We had similar to happen in Alabama when the local county start spraying the roadsides. They didn't account for the runoff and did a lot damage to river's system. Plants died and fish caught out the rivers had large sores along some dying. I even was fishing one time when they across the river bridge spraying. I immediately had to take a dip upstream to wash off the spray. I went to county commissioner about. At first he said "We don't spray over water" but I said they did do it on that particular river. He since corrected the problem by making sure his sprayers know better. Of course he is now retired and I have moved away so it is someone else's responsibility now.
Tree Damage From Crop Spraying
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Put up the list and I can advise. That's the kind of herbicides that I use all the time. I even do some cellular tower sites, although they don't tell me what to put down. They only care about the results.
I'm just going to request to the cell tower Co that in the future only certain spray may be used. Yes I raise produce for sale. Not sure how no spray zones vary from state to state.
Thanks. The co sent me labels in PDF so I have a handle on what to do. I may have them pay for a bioassay on the areas I think may be contaminated.
For our vegetable gardening hobby we compost quite a bit and are very careful about the sources of leaves and grass clipping that we compost.
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Actually, I was kinda hoping to find out what the other guys might have been using.
I'm familiar with most all the soil sterilants, but I don't use the majority of them.
I'll get the names of them for you.Actually, I was kinda hoping to find out what the other guys might have been using.
I'm familiar with most all the soil sterilants, but I don't use the majority of them.
That's the kind of source I try to avoid.
Bagged lawn clippings and leaves from urban lawns are something I always avoid, too. Damn lawn worshipers.
I just found who the local farmer and had a talk with him about it. Like a lot large farmers he didn't know I had move in. So he came by looked at the trees and agreed it was his personnel fault for spraying when the wind was blowing my direction.
Sometimes all you got to do is ask. Just like the one that one his hands took out over 100 ft of my field fence keeping my Emus in. I was lucky I found the opening before they did or it would had one heck of a foot race to catch them. That farmer personally came and repaired my fence.
But since I move to where I am now some idiot intentionally turned out my two remaining Emus. It took me three days to recapture them. The male was easy but the female bolted as I got to the gate. I finally caught her and half hour later when I lasso her in a soybean field. We both exhausted to the point of collapse. I thought I had here hog tied but 15 minutes later she met me as I got some help at the end of the field. she was still dragging the lasso so I was take her back down. I sent the help to get my truck and we loaded and brought her home. I now keep locks on the gates now.
Now for a 61 yr old to do this surprise myself. I didn't think I was still able to keep up the bird that run at 30+ mph for long distances.
I just found out who the local farmer and had a talk with him about it. Like a lot large farmers he didn't know I had move in. So he came by looked at the trees and agreed it was his personnel fault for spraying when the wind was blowing my direction.
Sometimes all you got to do is ask. Just like the other one that one his hands took out over 100 ft of my field fence keeping my Emus in. I was lucky I found the opening before they did or it would had one heck of a foot race to catch them. That farmer personally came and repaired my fence.
But since I move to where I am now some idiot intentionally turned out my two remaining Emus. It took me three days to recapture them. The male was easy but the female bolted as I got to the gate. I finally caught her and half hour later when I lasso her in a soybean field. We both exhausted to the point of collapse. I thought I had here hog tied but 15 minutes later she met me as I got some help at the end of the field. she was still dragging the lasso so I was take her back down. I sent the help to get my truck and we loaded and brought her home. I now keep locks on the gates now.
Now for a 61 yr old to do this surprise myself. I didn't think I was still able to keep up the bird that run at 30+ mph for long distances.
Bill G
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Never heard of a "No spray zone" private property is just that private property
Bill G
ArboristSite King
That shows you truly have no clue
Bill G
ArboristSite King
What are you scared off? Do you not understand CONTACT herbicides. For gosh sakes Atrazine is gone
https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000352-00622-20061120.pdfhttps://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/000432-01516-20200615.pdfActually, I was kinda hoping to find out what the other guys might have been using.
I'm familiar with most all the soil sterilants, but I don't use the majority of them.
Curious what you mean Atrazine is gone Bill.
Bill G
ArboristSite King
When is the last time you used it?
mar5690
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iput out over 500 gals this yr
About 2 weeks ago. Mostly post emergence for any weed escapes in the sweet corn Sometimes mixed with basagran. It also is in a premix I use with metolachor and mesotrione preemergence.
Oust is the one that drifted into your crop and killed plants. It's pretty bad about translocating in the soil; water carries it down hill. The Esplanade is just a really good pre-emergent.
Is that all the information that you got from them? They should have reported to you gallons of mix used on that site and what the mixture strength was. This would tell you whether they were grossly over-dosing that facility to get good control.
I don't use Oust too much, because it moves in the soil too much and doesn't persist nearly as long as I prefer. They are covering for that weakness by adding a non-turf pre-emergent that presumably does a really good job of persisting in the soil. Don't be surprised if you have crop declining to germinate in those areas next year.
After thought: I have used the Esplanade pre-emergent under a different brand name: Specticle. Same stuff, but different brand. It's OMG expensive, though. I thought it far too expensive for continued use, as the common lawn preemergents were about 1/5th as expensive and almost as good. The Specticle/Esplanade controls the industrial weed collection a bit better too, and isn't labeled for turf application.
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So, just as I feared, watering the trees may compound the problem rather than alleviate it.
I didn't read anything in your latest post that suggested this conclusion. Why is it that you keep discarding the recommendations of pretty much everyone that you ask? Discounting my own remarks (always unworthy, as I have discovered), why are you still stuck on repudiating the county extension agents?
You would need an appraisal arborist for that. It's a very small subset of the tree experts. Anything less will not meet with too much acceptance when you go to settlement.
Damn those unreliable tree guys! It's endemic in our trade. They probably went shopping for fireworks, and stocked up on too much beer.
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