Cotton farming.

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Cotton farming.

Postby Wildfowler » Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:52 pm

What is the name of the cotton defoliant they are spraying this time of the year? It has a very distinctive odor and I do not find it unpleasant at all.

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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby donia » Wed Sep 28, 2016 6:36 am

takes you back to grade school times when the "townies" would drop out like flies from the odor (custodians kept the pink sawdust puke picker-upper stocked during fall defoliation)...but the farmers' kids and country kids carried on like clockwork. i've always loved the smell of a crop duster airstrip and get deeply nostalgic (from the smells) when headed west coming off of the big hill into g'wood this time of year through gin shutdown....defoliant to fresh picked/ginned cotton dust lingering in the air.

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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby hntrpat1 » Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:02 am

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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby dukluk » Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:15 am

DEF
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby Deltamud77 » Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:20 am

It reminds me of high school football...riding the bus in the Delta...I cannot smell cotton defoliant and not think of riding in a yellow school bus on the way to play someone in the old North AAA.
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby Wildfowler » Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:41 am

Thanks.
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby novacaine » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:50 am

The smell of fall.........you gotta love it!
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby JaMak84 » Wed Sep 28, 2016 11:58 am

Cotton? What the hell is that?
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby Bercy » Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:32 pm

Another for the memory of defoliant floating in the air to days of junior high and high school football road trips - and throw in home games as well as both end zones were cotton fields. It was probably not the best idea to be playing in newly defoliated fields chasing extra points, but I'm still alive.
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby deltadukman » Thu Sep 29, 2016 9:29 am

Could be DEF or any of the trade names that are sodium chlorate based. Defol, Drop, & Drexel are common trade names.
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby jacksbuddy » Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:34 pm

Aaaah yes. Defoliation season. The reason we here in Mississippi have TWO fall foliage seasons. The first is when the cotton farmers get ready to harvest, and the second is after the first hard freeze. Sort of brings a tear to your eye, don't it.
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Re: Cotton farming.

Postby hillhunter » Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:14 pm

Active ingredient is tribuphos, also known as DEF, or Folex.

Dropp, sodium chlorate, or prep doesn't really have a smell.
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