Pasmo in Flax

[farmaholic]

Anyone use Headline on their flax crop this year? Second year in a row the harvested sample will be light weight and look like shit. I was stupid enough to use last years seed(that looked crappy and light) for this years production and you can guess the results of that without an appication of fungicide. I don't think I will be able to grow flax without a fungicide application in the future unless it gets droughted out. Articles I have read claim it is seed and residue borne and that some varities are more susceptible than others.

Hopefully others can learn from this post if I am too stupid to not heed the dangers of knowingly using infected seed and not apply the fungicide. I am sure the cost of the fungicide would have easily been recovered if the crop was treated. (Also, Headline cost is reduced with use of certain other BASF products)

[cottonpicken]

Fungicide is now a must in flax,i also found out the
hard way.

[wd9]

Why not post this in crops? If no one does, then no one goes there. Chicken and egg scenario.

Don't mean to single you out but there are a lot of crops or machinery posts in the marketing one that would increase traffic in those groups.

[farmaholic]

Point well taken wd9 but there is little traffic there, but posting everything else here doesn't help that matter!!!

[wd9]

It is a tough one. I've been trying to post more things there. Hope others will too.