Derek Flad

Big week lots of hustle. #ClinicSZN #plant26 #westcdnag

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@Milkabot I’m just grateful for your low standards

@Flad02 You’re always a winner to me, Derek

Roll up the Rim is back. As if a guy didn’t need to battle seasonal depression already.

Don Cherry should just clip this game and call it Rock ‘em Sock ‘em: The Final Chapter. #TrolleyTracks #ThumbsUp

Picked the storybook for the plot(s). #Plant26 #CROPLAN #westcdnag

Bang on. #plant26 and years like it- tendency is to tighten the belt. Dialling in the agronomy and every pass is going to create more ROI than saving to prosperity 11 years out of 10 #westcdnag

@Milkabot I feel you took this line right out of your compactor manual

@Flad02 The way to get more points in big air is to 360 bumbletuck into the floosydoodle before you do your 860 scooty

My favorite part of the #WinterOlympics is every event colour commentator just going hard in the paint with technical analysis while I try to figure out what the rules even are. #Invested

Without a doubt the highlight of the Canadian feed for #SuperBowlLX is the 4 Skip the Dishes commercials so far. Going to place the over under at 37.5 #GetBetter

@olblue81 They do not. Very thorough process for new actives, formulations that come later on (post patent), not so much

@Flad02 So does the PMRA not measure performance between formulations?

Yearly reminder that post patent or generic products that lead with “we have the same amount of AI” mean absolutely nothing. Surfactants in the formulation do the heavy lifting. They’re also the most expensive part of the formulation. Not all generics are equal.. #westcdnag #plant26

Active gets registered, but the formulation varies. Why there’s different control in tough conditions between Transorb and a generic/post-patent formulations Adjuvants on label would be required in tank to ensure labelled weed performance. AMS, pH adjusters, Crimson are Utility modifiers widen the parameters for a spray solution to work . Adjuvants=transmission in truck, need one. Utility Modifiers= 4x4. Good for when conditions make it necessary but not critical.

@Flad02 Is it the surfactant or the active that gets registered by the PMRA?

Fair play- up this way majority of our spray conditions 80 Farenheit and under 20% humidity. and have a hard time with grassy's and Lamb Quarters/Kochia, and seen more as generics become more common. Price difference is getting there here as well- but do you pay for the brand in the hopes the new AI's they develop still come? Or go generic and keep the expense sheet tidy and risk nothing coming? No perfect answer for sure

@Flad02 Part of the heartburn here is the obscene price diff between name brand and generic I’ve used name brand and generics with mostly good success over my career and when it wasn’t neither had a satisfactory respray program

Back in my day surfactants were super cheap to manufacture and sold at huge margins. Of course something could have changed…

@SpecialtySeeds New year starts with a lot of caffeine for both of us it seems…

@Flad02 We are in a foreign country and fireworks started at 10:30 pm and lasted until after 1 am. Got up at 4 to go to airport.

Underrated New Year’s resolution: Don’t be the jackass that decides to set fireworks off in residential areas off at 30 past the hour. #GetBetter