2-4D

ILLEFTY · Jun 2, 2009

The other day I posted a question about 2-4D drift and received much imformation. This morning my mind got made up. Someone in the area sprayed with 2-4D and it got 1/2 my tomatoes, peppers, some of my peas and green beans, cabbage, and all my rhubarb. I sell produce at the local farmers market. This will really hit me hard not having as much to sell. I think I know who did the spraying but can't prove it. I will definetly not be using any 2-4D on that weed patch I need to spray.
Sorry about the rant

Mark · Jun 2, 2009

I used a granular weedkiller several years ago on a driveway and the banks beside it. It came a big rain and as water and schitt run downhill, so did the weedkiller. It washed down the ditch, across the lower gravel road and down through a neighbors pasture. There was a dead zone about 10 feet wide and 400 feet long. Needless to say, he wasn't a happy camper for awhile. He mumbled under his breath about it, but due to the fact that I have spent the last 28 years running his cattle off my place....he wasn't in much of a position to b!tch about it. What little grass he loss for 3 months, I had more than made up for over the years. He's a decent neighbor and so am I, but unintended things happen. I know he didn't turn his cows loose on purpose, nor did I intend to kill his grass. I quit the weedkiller after that, and he finally fixed his fence this spring. It took me once to right my ways, it took him a little longer....27+ years.

twopop · Jun 2, 2009

call your local extension office.they are in charge of getting spray licenses.they can find out who sprayed the 24d

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2009

You can buy a drift retardant for herbicides; I don't remember the brand, but I used it once when spraying near sensitive areas. Anyplace that sells ag supplies should be able to get it.

Howard H. · Jun 2, 2009

When Dad"s & several other neighbor"s cotton got hit last year, an investigator came out and tracked it back to the field of application.

You can pretty easily guess by which direction the wind was out that day where to start looking...

Then check ditches & roadways for sensitive weeds, other people"s trees, gardens, etc, to find right where it came from...

Especially if you already suspect someone, they should be on the hook for having written records of it. Whether it"s worth pursuing them or not is a whole "nother matter...

Dad knows who did it, but didn"t want to "rock the boat", but that one day of spraying (and apparently about a 160 acre field) really damaged about 10-12 circles of cotton...

HH

ldj · Jun 2, 2009

1/2 your tomatoes???

ILLEFTY · Jun 2, 2009

1/2 of my tomatoes. Have 150 plants lost 75 and some of the other 75 don't look very good

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2009

we spray 2-4-d almost daily this time of year and never had a drift problem

ldj · Jun 2, 2009

I would be looking for another problem with the tomatoes. They are very sensitive to 24D. I would think it would have wiped them all out unless some of them were shielded from the direction the 24D was coming from, and then only maybe. Did you check all around the garden for other vegetation that had effects of 24D? There will be weeds or trees that will have 24D damage if 24D damaged your garden. If you found other damage, follow the damage and you will find the 24D source. If you see no effects on other vegetation, then it isn't likely your garden has 24D damage.

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