{"id":700,"date":"2020-03-26T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utia-dev.tennessee.edu\/news\/?p=700"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:25:39","slug":"call-of-the-week-managing-late-burndown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utia-dev.tennessee.edu\/news\/call-of-the-week-managing-late-burndown\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of the Week: Managing Late Burndown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>How to Adapt Burndown Herbicide Programs to Wet Weather Delays<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rainy spring has delayed burndown for most Tennessee producers.\u00a0In this podcast, Dr. Larry Steckel discusses considerations for adapting burndown programs to wet weather delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/utiag\/embed\/episodes\/Call-of-the-Week-Managing-Late-Burndown-ebvegh\/a-a1pcgq0\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ginger Rowsey: Hi, everyone, and thanks for listening to Call of the Week. I\u2019m Ginger Rowsey with the UT Institute of Agriculture. Our guest today is Dr. Larry Steckel. Hi, Larry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larry Steckel: Hi, Ginger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: We may not sound as well as we typically do because we\u2019re spread out a little bit in our recording studio. We\u2019re practicing social distancing. That means keeping a little distance from our shared mic, too. So Larry just speak up a little bit, and hopefully this will work out ok.&nbsp;Glad you\u2019re here, and of course, COVID-19 is a story on everyone\u2019s mind, but the weather is also a big story in agriculture. How delayed are we due to weather, when we think about where we would typically be in a normal year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: That\u2019s a really good question. Just my take on it, driving around West Tennessse, we are a good bit behind an average type year. We were late last year, too. But there\u2019s just a handful of fields I know of that have a burndown application on. Most are sitting on go ready to do it, and that\u2019s the calls I\u2019m getting on strategy for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: We\u2019re recording this on March 25. No rain today. And we\u2019re maybe going to have a couple of days that are warm and sunny. How soon could people get out and start applying those burndowns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: Well, I would hope in some of these fields maybe we could get on them by the end of the week or sometime next week. We have a chance of rain over the weekend, so I\u2019m hoping that will come in July and not now, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: Right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: The big thing is can the sprayer get across the field without rutting or getting stuck? That\u2019s a real challenge in a lot of these fields. We have a lot of rolling hills, and unfortunately at the bottom of those fields we can really be in some trouble. So trying to work around a lot of fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: So, is it too soon to think about strategies to adopt when burndown is delayed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: No, really, and with corn we typically have a few folks wanting to roll corn planters, and certainly by the first week of April. So, we are late with corn burndown. Usually we are a good bit ahead on it. Sometimes we have some cotton and soybean burndown out, too, but the corn is really late. The answer to a lot of the questions is it\u2019s not a one size fits all deal. I can\u2019t give just one recipe and you run to every field. It really is dicatated by what weeds you have. If you have mostly broadleaves, maybe Poa annua, you know gramoxone, atrazine is really hard to beat. However, if you have a lot of ryegrass, that\u2019s a little trickier. A lot of it is Roundup resistant, so that\u2019s not going to help us a lot. Then you start looking at some other options. LeadOff, a lot of folks are looking at LeadOff, and that works pretty well with ryegrass. Some others may want to look at clethodim, but the problem with that is you\u2019ve got to plant back to corn. You\u2019ve got to wait six days for six ounces. That\u2019s what\u2019s on the 24C label we have. And others might try a couple shots of gramoxone twice, but no one really wants to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: What about current market conditions? Will that play a role in burndown decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: This is going to be a tough year from an economic standpoint. $8 soybeans, cotton is not a very good price, corn is probably as good as any, and it could be better. So, folks are trying to be as economical as possible. It seems like there\u2019s more interest\u2014if you\u2019re thinking cotton\u2014of Diuron. Getting it in the mix as a residual. It\u2019s pretty cheap, and it works well. I know there\u2019s a good bit of Valor going out. I think some of these marketing programs from some of the companies\u2014I think Bayer has a rewards program that\u2019s promoting Valor, getting it out early. That\u2019s another one that\u2019s going to be fairly economical. And there\u2019s others, as well, but trying to work around the economics and all this rain, and now the virus problems. It\u2019s been a heck of a spring already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: Anything else that producers need to keep in mind concerning burndowns with this late start on the season?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: Yeah, with the late start, it just depends how wet it gets, but we\u2019ve been having a lot of trouble with the junglerice, barnyardgrass. It will start coming up in April. We\u2019re going to have to watch for it, and you just can\u2019t count on Roundup to burn it down. Particularly if you\u2019ve got dicamba with it. It won\u2019t burn it down. So, just using straight Roundup, or Roundup with some clethodim, and keep the dicamba in the jug until you start running those post applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: And if you can\u2019t be timely with the burndown appllications how will this affect your weed management for the entire summer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: It just pushes everything back for the entire summer. The other thing is, we\u2019re very wet, we\u2019ve got rivers way high, you want to stay flexible. So, you may get out there and want to plant corn and you\u2019re using a herbicide program designed to work with corn, but you don\u2019t want to get locked into corn in case you don\u2019t get a stand and need to come back and plant soybean or cotton. You need to be flexible. So, not putting atrazine in the burndown or pre-plant is one way to keep you flexible so if you do lose the corn crop\u2014and I hope you don\u2019t\u2014you\u2019ve got a good option to come back with soybean and not worry about the herbicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: Anything else you wanted to add? Any more advice on this issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steckel: I\u2019m hoping maybe we\u2019re starting to get a turn on this weather. And I\u2019m hoping folks can get out in the field here pretty quick and get some burndowns out, and have success. One shot. Hopefully no follow-up applications this year, we just can\u2019t afford them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rowsey: Ok, thanks, Larry. I appreciate you being here. And we appreciate all of you out there listening. 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