Fungicides

[seabass]

Wheat pays for us

[furrowtickler]

Totally depends if moisture conditions are right . Locally this year - driest May/June since '01/02.
So conditions were no where near favourable to even start the disease cycle in any crop. The ground surface under the crop has been bone dry 85% of that time = no way disease can get going. We just did a few fields for seed and a few low lying fields , the rest is on it's own. Ground surface is still dry after the hit and miss rains over the past 6 days . We totalled lest than 1/2 in over that 6 days . Any rain or wet conditions here foreward may start disease but it will have a very low impact on yield even if conditions for disease development is perfect.
The last 8-10 years it's been a no brainer and has paid in 90% of every application 3-1 at least.

[farmaholic]

Furrow, if your headers are out text me some pictures of the poly strips please. 306 535 0626.

[sawfly]

not any science to my decision not
spray a drop this year.
it is just that dry, and poorish crops.
i know some around here, sprayed their peas. and swear by it.
i know ag canada at scott has said
whether it payed or not some years.
that would probably be the only results i would trust.

we need more of that kind of info.
the same as seed treatments.
rather have hard numbers than chem. co bs

[SASKFARMER3]

I agree sawfly. We rely on what companies tell us but when we see little to no results they say it was a light year. Then like a few years ago they tell me sorry you sprayed once it was a year you could have sprayed every day for a week and still might not have had a result you wanted. They win we lose very simple explanation.

[freewheat]

Guys around here tried headline on flax. Once. The delay in maturity and frost problems were a far worse issue than the supposed "yield boost" from the fungi app.

Beware, depending on your growing conditions.

And a big, honking, fat PLUS ONE to sawfly. We need real life research farm results on this stuff, not your neighbors "results" especially the neighbors who spray every acre 17 times. Do we think these yahoos are actually going to say it DOESN'T pay? lol I have never heard one of them say it was a waste of money. Which I find telling. The years I spray, I generally see no difference, at least no big difference, but our area is so not normal for Sask, that who knows?

Pick a number out of the air, they do.

"So, John, did headline pay on your flax this year?"

"Why yes, Tim, gave us another 9 bushels an acre."

Yeah. Riggggghhhhhhttttttt. "Why did the sprayed portion turn that sick brown after the September 9th frost, while the unsprayed was dead ripe?" lol

I dunno. Happy for the guys who all these apps work for. Mystified as to why they fail for me and a few of my neighbors who are more open about it.

[tweety]

If you have a 4 or 5 year rotation then your fungicide results will be very different then your neighbor who grows only wheat and canola

[freewheat]

Thank you Tweety!

[tweety]

What's funny is after i wrote that and hit return to discussion, i read yours!

[sawfly]

i know a few years ago , spraying the wheat payed big time .for me .
last year i took the advice from here . (agriville) about not delaying maturity .
and did not spray the wheat.
got 2-3 on them except for last seeded field , feed


and a guy i know , had every wheat field he sprayed go feed.
the rest was 2 and 3.