According to Maher, the cartridge respirator is essential protection for many hazardous jobs on the farm. Be sure to purchase several cartridges because they have a limited service life and you should always have a spare. Using respiratory protection when cleaning grain bins is definitely an economical investment in your health. Dividend seed treatment can now be used as part of an overall disease management program for Karnal bunt in wheat. Dividend seed treatment fungicide is part of an overall strategy that' s designed to manage the spread of Karnal bunt seed-borne inoculum.
Dividend is labeled for partial control of the seed-borne phase of the disease.
As part of an overall management program, Dividend can play an effective role in reducing the long distance spread of spores through contaminated seed. About 1,100 bushels of the new variety were grown as breeder seed in 1995. In a normal release program, last year's seed would have undergone purification by discarding all variant or off-type plants from the growing crop. This year would then have been a small increase year. The variety then would have been increased over the course of another year as Foundation seed and released for production as Registered seed, with Certified seed available the following year, or not until 1999.