PLANTER SCALE--Kinze Manufacturing announces it will be the only planter manufacturer to offer a scale package as a factory option on all Air Seed Delivery (ASD) planters in its 2010 product line. The scale package option will provide corn, soybean and other row-crop producers an important managment tool to help them improve planting efficiency and seed management. Kinze will offer Digi-Sta®. scales on its ASD row-crop planters as a premier management tool for growers. The scale packaage features: Three 1,500 pound Digi-Star load cells per tank (six total); platform-mounted display installed near the planter's ASD tanks for easy use when loading tanks; and wiring and cabling, as needed. For more information, contact a local Kinze dealer, or visit www.kinze.com.
 FLAT HOSE--Toro Micro-Irrigation, El Cajon, Calif., introduces the Layflat Hose. Resulting from a strategic partnership with Sun-Flow, Inc. of Torrance, Calif., Layflat Hose is a popular product among agricultural growers for sub-main piping in a drip irrigation system. Layflat is commonly used for mainlines and sub-mains for irrigation lateral lines and for general water transfer. For more information, visit www.toromicroirrigation.com or www.dripirrigation.org.
Herbicide offers early-season weed control
DuPont has received federal registration approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for DuPont Prequel, a new preemergence herbicide for corn designed to provide growers with a more effective tool for managing weeds during the crop's critical early growth stages.
According to Jeff Carpenter, corn portfolio manager for DuPont Crop Protection, the new product was designed specifically to provide growers with more control under more conditions. "Many corn growers are struggling to control weeds using glyphosate alone," Carpenter said. "Prequel helps keep fields clean early to give corn the best start. Recent university research has shown that almost any weed competition in the first few weeks after emergence can reduce corn yields."
Prequel provides contact plus residual grass and broadleaf control in conventional and herbicide-tolerant corn programs. Prequel has multiple modes of action for longer-lasting, more consistent early-season control of tough weeds, including ragweed and pigweed.
Carpenter recommended using Prequel preemergence, followed by a postemergence application of DuPont Resolve Q herbicide, to ensure season-long weed control in corn.
For more information, call a local DuPont sales representative, or visit www.dupont.com
Nitrogen stabilizer impresses in trials
Thanks to a Section 24(c) Special Local Need Registration for INSTINCT nitrogen stabilizer in Iowa during 2008, growers got a first look at the product's performance in on-farm field trials. This summer, INSTINCT received federal registration and now is widely available across the Corn Belt.
INSTINCT stabilizes urea ammonium nitrate and manure applications in the soil, protecting nitrogen at the plant root zone and optimizing yield potential--a benefit clearly evident in a total of 76 trials in all regions of Iowa. Acres treated with INSTINCT yielded 5 bushels more per acre on average compared with untreated acres.
One of the first on-farm field trials to test INSTINCT was conducted on the Williamson Brothers farm near West Bend, Iowa, in cooperation with MaxYield Cooperative. Trial results showed that corn grown in soil treated with INSTINCT produced higher yields than corn grown without an application.
In their trial, the Williamsons applied UAN stabilized with INSTINCT nitrogen stabilizer on three 90-foot strips containing 12 rows each that alternated with three strips applied with unstabilized UAN.
The first treated strip yielded 205 bushels per acre, more than 19 bushels per acre higher than the corresponding untreated strip. The second treated strip came in at 177 bushels per acre, compared with 169 bushels per acre in the corresponding untreated strip. The third and final treated strip yielded 20 bushels per acre higher than the corresponding untreated strip.
Andrew Simeonidis, product manager for Dow AgroSciences, says using INSTINCT can help growers optimize corn yields by keeping N applications at the root zone, where plants can access it easily during key growth stages.
"Corn that has access to adequate N is healthier and more capable of capturing sunlight. The more sunlight energy corn plants can capture, the more energy they can turn into grain," Simeonidis said. "More available N also equals stronger, healthier plants that have better standability, reduced risk of stalk rot and faster drydown."
As an encapsulated product, INSTINCT remains stable on the soil surface for up to 10 days, allowing flexibility in fertilizer application and incorporation. INSTINCT can be incorporated mechanically or with a half-inch rain or irrigation.
For more information, or visit www.InstinctNitrogenStabilizer.com.
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