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.

Farms often do multiple plantings of many crops, the backbone process that spells success as well as complicates things. Flag the technology is something used to make farmers make efficient pesticide use. Using the right kind of chemical on specific areas is important here, because the field patterns will be confusing.

Pesticides are now more organic, with less use for toxic items that have been under heavy criticism some years back. However, their use is also relevant to plant species, for certain control factors related to planting specific crops. Grain, for instance, has different chemical needs from that of vegetables or livestock crops like alfalfa.

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.

Samples of this tech that are in common use these days are Liberty or Clearfield planting systems and the popular Roundup process. For this last, crops that have had their DNA refashioned are protected against the use of some other chemicals. These can be anything, from corn to canola, to cotton and sugarbeets, or soybeans and sunflowers.

Clearfield involves the chemical control of broadleaf weed systems and is tasked to eliminate residual grass growth. The Liberty process provides improved systems for delicate plantings and the hard weeds that prey on their spaces. Technologies like these are vital to making large farms work with cash crops for all kinds of markets in the nation.

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.

Colored flags will delineate each specific field especially during times when crops need to be dusted or chemically protected. Flags are lined along field borders to eliminate pesticide distribution mistakes and there are some really bad chemical combinations that can happen. Being able to keep chemicals off from each other is a thing that distinguishes good farm management.

This flagging system is now in wide use all over many states in the country. It is highly efficient for the larger farms, where acres and acres of fields with different crops can seem to blend with each other. Flags take out the headache of marking where one different field ends and another one begins.




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