that go into a handling system.
The guide is based on the knowledge of elk and bison ranchers. Its 35 pages look at all the components of a variety of handling system designs.
The Rancher’s Guide to Elk and Bison Handling Facilities is available by calling PAMI at 800-567-7264, by e-mail at cjackson@pami.ca.
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Your ideas needed
We welcome submissions from makers of new items for field, barn, shop or farm office for inclusion in the New Products feature.
Send a photo, a short product description and an address, phone number or website where farmers can get more information.
Send submissions to: New Products, Farm Management Editor, Western Producer, Box 2500, Saskatoon, Sask., S7K 2C4.
Marketing website
Louis Dreyfus has a new website for grain marketing. It allows on-line contracting for grain using real-time grain market feeds. Contracts can be made with Louis Dreyfus grain terminals across the Prairies.
Also, grain truckers can log on and bid for any posted hauling contract and invoice the company electronically.
The company also plans to add other services such as personal pages where farmers can check on their own accounts and see summaries of the business they have done with Louis Dreyfus.
The site is located at www.louisdreyfus.ca.
New tank mix
Cyanamid has received registration for a tank mix of Assert and Puma Super for use on barley.
The mix will allow for control of wild oats, group 1-resistant wild oats and wild millet in a single, post-emergent pass. The tank mix was registered for use in spring wheat and durum last year.
For information call 800-387-5073.
Fungicide registration
Zeneca Agro has received registration for Quadris flowable fungicide for use on canola to control blackleg, alternaria black spot and sclerotinia stem rot.
The company says the active ingredient, azoxystrobin, is a new class of chemistry for fungal disease control. It was derived from naturally occurring fungicides produced by species of edible, wood-decaying mushrooms. Quadris is a preventive treatment that should be applied before disease infection, usually around the time of post-emergent herbicide applications.
The website is at www.zeneca.ca.
Flip-over disc
Worksaver has a new flip-over disc for gardens and small plot work.
The FOD-15 flips over for easy movement across lawns and driveways. It fits most tractors and ATVs.
It is equipped with eight 40-centimetre (16-inch) notched disc blades to cut trash and penetrate soil. The disc gangs are mounted at a 20-degree angle.
It is 1.3 metres wide, 0.9 m high and 1.8 m long.
For more information, contact Worksaver, Box 100, Litchfield, Illinois, 62056-0100, U.S.A., phone 217-324-5973 or visit the website at www.worksaver.com.
Glyphosate option
Farmers might soon have another glyphosate product available to spray on Roundup Ready canola. Monsanto has changed its Technical Use Agreement to allow farmers to use glyphosate products other than Roundup and Roundup Transorb for weed control.
Dow AgroSciences has applied for registration of its glyphosate products, Vantage and Vantage Plus, for use on Roundup Ready canola.
The company said both have received favorable preliminary review and are awaiting a certificate of registration.
Dow AgroSciences has also applied for registration regarding control of additional weeds, pre-harvest aerial application, tank mixing with Lontrel and additional packaging options.
To receive a specimen label for the new glyphosate products, call 800-667-3852.
