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Checked the edge of the field I posted about where the guy notilled into fescue. Looked at the edge and can see that beans are coming up, but there is by no means a stand yet. We have had 51/2 inches of rain in June so far including 1 1/4 inch last night so I didn't go far into the field.

I mentioned the he notilled wheat last fall and that Johnson grass is bad in it. For curiousity, is there a spray that would kill Johnson grass in wheat? Is there any Roundup ready wheat? Too late for his wheat anyway.

Due to all the rain, I see a lot of small grain bedded down.

On a brighter note, sweet corn in my garden is starting to tassel. (W SC).

KEH
 
Despite a small bit of rr wheat being found in a field in Oregon, there is no commercially available rr wheat. It was worked on a decade ago, and New Zealand - Australia are working on another type of modified wheat, but nothing is available commercially at this time.

No tilling wheat into a grass does seem pretty odd.

The experts say it works well to do so with beans.

I wouldn't know, this is not a notill area, not at all. Only seen it tried once, and it never rained that year after planting, they couldn't get the grass killed it was so dry, the beans never spouted.

Paul
 
As mentioned by Paul, huge flap over some RR wheat discovered in a field in eastern Oregon. Monsanto came up with RR wheat about a decade ago, but when Japan and Korea got wind of it, they said if we ever sent them any genetically modified wheat, they would never buy from us again. Since about 90% of the soft white grown around here goes to the far east, everybody lost interest in the project pretty quickly.

Present brouhaha came about when somebody sprayed the volunteer wheat in summer fallow and it wouldn't die. Farmer involved should have done the agronomy version of SSS, and just tilled it out- but called the Extension Agent instead. So now there's a big investigation, Japan has suspended shipments, heads will roll, etc., etc.

Probably was seed taken from the wrong bin, a long time ago- nobody knew, because no one had sprayed their wheat crop with Roundup. And most summer fallow just gets tilled rather than sprayed.
 
There is a Clearfield wheat, which is resistant to Beyond herbicide, and I think you could spray for the the Johnson grass with that system. Don't quote me, as I don't raise wheat.

David
 
I've heard it is the Monsanto strain of gmo, but it is appearing in a winter wheat, while Monsanto was working with a spring wheat (or the other way around?) so there appear to be a lot of questions on that deal......

Paul
 
Hadn't heard anything about the winter vs. spring question- I think it was just some volunteer wheat in a summer fallow, so not sure you could tell which it is.
 

Thanks for comments. Now that you mention it, I had read about that roundup wheat flap. I agree, the farmer should have plowed it under ans said nothing. Wheat here is planted in the fall and would be ready to cut now, if it weren't for rainy weather. The guy I mentioned apperantly got away with the notilling part, just the Johnson grass came up with the warm weather. I guess he could struggle and take the wheat off and plant RR soybeans and get some control over the Johnson grass.

Tresspass laws? My post said I stopped at the edge of the field. I didn't even get off the highway right of way, not that that matters. The neighbor wouldn't care. A very few years ago he was recovering from a glaucoma operation and his cows kept getting out. I helped him run about 1/2 mile of electric fence to keep his cows in, so I doubt if he would have any objections to me stopping on th eroad.

KEH
 
"Monsanto was working with a spring wheat (or the other way around?) so there appear to be a lot of questions on that deal..."

Everything about that incident looks like someone deliberately saved and planted the GMO variety. There"s a whole cult of Monsanto haters who wouldn"t hesitate to use a stunt like that.
 
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