Rice Damage?

[torch]

They claim its roundup but I am not sure. Lots of acres dying. Anyone else having these problems?

[hillhunter]

I would not be surprised with the high winds we've had the last week or so. Chems can drift for a while and it only takes a little.

[timberjack]

I can't speak about rice but I know my corn took a beating after that last big rain we had. It stayed submerged for a day and a half...........it's looking a little better now and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I wanted to plant tropical corn and mix it up with some millets and different things but decided to go with RR corn and beans 'cause everybody around me is spraying roundup. That drift is for real, I've got 15 acres planted and don't have a sprig of grass in it and I haven't sprayed it.

[Anatidae]

Charlie, what's in the field across the road?

I started to throw away 277 campaign signs 'cause we're moving, but I think I'll hang onto them just in case........

[timberjack]

They put beans over there again but he told me he was gonna put winter wheat on it after he cuts his beans. We won't be able to catch any water in that field this year but we'll probably have some great goose hunts over there. Looks like we'll be able to put those spec decoys to good use.

[Caller1]

LOTS of roundup drift, Torch. Especially in your area...... JEEZ . Someone has a big problem on their hands. Lot hit around Longshot area also. We have about 3000 acres hit, another consultant has around 4000 south of us... one 1100 acre block, smoked to the ground. Now alot of rice dying from drought. Only 7 days from a drought when it comes to crops. Rice roots are in the dry , 3 inches down.

[Boogerden Boy]

we've got some that's been hit. some of it is dead, but most of it has a burnt tip on it. Pretty sure we know where it came from too. Some beans(not ours) were sprayed a week or so ago. half of Our bean field right next to it prolly won't even havr to be sprayed cause their drift killed the grass for us.

[the doctor]

cant really see the growers complaining....I mean land leveled fields among other things equals no more tree lines=higher sustained winds=faster dry times + chemical drift

I understand to some degree the mentallity behind clearcutting tree lines and brush lines from a growers standpoint but from an environmental standpoint it doesnt make a lot of sense

now we are experiencing from what you guys are saying the negative reprucussions of no natural barriers...ie chemical drift further and faster and dry times quicker

hope all turns out well...maybe after this year some of our growers will reconsider those natural buffers it certainly improves the landscape, the animals certainly will appreciate it and maybe it will help solve some of the problems you guys are describing

the doc

[dedux]

LOTS of dead and dying crops between Shaw and Benoit on 448. Worse looking crops I've ever seen thru that way, especially for this time of year. Those dagos thru that area are dang good farmers, but things don't look too good, right now.

[deltadukman]

Word is there is 20,000 acres of rice dead in Bolivar county because of drift. We just got a call yesterday to fly a bunch of rice between Greenville and Shelby for some guy to do an analsis on and I bet it is related to this as we do mostly cotton.

[torch]

Have they changed the formulation on roundup? We have never had a problem in the past. There is a lot of rice around Shelby dead.

[Wingman]

Always been a problem in early spring with roundup drift. Usually it's corn that gets killed. Since rice and corn are the first to be planted, and there is a good bit of burndown going out at the same time, and the wind is galing at that time of year, you usually hear about it early on.

[Po Monkey Lounger]

Sounds like some folks need a good lawyer. I can represent either side --go after those yahoo, rude, inconsiderate roundup drifters who are recklessly killing others' crops and taking the food out of the mouths of families, or defend those fine, innocent farmers/sprayers --- who are just victims themselves of unforeseeable acts of mother nature---from frivolous suits filed by a bunch of whiners.

[torch]

just talked to a farmer who said the plant board says we could have as much as 45,000 acres affected.

[deltadukman]

We were asked to fly damage assement for a crop analysis person for lawyers and insurance purposes and it was around 175 square miles. From Greenville to Shelby. Is there still a burndown band after a certain date? Plus I have been doing alot of traveling around here and the idiots are spraying in 30mph winds with there booms running about 6-8 feet off the ground. No wonder we are in this mess. Lets cut them insurance checks and double crop it this year