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PJBROWN

04-19-2006 16:18:10

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Any of you guys plant roundup ready corn? If so what are the good points of it and the bad ones ? Can you spray at the same time you plant? and do you have to spray more than once??? Thanks.

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bradk

04-19-2006 20:03:33

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to PJBROWN, 04-19-2006 16:18:10

We use RR beans and Libery-link corn in rotation.Avoids resistance to weeds and no volunteer corn in beans.One spray of Roundup in beans @ weed height of 4-6" and one spray of Liberty in corn along with cultivating.The best farmers and agronomists will tell you to AT LEAST cultivate corn.~brad

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barnrat

04-19-2006 18:07:18

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to PJBROWN, 04-19-2006 16:18:10

I plant Roundup Ready corn silage only hybrids. I like it cause spraying is cheaper $25/acre compared to $40/acre for convetional spraying. I've gained an average of 2 tons silage yield. I'm alos have a much much higer quality silage equals more milk and less purchased grain.

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edchainsaw

04-19-2006 17:49:43

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to PJBROWN, 04-19-2006 16:18:10

one other con besides possible sales problems (thats not much of one anymore)

is the volunteer corn the next year... have to use another type of chemical to get that stuff-I know thats not much of a con but it is one.

another is over using a good thing... leading us to super weeds.. like the way the weeds have adapted to ALS type chemicals

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Steven@AZ/ND

04-19-2006 17:21:44

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to PJBROWN, 04-19-2006 16:18:10

We planted roundup ready corn for the last few years. Works really good to clean up a field!

Usually sprayed it when it was about 6 inches tall, then again when it would just brush the axle on the 1086. Keep in mind, we basically use it to clean up a bad field (cheat grass, quack grass, other hard to kill garbage).

Never sold the corn so don't know about those issues. Always silaged some of it, picked a little, and combined a little. Makes for nice feed for the cattle. :o)

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04-19-2006 17:02:51

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to PJBROWN, 04-19-2006 16:18:10

You also need to check with your local elevator, becasue the genetics of RR corn has been changed, some elevators might be a liitle hesitant about taking it or BT corn. Just some more thoughts on genetically altered seed.

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Nebraska Cowman

04-19-2006 16:39:10

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to PJBROWN, 04-19-2006 16:18:10

No, and yes. You could spay at the same time you plant but why? The idea of roundup ready is that the spray won't kill the corn. If you spray before it comes up you don't need rr seed. On notill the ground might be sprayed before planting to kill anything growing, then later a 2nd spraying if weeds come back. On tilled ground you plant then wait a month or so for the weeds to start and hit them with roundup. Mostly then the corn will stay ahead of the weeds but sometimes you will need a 2nd app.

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Tex Aggie

04-19-2006 17:19:47

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Re: Roundup Ready corn in reply to Nebraska Cowman, 04-19-2006 16:39:10

Another thing is the stage of corn growth it is in. Using Roundup WeatherMax, Roundup Ready 2 Corn allows you to spray to an increased crop height of about 48" and weeds of about 20" tall. It gives you a better opportunity if you miss sprayings due to weather, etc. You have to use drop nozzles from 30-48" corn. Regular RR Corn just doesn't give you the same opportunity for spraying to a more mature crop.

There are a lot of options, especially when you couple RR with the Insect Resistance of Yield Guard Corn Borer and Corn Rootworm. Just make sure you check the seed bag for specific requirements and make sure people know that it is RR corn when you sell it. Sometimes it matters wherever you are as to who the elevator sells its grain to, due to the whole world and the EU being scared of GM crops. A bunch of crap.

This website should help, its a pdf file. Learn about refuge acres as well. We need to use them. My 2 cents worth.

http://ahpap518.landolakes.com/stellent/groups/public/documents/webpage_croplangenetics/pubs_dev009171.pdf.

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