The drought is getting real

[farmaholic]

Predicting rain is like predicting the lottery winner....where will it be and how much will you have to possibly share with other players.

That high pressure ridge thats building will likely only have one result!

Lets hope something evolves to break it down before too long. Or it spawns some thundershowers... but where is the moisture going to come from....you can't "irrigate" from a dry reservoir!!!!

Hang in there ladies and gentlemen this probably wont be pretty. Special shout out to the cattle producers in the dry areas!

[sofa.king]

Today was a taste of what's to come yikes. Need a bigger cooler 6 beer won't make 9 holes in this heat.

[stonepicker]

And then he was gone! You gonna pay the carbon tax wiseguy?

[tweety]

We all know fungicides hurt 80% more than they help . They only help retails ....

So which is it? Smart farmers spraying fungicides knowing it hurts almost twice as much as it helps, or they're not that smart considering most acres are sprayed with fungicide 'just in case' because they don't know the downside?

[SASKFARMER3]

Lotto winner happening right now five miles north of our yard Lucky buggers.

[furrowtickler]

Smart farmers are using crop nutrition to prevent disease , not fungicides for the reason you just pointed out

[tweety]

Crop nutrition creates disease which has been demonstrated repeatedly by the organic industry. Fungicides are not required without added nutrients. Fungicides attempt to fix the problems with a high yielding, lush crop.

However the continual use creates even more problems by eliminating beneficial fungus so only the strong nasty survive, like fusarium. Taking out all its competition allows it to survive and thrive.

Its a vicious frickin circle and we all do it. Smart or not.

[furrowtickler]

I would say your correct, but it's an overuse of N and not enough attention to the micros. A lot of these herbicides and pre burn chemistry are tying up essential micro's combined with higher loads of N that's creating this disease mess .
And I agree with you 100% on the fungicide thing.

[farmaholic]

We as an industry have been applying pesticides for years and still haven't eradicated targeted weeds, insects and as of late, fungi. I will never argue that applications of fungicides are harder on certain populations of fungi than others.... because I simply don't know. In fact we all know how Mother Nature has evolved and gave us resistant weeds, are insects and fungi next to develop resistance? In keeping with the theme of this thread..... Mother Nature will be doing a fantastic job of "controlling" not "suppressing" disease this coming week(here anyway). Hard on the crop none-the-less but probably many times more the efficacy of what you put in the sprayer tank!

[furrowtickler]

Yup agree farma , the next 24 hrs here will tell the tale . If no rain and the heat / sun does crank up , not a drop 💧 of fungicide going on here.