Flag The Technology Programs And How They Work

By Martha Smith


Agricultural tech is always in the process of being improved on, and the modern farm can have lots of technologically advanced processes, systems and materials in use. Some of the things that these places use can range from the simple to the complex. All will have their specific uses, and when taken together, form an overall complex that needs good management.

For farmers today, multicrop planting is often key to a successful spread, along with some kind of livestock breeding. Flag the technology enables farmers to identify the pesticide needs of specific sections of their fields. This helps in being able to use the correct kind of chemicals on any part of the farm that need them.

A lot of pesticides have become organic, allowing less hazardous elements in the chemical compounds that once posed extreme risk factors. Their use today is always specific, tagged to growth, kind of plant, and some ground factors. There are gradations and types of chemical use, often reliant on the kind of crop being planted.

Flagging is a simple enough system to use, and it is a concern that is very useful for farms that have what is called stacked field technologies. This means there are certain tech concerns for each kind of field. These might be linked to the use of certain brands of chemicals, industrial crop system, or the growth programs that have certain chemical distribution schedules.

Examples of the best technologies being used today are things like Roundup cropping, Liberty systems, and Clearfield technology. For Roundup readiness, plants that are engineered genetically is prepared against use of other kinds of pesticides. The DNA refashioned crops can be cotton, corn, canola, beets, alfalfa and soybeans.

Clearfield is a system that seeks to control the growth of the tougher and residual grasses on the fields. Liberty Link uses chemicals that eliminate the toughest weeds that can muscle out the more delicate crop species. These tech systems are important to all large farms, or combine farming, where cash crops are grown for volume market demands.

Flags are used to distinguish them, like bright green for Liberty Link, white for Roundup ready systems, and bright yellow for Clearfield cropping. Other popular or preferred colors in use are red, which is for conventional cropping involving no herbicides, or checkered black and white. The preferred size is for a 12 inch by 18 inch triangle supported by fiberglass poles.

The colors easily identify a field for a crop duster plane, or for large chemical distribution land machines. If these flags are up, there will be no mistakes made in distributing different kinds of chemicals that might become dangerous when combined. Keeping them separate and working in different sections spells good management and safety.

Flagging has become the norm for all kinds of farming operations for people here. Using them is efficient and always excellent when there can a mixture of plants for each acre planted. Flagging reduces the identification problems to near zero, especially during times when pesticides are used.




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