Back to peas again, but maybe not too soon in the rotation?

[the big wheel]

Any one notice a problem with liquid innoculant and dry fertilizer going through single shoot? A guy was telling me he does what he always does and never had problems but this year on the land that was dry he has root rot like symptoms. On fields that were wet he has a beautiful stand. He thinks it's fertilizer burn on the seed but is well within safe rates. All the holes in the field are good the hills are no good and he had a rather large rain after seeding so????

[farmaholic]

Right on Crestliner👍, we don't farm big so we do alot of cleaning.(not alot of acres between products) We use ammonia and All Clear or Clean Out(Can't remember, the actual name) lots of rinsing, nozzles and screens out, boom strainers cleaned, main filter cleaned. We try NOT to leave dry herbicides or suspension herbicides (white chalky shit) sit in the sprayer and booms without draining and even a light rinse before a major clean up a day or two later.

I hate the job!

[poorboy]

Could it be Rhizoctonia?

Talk has always been focused on Fusarium and Anphomyces for the root rots, but I am wondering about Rhizoctonia. Seems that it lives in the surface of the soil and is normally worse in dryer conditions. On my worst pea wrecks they often start dry after seeding and then get much worse in June when the rains come. Often it is around spraying time, so the herbicide puts that extra stress on and really damages them, but the problem is there, even if I dont spray. Australia has lots of Rhizoctonia problems and they seed deeper and use openers to fracture the tillage pan to get better crops.

Noticed here that the more disturbance the better the pea plants look from the road. Perhaps this reduces the Rhizoctonia. Heavy soils typically dont get much disturbance as the moisture is closer to the surface and deeper disturbance causes lumping problems. Perhaps Rhizoctonia is even worse on clay soils? Areas that I disked last fall are looking great in among the sick areas of the same field (similar soil types even). Because it is normally dryer here, there is no fall tillage or fall fertilizer used. Hoe drills with larger openers seem to have better plant health than narrow opener drills. John Deere 1870 drills can really fracture the tillage pan and yet seed shallower, wonder how they compare in high disease areas. Or would seeding 3" deep have healthier peas? I usually seed 1.25" deep and using a Bourgault paralink that is quite shallow from original soil surface. Some drills have 1.25" of soil cover but are actually 3" down from original soil surface.

Probably differences in seed treatments for Rhizoctonia control also. I have been using insure pulse lately and maybe it is weaker on some diseases. Or even pea variety responses to Rhizoctonia.