Canola seed treatment

[FarmJunkie]

If u can find some varieties that suit your area and agronomics with Buteo on them it seems to be way more effective than the old treatments. Not to say it will be effective long but definitely better in our trials last spring. Pressure was very high.

[GDR]

We don’t spray for flee beetles, I used to every year but they need to bite to die, so I finally decided 3 years ago, you know what I am just going to leave them.

It would drive me crazy the agronomist would come out and say “I’m seeing more flee beetles than I would like, we better give them a shot of something.” So now I have to stop the end of preseed burn off, falling behind there, meet the Chem rep somewhere, argue about thresholds for awhile and finally spray.

So in a very rare moment of clarity I fired the agronomist and quit spraying, I don’t care how many flee beetles I see. If I have to reseed I’ll reseed but haven’t had to yet. Saving nothing but money.

Joking aside in my opinion the most important trait when selecting a variety is early season vigor. That means overcoming the extreme mental deficiency that causes you to grow Nexerra’s of any kind.

I do like Lumiderm though as cutworms have gotten to be a bigger problem here every year, and so far it does a good job of that. I miss spraying Lorsban though, I liked the headaches and the extra finger that I was starting to grow.

Was kinda like that here for lygus bugs about 10/12 yrs ago. Agronomists and reps out scaring everyone how bad it was gonna be and we all panicked. A couple years dang near every acre got sprayed, planes buzzing everywhere. They showed up to do a field accross the road from my house and the wind was just howling, blowing right to my yard. Checked a few days later, still lots of bugs. I decided then I could risk a bit of canola damage in exchange for reducing health risks. Everyone else must have figured the same too because I havent seen a field sprayed in 8 or 9 yrs now. And yes they cause some damage but dont feel it is economically justified to spray, here.

Have only sprayed flea beetles once on a cold dry spring. I think we are fortunate here with the longer winters and colder nights and don't have the insect pressure that some areas do.