b"With current environmental records showing rainfall below this threshold for many parts of Western Canada, BASF is making a number of agronomic recommendations in addition to the current rotational crop recommendations on its imidazoline-based herbicide labels.The recommendations apply to growers who farm in the dark brown, black, grey or grey wooded soil zones who received less than 125 mm of accumulated rainfall between June 1 and Sept. 1, 2021, and growers who farm in the brown soil zone who have received less than 125 mm of accumulated rainfall between June 1 and Sept.1, 2021 and those who received less than 15 mm of rainfall in any of the months of June, July or August 2021.Due to the extreme risk of crop injury, BASF will not be supportingDaniel Packer, BASF senior brand managerChris Bauer, a grain farmer in Lake Lenore, Sask.canola, durum wheat, and canary seed as follow crops in the 2022 season if theespecially given that lab tests to detectyou sprayed in 2021 and what youre recommendations arent followed. herbicide residue in soil can be costly,growing on that field in 2022, because This isnt the first time that BASFtime consuming and misleading.that's where you could really run into the has put out a communication to ourAn alternative exists that involves theproblems, he adds.customers, advising them of potentialgrower conducting a bioassay, whichHe suspects growers may not be as risk. The difference this time around isinvolves planting crops of interest inpicky about specific varieties and will be theres a lot more urgency and specificitysoil collected a few weeks before theirmore focused on simply getting enough to it, says Russell Trischuk, technicalscheduled planting date. seed in time for planting.services manager for BASF Canada.It would be great to have an easier,After a drought, Im not sure variety Based on the weather information thatfaster way of testing the soil to see howmatters as much. Its going to more a we have, and historical data on wheremuch herbicide is actually in there. A lotmatter of where am I going to find seed, we see injury happening and how thatof growers would welcome somethingand whats it going to cost me? Because pertains to the environment, this year welike that, Bauer says. this year, with commodity markets the needed to warn growers that they willBASF is actively working on new waysway they are, you can close your eyes very likely experience this due to suchto better inform growers about localizedand pick a price today and tomorrow its an extreme drought in 2021. risk and what they can do about it, saysdifferent.According to Trischuk, growers needCalgary-based Senior Brand ManagerFor Bauer, business has certainly soil to be moist for a period of time inDaniel Packer.become more complicated in light of order for herbicides to be broken down.Providing better recommendationslast years drought and the ongoing Those conditions didnt exist for manyis something were always looking at.pandemic.parts of the brown soil zone in WesternDigital tools allow us to provide a veryGrain prices are at a record high. Canada.specific recommendation to a specificTheyre excellent. But most producers We dont want our customers tocustomer. We have a very strong digitalhave pre-priced their crop in 2021, not suffer major crop injury. Its our duty asfarming team and a lot of great resourcesrealizing that we were going to have such stewards of these chemistries to helpand technology that we can use to createpoor results. The grain companies arent them in their decision making. Thatspredictive modeling, Packer says.giving us any breaks. Theyre charging why we left the door open for otherThats a major focus of ours, trying tofull price for buyouts. Thats a problem to crops they can plant, like spring wheat,see if we can predict these factors morebe worried about in the future, he says.which is at reduced risk in the event ofaccurately and more locally to a specificAre people going to be forward herbicide carryover. area and a specific customer in thecontracting more? The prices that were Bauer wasnt affected by the BASFconditions that they're experiencing. getting are double, but people didnt warning of herbicide carryover, as heWhiting stresses that appropriate crophave enough crop to capitalize on that. doesnt do that kind of rotation on hisrotations will be crucial in 2022 andMeanwhile, were all in the same boat to farm, but he says growers like himselfwill be one of the best weapons in thebuy inputs, and the prices are so high. are becoming increasingly affected bygrowers arsenal to combat issues likeAnd the risk is the most weve seen in a such concerns in light of weather andherbicide carryover. long time, maybe ever.climate events like the 2021 droughtBottom line is pay attention to what Marc Zienkiewicz36seed.ab.ca"