Leaf Disease in HRS Barley and Durum!

[may-be]

Barleyman..I agree tilt realy pays off. But when your crop is already yellow I think the stage been set for the year. Any experiance with this?

[BreadWinner]

Im afraid you guys are going to be fighting a battle that you will never win.

[Barleyman]

May-be Yes we have experience with this. Just about any fungicide applied at spraying time will "hold" the crop from going backward at least it won't get worse. If you are really yellow you will likely suffer some yield loss. When the sun comes out though, your cereal crop will be far better off than a crop that wasn't given a half strength treatment, and it will recover a lot faster. Always spray tilt etc. on your cereal with herbicide, always, it pays ten fold.

[ado089]

I used to beleive that until last year when alot of people put tilt in with their lorsban...by far it made a bigger difference then any other timing I've seen.

[sawfly]

great thread
don;t do a lot of fungicide, except tilt in barley, but this year it may be in order.
when you do it with your weed spray'
is there any reduction in control?
wild oats or broad leaf?
Breadwinner , you said it would delay
maturity 2 weeks, unless the sun shines I
don't know if I can afford 2 weeks.

would one shot be worth it with less delay?

[SASKFARMER3]

we have done the half rate and had excellent results. The plant is sick this does help it fight disease and when sun does ever shine its off to races.

[BreadWinner]

Four years ago we had winter wheat that had disease before flag and it didnt matter how many times you sprayed it it still did poorly. It just turned browner every day, you could see the disease from the road. It was a wet spring like this and it is just a haven for spreading. If your spray rig will stay on top with narrow tires go at it but Im betting it wont. Spray early with full rate and at flag and folicur in head and hope it makes it. Just remember wheat is worth $3.50 not $6.50/bus.