Chemical Damage

Have you ever looked at your crop as and after it has emerged and found that each of the  rows are emerging at a different rates and later on there is three distinct growth stages in the crop. What causes this pattern that appears in the rows?

If your bar is paddock level and you have checked seed depth and found them to be within the correct range, you are probably seeing the results of Triflurilan damage and the reason you see the uneven and patchy establishment, as shown in figure 1 below.

FIGURE 1

Note - blue lines represent distance soil is thrown from each tyne

What Figure 1 is showing is that all the rows that have green trailing them have very little to no Triflurilan with the seed (rows 1,3,7,13,17 and 19) so being the strongest healthiest plants.
Rows that have orange trailing them have low to mild Triflurilan damage caused by soil being thrown form trailing tynes into the seed trench (ie row 8 will have soil contamination from row 7) so being average reduced plant establishment and lower vigor.
Rows that have red trailing them have medium to high Triflurilan damage caused by two trailing tynes throwing soil into the seed trench (ie row 10 will have soil contamination from rows 9 and 11) so being the worst rows very poor establishment and vigor.

Why does this affect it so? It is because the open furrow systems used by other manufacturers the seed is placed behind the opener leaving it open to the elements until the press wheel finishes the job.

Stiletto is different because the seed is placed under the ground with clean soil on top so the seed is rarely exposed to the elements thus almost eliminating the chance of chemical contamination on all tynes even if Triflurilan is thrown into the row.
 

More benefits:

• Closed Seeding System

• Speed

• Better Row Competition

• Trials