Fusarium Arrived two weeks later than normal this year!

[SASKFARMER3]

Just sick of this year and all the shit that's associated with to much moisture or Dew or fricking rain.
We sprayed our Wheat with Aceppella with herbicide then came back on some fields with Prosario etc. later.
Just out crop scouting and guess what the only thing that I can safely say is the guys who didn't spray any fungicides are screwed or really screwed. Now the other observation. The guys who sprayed and had a healthy plant right up till last weeks rain, their is really no difference between the Companies and their results. Damage is 30% at worst case and might blow out the back.
But the big difference is over paying for a product. I guess we should have sprayed again and again and again to beat this disease that has been around for a very long time.
Seed for all we pay for new varieties don't you think some one would have come up with something after all these years or do research dollars not go to a serious threat like this. Its easier to make money on farmers over and over even if the results with spray are poor to say the least.
Now I am not using a comparison to some one on the west side with mild outbreaks etc. I'm talking to guys in the flood zone where rain happens and heavy dew nights almost every second day.
High moisture areas do we have to use three or four applications and then have a lovely green crop that freezes in late sept when its finally ready.
Lots of questions but again it will cut yield.
Yield in a low price year is what pays the bills.
Stats Canada latest yield report wont show this for HRS because its just showing up the last 10 days.

[farmaholic]

SF3. The best you could hope for was suppression anyway, labels don't state control. At home here timing is tough when hill tops and sides are headed and low lying areas are barely coming out of the boot. We did spray and the fields don't look horrible but I see more fus than last year. I need to go look at someone's who didn't spray. I didn't intentionally leave any check strips.

As I said in a previous thread, my neighbor says we and other farmers who spend alot in the field buy our crops. I suppose there is an element of thruth to that but my intention is to sell it for more than I paid for it. But that can be challenging when the Industry wants us to spend more and more to produce and protect then we hopefully get enough out of the market to make some money, they tell us what they're paying regardless of what we spent. Makes perfect sense to me, and that is probably why I am a Primary Producer, LOL.

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes it's not as bad as the ones who did nothing.
But no real diff from all the fungicides even aceppella at flag did same control.

[Klause]

Acapella did lots for fusarium we found.


Tilt did sfa.

Probably 20 to 30% infection on sprayed fields. 30 to 50 on non sprayed.


5 years till we get true control of fusarium.


Or you could grow peas the year before wheat and don't spray with fungicide... will pretty much get rid of your fusarium issues.

[Rareearth]

Krause explain please.

Has anyone noticed any rotation better worse situations. Looks wide spread, similar to sclerotinia in canola few years back.

[Klause]

A natural bioagent was found in a fungus that lives on peas which infects and kills fusarium strains.

Clonostachys rosea strain ACM941 will kill fusarium.

It has been patented by an AAFC researcher and apparently go into production as a chemical control soon... few years.


European research has also isolated a similar but not identical strain of Clonostachys and work on commercializing it is continuing.


Fusarium/scab/tombstone is a major worldwide problem now.

[farmaholic]

Sure fire cure. Works everytime.

1-306-776-2397 or ask for one near you.

[farmaholic]

And for those who are having issues growing peas now on account of mycosphaerella/ascocyta/root rots?

[ColevilleH2S]

Farmaholic with both sellers and buyers fees, they'll take more money from ya than the fus. will.

[agchat]

Am I out to lunch here, but I thought i was told there is a link to fusarium and roundup. Probably a organic farmer told me that.

[Klause]

Does your wife drink roundup before she gets a yeast infection?


Fusarium in wheat is simply a different strain from the fusarium that makes your Mrs. Itchy... no link to glyphosate. Scab outbreaks have been ddocumented since the turn of the century.

[riders2010]

So you ve studied your wife's itchiness? And you don t think it's roundup? And it happens every time there is fusarium? ...........I have to find my glasses and reread this thread.

[hobbyfrmr]

In conclusion, keep spraying. Spray lots , spray hard. Buy a second sprayer to keep up with weeds and disease.
Look at SF3, up to 30% damage. He missed one extra fungicide application He's ****ed. His whole wheat crop, less yeild and probable down grade to feed. 3000 acres of feed wheat. Yuck! There is no money in that. That's a real money loser. It takes 3 years to recover from a hit like that.
Run to the store and get more spray. Hurry, act now, this offer has a limited time only.
There is no scientific correlation to glyphosate use and fusarium, there is no scientific correlation to glyphosate use and human health. It's all "hunches".

[riders2010]

It would not surprise me one bit if there were either pathogens themselves or chemical effect to the growth of our crops found right in the herbicide we buy that cause des ease to the plants we want to grow. We did not have this much crap in all our crops years ago.

[wmoebis]

Has there ever been a Gov't funded study YET? On the occurrence of yeast infection in organic farmers wives to conventional farmers wives?

You maybe on to something!