Canola do you spray Fungicide on a shitty crop or not?

[ado089]

Saskcan, a guaranteed 2:1 is a good investment, but what in farming is guaranteed? A the Scott research farm tour yesterday they reiterated that most cereal fungicide applications were a waste of money, peas are very hit and miss,but mostly miss. For canola you need to pay attention to the current canopy moisture, forecast, crop density, and presence of disease. They also warned that our current "just pray it" attitude puts us on the fast track to resistance.

[SASKFARMER3]

Bingo! I agree with what your saying on most!

[ado089]

I would way rather spend my money on BALANCED fertility. A healthy plant doesn't get disease. On my land 10# of K and a splash of copper has virtually eliminate disease. The beauty about fertility is that 95% of the time if this crop doesn't use it one in the future will.

[Klause]

Agree completely with you ado!


I get a kick out of all the fufu juice guys spray for ergot when a simple foliar copper top up solves the problem.




There's guys spraying fungicide by helicopter on fields of canola that are a foot tall in full bloom and there's bare ground you can see at 50 mile an hour from the road... like wtf is the point?

We didn't even top dress most of our canola. Has fertility for 20-25 bu and that's all it will produce anyway.

Peas got acapella this year again. Very dense canopy and wet all day...

Also did one quarter of wheat which had disease from water standing earlier. The rest is clean.

[cottonpicken]

Ya,generally pretty good,shouldnt have used the word average before,because what the hell is that anymore.

[farmaholic]

Bucket, I looked into Contans after our severe sclerotinia outbreak in 2012. It appears to be a product that needs incorporation after being sprayed on(which no one seems to want to do anymore). The label talks about a rain washing it down into fthe soil but I don't think you could just leave it sprayed on the surface and wait for a rain since it is a living organism. Sunlight and drying would likely kill it. Otherwise, I thought it wasn't a bad option.

[Oliver88]

Has anyone on here tried Contans?
How were results? Price/acre?

(Looks like it could work by spraying in fall than applying NH3 after to incorporate it.)

[Oliver88]

farmaholic

I don't know why they don't make a granular product that forces you to do the incorporation. Like a granular innoculant.

It also needs booster shots as well.


You hit it first with a higher rate, then additional boosters at a quarter rate, I think, in subsequent years.

But if applied in the fall, near a rain event I think it works out allright. Days are shorter and cooler.

I told myself to try that instead of all the other tracking passes, but haven't yet.

Looking at 2015, 14 is getting no more money other than preharvest for cleanup. The crop is a wreck.

Seeded the farm with hoe drill this year. Not wise in the ways of the hoe drill yet. Really ****ed up. Pounding rains just sealed up the dirt and water laid in the furrow too long.

[gustgd]

Ado. I missed the Scott tours yesterday. Although saw a few tweets.

Who was the presenter that said fungicides on cereals are a waste of time?

I've always felt they were quite useful and if I was to trim anything in cereals it would be preventative insecticide.