. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fall profits depend on ^winter ^weed control By CHARLES HENRY Referring to the recent clearance of several new herbi- cides, Azmi Y. Shaw, horticulturist and extension agent at the Washington State University and Extension Center in Long Beach, declared: "We are finally getting the tools our growers ; "We have been after up to 10 different perennial weeds for the past 10 years," Shawa told this writer. "Some of our herbicides just didn't have the punch and if we upped the rates, we would hurt the bogs.
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Fall profits depend on ^winter ^weed control By CHARLES HENRY Referring to the recent clearance of several new herbi- cides, Azmi Y. Shaw, horticulturist and extension agent at the Washington State University and Extension Center in Long Beach, declared: "We are finally getting the tools our growers ; "We have been after up to 10 different perennial weeds for the past 10 years," Shawa told this writer. "Some of our herbicides just didn't have the punch and if we upped the rates, we would hurt the ; "IT WAS FRUSTRATING to know but we couldn't use them until now," said Elmer Roloff, a cranberry grower in Ilwaco, Wash., about Devrinol and other herbicides now labeled for use in the northwest. Shawa explains that Washington and Oregon growers like Roloff are anxious to increase yields through better weed control since prices have been favorable the past three years. We are finally catching up with inflation, he states. And growers would rather increase yields than plant more bogs since the start up costs for a new bog are high, Shawa explains. Acreage is climbing slowly in Washington and Oregon, however, with 1,200 acres and 900 acres respectively. Shawa states that acreages are really climbing just to the north of Washington in British Columbia where cranberry growers. that the tools we needed were there, HHUMiii iiiiiiliiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiuiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiniiiuuiiimuuuiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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