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Post by Oatking on Jun 22, 2024 19:59:39 GMT -6
It’s that time of year soon to start thinking about fungicide on our small grain crops .
The wet conditions now across the prairies are making for some conditions that could cause disease .
With the down turn in grain prices it will be hard to justify throwing additional money out for fungicides .
That is one crop input , honestly I have rarely seen help my crop .
That seems like a crazy thing to say but it’s so hard to tell if it helps ! I have left untreated spots but have never noticed differences . I think it has helped my wheat crop a couple times but the vomi was still too high to get a good grade or price ! In canola it’s even harder to see yield improvement .
What are you guys thinking or planing in the weeks ahead in terms of fungicides .
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Post by SWMan on Jun 22, 2024 21:44:07 GMT -6
It's been a few years since I sprayed canola fungicide, very little payback on that one usually and wheel tracks are a pain sometimes. I do usually two pass fungicide the cereals but recently in dry years have stuck with a generic propiconazole for the flag pass or down with the growth regulator at GS30-32. This year definitely two pass on cereals and growth regulator, we got another 1.2" of rain this afternoon and crop looks good. Never seen a payback on soybeans. I definitely do peas at early flower, second pass if it stays wet and conditions for disease exist.
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Post by victory on Jun 22, 2024 22:35:26 GMT -6
We always put fungicide on our cereals, unless it is a light crop and conditions are very dry. Yield increase pays for the fungicide application on a year where disease pressure is not heavy; when there is heavy pressure (thick crop and hot and humid conditions) there is almost always a substantial yield increase.
Peas are also worth spraying on most years. Canola is a tougher decision.
Very similar to SWMan.
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Post by OptimallyDismal on Jun 23, 2024 6:41:47 GMT -6
I have had the attitude of when do you fungicide wheat, not if. The fusarium situation is too bad to ignore most years.
I have however, been hearing more about healthy soils not needing fungicide, and letting the beneficial fungi grow. Most of these rejuvenating products are compost based and synthetic fertilizers, fungicides, and sprays kill the beneficial organisms, still trying to sort that out, as I am not sure how to recognize the progress of the process.
Thinking the canola can fend for itself, according to the propaganda it should be resistant to everything anyway.
We got almost an inch of rain yesterday in half an hour, and some hail thrown in for fun.
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Post by kevlar on Jun 23, 2024 18:50:21 GMT -6
I think it might be one of those things that is area specific. We almost never spray fungicide, and when we do there has never been any difference between sprayed and unsprayed. Some guys spray religiously and from what I hear they’re yields are very similar to ours.
A year like this where stuff is laying in water and cold saturated ground, I think you’re praying for miracles to think that anything put on the crop is going to help anything. The only thing that can make a difference is four weeks of sun and heat.
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Post by carlos on Jun 24, 2024 9:37:51 GMT -6
Will do peas and lentils for sure, canola no,wheat will be a coin toss. Cuts into my fishing time!
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Post by MBRfarms on Jun 28, 2024 8:28:18 GMT -6
Wheat has always paid well for us to spray fungicide. Flagleaf pass side by sides showed 7bu on a dry year and 11bu the following year with more moisture, weighed and replicated. Flowering pass depends on crop/conditions, I air on the side of spraying it after some of the bad vomi years in the past but with some of the dry years recently we haven't sprayed nearly every year. Decades of hog manure on our heavy gumbo have made our land schlerotania heaven it seems, dry year or not we have pressure. Going to a wider row planter and low populations for our canola has made more difference than 10yrs of fungicide before we switched. Still plan to spray but have gone to the same approach as the flowering fungicide on wheat.
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