Andale Farmers Coop New Seed Treater
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Wheat Seed Treatments
Many of you have been questioning the use of seed treatments in wheat production. Does it pay in today’s market climate? What can I expect from a seed treatment program? Well, there are lots of questions and lots of scenarios. Number one, today’s market climate may or may not reflect next year’s market climate. Number two, there are a lot of things that you can achieve with a good seed treatment program. If you are using bin run seed, you can control loose smut with a good seed treatment. There are many seedling diseases that rear their heads in cool damp weather that a good seed treatment will help you avoid. If you decide to add insecticide to the mix, you can achieve wire worm control or Hession fly and aphid suppression depending on the amount of insecticide applied. A couple of situations I can think of that definitely call for seed treating are double crop situations and no-till. Planting into corn stubble can lead to tan spot and planting wheat on wheat can lead to several problems. I don’t think it is fair to say we can completely stop barley yellow dwarf due to the fact that the aphid has to ingest the material before it kills him. I do feel it’s safe to say that you will be much better off with an insecticide treatment for aphids if there is a fall outbreak of greenbugs. A very high percentage of your yield is dependent upon the condition of your stand going into winter. I feel like with the reasonable cost of seed treating, it makes very good economic sense to go ahead and put them on your seed wheat this fall. You can drop off your truck at any of our locations. We only ask that the seed be cleaned. We are priced right and we will get it done in a timely fashion. Below is our pricing.
Insecticide
Nitroshield 1.6 ounces Aphid-Hession $5.11 bu
Nitroshield .26 ounces wireworm $0.82 bu
Fungicide
Incentive RTA $1.75 bu
Drill Box Treatment Fungicide
Grain Guard 2 ounces $ 1.45 bu
Treating Your Seed: $ 1.00 bu
Treating AFC Seed: $ 0.50 bu
Thanks for reading!
-Bob Strasner
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Andale Farmers Cooperative (AFC)
Crop Protection Performance Policy for 2007
- Grower must notify appropriate AFC personnel of any performance complaint within 30 days of application of any product. Soil insecticides are allowed 60 days from time of planting.
No Complaints on herbicide performance will be accepted beyond 30 days after application of any product. **************************************************************
- All complaint fields will be inspected by the respective basic manufacturing representative, unless the product sold as a generic formulation that comes with no guarantee. A reasonable attempt, such as rotary hoe, pivot application of .75” or more, or cultivation should be made on pre-emerge herbicides when sufficient rainfall is not received to activate herbicide.
- After a reasonable attempt has been made to solve the problem and the problem still exists, or when a crop response is involved, the respective manufacturing representative, if applicable, and a person from AFC will investigate further and will come to a reasonable conclusion.
- AFC management personnel will work with the grower to help achieve the best possible performance results. However, AFC makes no guarantee as to performance of any product due to weather or environmental conditions beyond our control.
- All complaints pertaining to an AFC sold product or service will be documented on our Agronomy Performance Complaint Form.
- All pre-emerge products must be returned by June 1st and all other returns by July 29th or with the approval of the Agronomy Manager if after these dates. All products must be in the original closed resalable containers approved by authorized AFC personnel.
*Only products purchased from AFC can be returned to AFC, restocking fees may apply.*
