English Summary Agro 2/2005

Hindsight to the agrarian year 2004 and a view to 2005 (Fiala)

Autumn 2003 did not indicate at all that the crops should be somehow extraordinary and that it might be better than last few years, which did not satisfy us very much. The conditions on the start of the agricultural years 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 and especially the state of the growth are very different. But according to the state of the growth we believe that the ends of both seasons and particularly the crops will not vary so much.

Did the herbicide Arrat come up to expectations of users? (Pavelka)

After a one-year distance and with the experience in practical use it is possible to say that the predication about Arrat quality was correct. The main predication, which was subsequently confirmed, was that Arrat would be better than a currently existing standard, would have a very wide effect spectrum, very simple and easy handling and dosing, would be the best contactless herbicide against violas and veronicas and its price would be very favourable.

Plant protection calendar recommendation for February and March (Gall)

After the snow melting it will be necessary to examine the oil-seed rape and first of all, according to the conditions, to treat it with a suitable herbicides and fertilize with nitrogen. Winter cereals, which are, with respect to a later arising, usually only in the starting phase of tilters creating, will need an application of the growth regulator to support the tilters creating and also a bigger potion of the recovery fertilizing.

The sense of weeds in cereals and possibilities of its regulation (Mikulka)

The assortment of herbicides, which are possible to use in spring cereals, is quite wide and covers nearly all kinds of weed. Nevertheless the overall weeding of the arable land and therefore also the cereals growth is still very extensive. The big weed presence was caused especially by an unseasonable variation of the crops, failures in the ground treatment and choosing of unsuitable herbicides.

The spring regulation of a weeding in the oil-seed rape (Vaculík)

Still a few years ago the herbicide treatment of the rape against the dicotyledonous weeds in spring was very problematic. Last year Galera, the new registered post-emergently applicable wide spectral herbicide, which also has a very high selectivity against the winter rape, brought the solution of this problem.

The impact of the minimized technologies on the weed generic spectrum in the winter wheat and in the spring barley (Winkler)

The ground treatment is one of the most important factors, which the farmer can induce the weed growth in the arable land with. Except the weed intensity it is possible to affect also the weed generic spectrum. In minimized technologies the weed pesticide effect of the tillage is retrieving by a chemical regulation. It considerably changes the conditions for the several weed kinds existence in the arable land.

Using of herbicides on the dicotyledonous weeds in the poppy areas (Fišer)

In the conditions of the Czech agriculture the poppy growing expanded a lot and meant an extensive increase, as its realisation is very interesting for our market. This crop-plant grows from the corn to the worse potato region. In all these regions it is possible to get over 1 ton per hectare of the crops.

Afalon 45 SC certainty of a reliable work (Svoboda)

This wide spectral herbicide, which contains a very active substance linuron, is known with its reliable effect on most of annual dicotyledonous weeds and with a great side effect on some grasses. Especially perennial deeply rootage weeds are resistant to the herbicide.

What else in the corn without athrazine? (Jůza)

Protection of the corn growth against weeds will be completely different this year than it was in the past. The reason is a limiting of the sale of very favourite pesticides on the base of athrazine that were an essential framework of the protection against weeds in separate applications or in a different combination with other herbicides for many corn growers. Now it is necessary to find an alternate solution and it will not be universal for all kinds of weeding.

Spring protection against the grasslike and dicotyledonous weeds in the cereals in spring 2005 (Suchánek)

On the threshold of the new season it is time to plan the plants protection during spring. Again a very important thing is the cereals spring protection against weeds. It is also clearly shown by a very mild weather course at the end of 2004 and at the start of 2005.

Goltix Top innovated recommendation for use in 2005 (Svoboda)

Even thought there was a quite long period of stress on the ground of a drought season during 2004, the firm system of a sugar beet growing using Goltix Top, Agil 100 EC and Cliophar 300 SL supplied by Agrovita Ltd. brought a very solid efficiency.

Sugar beet and its herbicide protection (Procházka)

One of the most important tasks of agriculturist is to keep the growth without competitive weeds during the first phases of the sugar beet grow, means to eliminate the weeds presence on minimum and in time. If delayed, increased expenses for a necessary over limited treatment against weeds costs the company a lot of money.

Sumi Agro Czech herbicide preparation for spring 2005 (Hrbáček)

Sumi Agro Czech offers a wide spectrum of herbicides for the treatment of a most of mass productive crops. Protugan 50 SC for the cereals treatment, Racer 25 EC for use in sunflowers, potatoes, and corns. Galigan 240 EC in sunflowers, onions, plantations, vineyards, and no agrarian ground.

Grasslike weeds in rape and other spring crops (Filip)

In consequence of the late harvest of the preceding crop and low rape prices, another decrease of a winter rape acreage happened in autumn 2004 (c. 280 000 hectares). Even thought the winter rape sow area is smaller than last year, it is necessary the agriculturist will do everything to gain a maximum effect from the existing growth.

Touchdown Quattro - glyphosate of a new generation (Vašek)

The effective substance glyphosate is known to public for many years and is worldwide known. One of the purposes of the Syngenta research work is to optimise already existing products to get their even better attributes. The new Touchdown Quattro is a good example of such effort and the new technology System 4 improved users attributes so clearly that it is possible to talk about a new generation of this product.

Mysterious damage of tomatoes, paprika and potatoes (Rod)

At least for ten years I have seen damages of tomatoes, potatoes and paprika, which, by their symptoms, look quite the same but, unfortunately, despite my good effort I was not able to find out the cause. After some time of research we can say that a residue of herbicides in a compost substance does not cause this damage but we still cannot find the real reason of the damage.

Sumi Agro Czech fungicidal combination for cereals in 2005 (Hrbáček)

Sumi Agro Czech is preparing combinations of the following preparations for 2005 - Topsin M 70 WP, Impact, Bumper 25 EC. The main idea of the Sumi Agro Czech fungicidal combinations is to offer the cereal growers good and quality fungicidal preparations for their use on a charge of the competent agronomical verdict.

Occurrence of pests in 2003 and estimation for the need of the fruit trees protection this year (Falta)

In the influence of an extremely hot and droughty weather during last year there appeared many pests as green flies, red spider mites, Hessian flies etc. Compare the course of the effective temperatures within last few years, it is possible to mark the last season as a not very typical one. In respect to a supposed mass laying of winter pest eggs it will be necessary to check the bed in early spring.

Problems with sunflower pests in the Czech Republic and a possibility to use experiences from the Slovak Republic (Muška)

Some time ago the common sunflower was cultivated as a decorative plant or as a catch crop at maximum. On the ground of the former Czechoslovak Republic the cultivation of this sunflower expanded after the year 1945 but in practice the most expanded cultivation of it was in Slovakia at the end of the seventies in the last century (1979 - 20518 hectares).

The conference with the only one substance theme (Juren)

On the first week of January this year the Sumi Agro Czech conference called Mospilan 20 SP took place in the assembly hall of the Czech Agrarian University in Prague. Just the above-mentioned insecticide was the focal theme of the whole conference.

Selecting of the sugar beet species (Srba)

Czech grower disposes with a good seed of sugar beet species practically from all of the most important European cultivating companies. To help you to orientate in many various advertising offers, which are offered by companies agents during the business with the sugar beet species, we want to inform you about the testing results and the species registration according to valid legal regulations.

Biotechnology increase a profitability and a quality of the agricultural production (Kusendová)

The research of genetically modified crops began in the eighties of the last century and, after more than 15 years of intensive research, the first result insect resistant soya - was commercially cultivated on the acreage of 1,7 mil hectares in 1996. From that time the number and the expansion of such modified crops raising increases. In 2003 they were raised on 67,7 mil hectares area and the most frequent ones are the soya, cotton, corn and rape.

Potassium the Key to the field of success (Torma)

Physiologists and agro-chemists categorize potassium, together with nitrogen and phosphorus, as one of the three most important biogenous elements, whereas potassium is a very special one between them. Its reserve in many grounds is sufficient but its plants consumption depends on conditions given by the environment specifications.

Optimalization of the spring barley nutrition to reach the grain malting quality (Hřivna)

The production and the quality of the malting barley belong to very often-discussed problems and are the measurements of success in the raising. Both criteria are subject to the level of the floriculture conditions limited by the weather course, the place, the ground conditions, and the chosen agro-technology.

What are the formalized foliar fertilizers? (Sláma)

Recently it is possible to hear the term formalized foliar fertilizers regarding to the plant nutrition. As the foliar fertilizers offer is broadening, what their increasing usage in the vegetal production indicates, it is necessary to explain some terms that are mentioned in connection with the foliar fertilizers. One of them is the term formula, formalized foliar fertilizers.

Break Thru guarantee of a higher effectiveness in the plant protection (Košťál)

In connection with the plant protection the big attention is paid to the development of the fully new active substances but there is still a big interest in using so called auxiliary agents in the plant protection, where the soaking agents and the vegetative bio-activators belong to those ones with the biggest importance. Only in the USA there are registered over 200 of them and in neighbouring Germany there are over 110 agents of this kind.

Variable floricultural technologies and intensifying entries in cultivation of the spring malting barley in 2004 (Černý)

The malting barley Czech production has met with absences in the crops level and the technological quality within last few years. While the period from 1960 to 1991 was characterized by increasing of the barley crops (in an average about 70 kilograms per hectare yearly), from 1992 the crops was rapidly falling down and their trend is still, even thought there was uplift during last three years, slightly decreasing.

Soon we will run to seed the spring barley (Žák)

The spring barley is quite unpretentious to the temperature. It needs a temperature from 17 to 25 °C. The germination starts with a temperature +1 °C and it puts up with a temperature through -12 °C. In our conditions the precipitation quantity is from 450 to 650 mm. But the very important thing is the precipitation partition during the growing season. It is necessary that the decisive rain will fall within May and June.

Electronic business in agronomy fiction or opportunity? (4) (Milata)

Internet is one of the tools, which helps to companies to reduce the operating and logistic expenses, brings a higher quality of services to customers and advances it on a new level, makes the entrance to new markets or other business segments easier, creates new possibilities of the services generation and newly defines the relations between business partners.