Sclerotina alert....

[SASKFARMER3]

And sclerotina is also their.

[fjlip]

Mother Nature playing the wind, rain and hail cards all of July in our area.

[Potashprincess]

well said furrowtickler, the varieties are good yielding and they offer considerable control of sclerotinia...In 2011 we actually couldn't get to some fields because of wet weather and staging, at least with S varieties you are proctected to a considerable level.

[Potashprincess]

Wdg, there is so such thing as 100% resistance as in the case of blackleg...but if it makes you feel better they can call a 80% sclerotinia tolerant "resistant" in the future to mimic the blackeleg rating system.

[wd9]

Never said 100%, said resistant.

Perhaps some definitions would help.

With respect to a disease-susceptible
plant,

disease resistance: a reduction of
pathogen growth on or in the plant.

disease tolerance: are plants that have
less disease damage despite similar
levels of pathogen growth.

For example, RR canola is tolerant, not
resistant to glyphosate.

Pathology is not an easy topic. And also
not one for a marketing discussion forum
LOL.

[Potashprincess]

Meant to say "no such thing" oops

[furrowtickler]

Whatever the definition is or should be I know for a fact that the disease resistance or tolerance is real and working as advertised. Like you said wd9 , and I agree , the weigh wagon and final results will tell.
All i know, is that right now in this area and probably many others, the sclerotina infection levels are the highest I've ever seen . We were all warned, and conditions were more favorable than in recent memory. Some areas though, it was near impossible to get out to spray due to consistant wet conditions, and some crop was not worth spraying at the time.

[wd9]

Lets not let science and definitions get
in the way of a good discussion.

I eagerly await your weigh wagon results.

[wd9]

Oh and one quick question. Where you are about to use the weigh wagon, are they strip and or replicated trials on the same land seeded the same day, sprayed the same day, swathed with full header the same way, harvested the same way with the same combine treated exactly the same following good protocol? Not on different fields or opposite ends of fields or different farmers and equipment? But side by side fairly?