Sclerotinia pics inside canopy--yikes

[furrowtickler]

Have a nieghbor with 4-5 year rotation with smf all the time. 30% or more infection.
Continuous cropping not helping but not the cause, simply a perfect set up for sclerotina and an unlucky very warm winter to exagerate the aster leaf hopper problem.
We all have been warned for a few years that sclerotina could be a very big problem if conditions were set up right early in the season. Unless you live in Alaska you should of been aware of this.

[SASKFARMER3]

Biggest problem when guys have bad sclerotina is
to swath to early.

[SASKFARMER3]

Also have another question. Why only one or two
awesome stocks, and hundreds of little skinny
ones. Volunteer, brown bag,poor fertility or what.

[farmaholic]

Sask: Without being too sarcastic--I mentioned to hopperbin the lack of last years stubble was because of harrowing and this pic is on the headlands(maybe explains heavier plant population also???). Seeded probably slightly higher than 5 lbs./ac and being on headlands double that. We pay attention to seed and fert placement to get as many of the near $10.00/lb shit growing. I do not brown bag seed, I know guys who do and guys who blend cert and binrun. If 240 lbs./ac of fert is poor fertility I would hate to have your fert bill. The rotation of this 1/2 section was disclosed so how do you suspect volunteers?

[SASKFARMER3]

Not judging you just trying to figure out. Some
years you just have to say oh well their is always
next year.

[farmaholic]

I'm a little thin skinned this year, and feeling a bit beat-up after the late June windstorm and the disease outbreak on some of my acres. Mother Nature is putting me back in place, she can be a cruel beach.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yea she has a way of straitening one out. Three
years of mud I'm way more mellow.