neighbor spraying roundup in the wind.

[Podunkadunk]

I'm not convinced it was roundup. Did you SEE the bottles and I just missed that part of the post, or are you speculating? Not trying to be a smart *&$, but you said you had never used roundup before...are you sure you know what it smells like? You were almost a quarter mile away, could you read the bottles from there, or did you walk over and look. I'm just curious.

Maybe it was a fungicide or some sort of pesticide? Did you try asking him what he was spraying?

Podunk

 

[Redbug]

Rainfastness is about 6 hours for most types of Roundup. I have used the RU Weathermax in the past and believe it is rainfast after about 1 hour.

Here's some good literature on that...
1 CONFUSING ISSUES ABOUT GLYPHOSATE James R. Martin and J.D. Green Dept of Agronomy, University of Kentucky


Roundup is a pretty safe chemical. I do not think you will have any problems from the downwind exposure.

 

[bigshovel]

I'm fairly confident Round up is only effective on grass. I know that some corn is now hybrid as round up ready. All my uses of the product have never killed anything but grass.

Brad

 

[WTA]

It was roundup. I'm sure of it. I know my neighbors pretty well. Plus he told me he was gong to use it the day before. I asked him to do it real early in the morning when the wind wasn't blowing too. I also gave him some other pointers about spraying safely around here, like which nozzles to use and how much to mix and all. Most of us here use pretty fast ground speeds with big nozzles that make droplets instead of a mist. That's because it's always so windy here. Roundup will kill everything living on my farm. I've read the bottles before. Pecan trees, peach trees, cherry trees, Bermuda and alfalfa are all susceptible to it.

Some of the Alfalfa has started showing signs of being hit by it. The top leaves on the plants have started turning colors. It's not looking too bad though. My fence lines from all the way over on his side to the one side of my alfalfa field got hit hard though. Those weeds are really laying over. Maybe they blocked some of the mist I'm hoping.

We haven't turned off the sprinklers on the alfalfa though since it happened. Hopefully most of it has been rinsed off in time. I'm sure the 6 inches of water I've put down so far didn't hurt at all either. I usually only do 3 inches a week.

If they made roundup ready pecan trees, I'd be planting a new orchard tomorrow. The RR Alfalfa is still held up in court battles and not on the market yet. I have one neighbor here that was lucky enough to get a few bags of it durring the very short time it was available about two years ago but noone else I know got any. The courts shut down sales of it real fast.

 

[WTA]

Well, it looks like some of the alfalfa got hit by it. Not bad really but enough. Most of the damage is limited to the shorter stuff along the fencelines where the sprinklers barely reach. I think I really saved it by running the sprinklers nonstop like I did on all of it.

I'm going to go talk to the neighbor but I don't think the damage I got is worth complaining about. I'm mostly going to tell him to let me spray from now on with my rig. His sprayer needs to be confined to the back yard where it can do what it was intended to do.

This whole darn field is going to be a total loss real soon for other reasons anyway. Between another neighbors horse, who he is about to have taken away by the law, getting into my field two mornings in a row, and the fact that the injector pump on my new tractor just decided to take a dump, I doubt I'll get this field baled in time. Right now it's perfect and just starting to flower out. It's all about knee high and we have 4-5 clear weather days it looks like. My tractor is back at the dealer though and it looks like they shipped the pump out somewhere to get rebuilt. That just makes my day. They won't give me a loaner either.

That's ok. My tractor payment is due in August and they know it. That hay out there is my payment. My buyers all want the crop analysis report from it and won't buy it if it's baled too late. They all are race horse owners.

 

[plowking]

Hope you make out ok. I'd find another dealer if possible that would loan a tractor in time of need. My dealer stresses his loaner program on his mission statement. I could get a loaner when mine goes back for service,repairs. plowking

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I sprayed roundup today about 4 pm, by 8 pm there was noticeable wilting of some ragweeds.

 

[WTA]

I got all my alfalfa cut a few days ago and now it's a rush against time to get it baled and put up before it rains. It's forecast for tomorrow morning. It's drying so slow!!! I raked it twice now to flip the rows over. I was in such a hurry to get it cut after getting my tractor back that I forgot to reset my haybine to lay a wide swath. Instead it put it in waist deep windrows. I also ran my tractor out of hydraulic oil about the time I got to the end of my cutting. That was thanks to the leak the dealer was asked to fix but only made worse. I spent close to 6 hours out there with a wheelbarrow and pitchfork picking all the oil covered hay out of the rows and tossing it over my fence.
I guess they thought it needed some preservative on it or something.