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Re: Re: Re: Super A . I want to add a sprayer w/bo
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 09, 2004 at 15:20:19 from (216.208.58.144):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Super A . I want to add a sprayer w/boom posted by Jay on May 09, 2004 at 09:49:54:
Jay: If I applied 2-4-D every few weeks I would never tell, certainly not on the world wide web. Rather than a license you may find yourself with a bounty on your head. You are the kind of guy, commercial farmers are tempted to send two guys in a black Lincoln to deal with you. I had a neighbor used to apply Roundup and let it lie there for weeks, turning brown. What better way to get the public up in arms over chemicals. In 3 days or less the roundup has done it's job. Plow it under. Chemicals are a valuable resource and tool for agriculture. They don't need the kind of publicity people like you and my neighbor give them.
Secondly, 2-4-D is a foliar spray and will work much better on a whole leaf than one damaged by mowing. You clippings will prevent a good portion of chemical from actually reaching plant. It's been 40 years since I studied this but as I recall there is only one stage of growth that 2-4-D will actually kill dandelions. I really have never tried to kill dandelions in a lawn, they are kind of like snow in the Carolinas, they only hang around a short while.
I came from and farmed in a jurisdiction where commercial farmers asked for and thought they achived licensing for all chemical applicators. After accepting our proposal the government went ahead and licensed a complete line of diluted chemicals for garden centers to handle, which didn't require licensing. Really all they did was give the garden supply business a license to charge 2000% markup on active ingrediant.
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