Wheat midge

[jake550]

Didn't see any midge yet last night.
Anyone else seeing any or enough for spraying?

[bucket]

Good thing guys mention it so the elevators don't forget to put it on their checklists for downgrading.

[bucket]

And since the chemical companies can't convince farmers of a fungicide app maybe they can apply insecticide.

And while your at it throw in a fungicide. Lol.

[fjlip]

Utmost tolerant wheat killing the midge, f*ck 'em. One good rain probably hatched the bastards.

[farmaholic]

I think its too dry here for the midge to go from pupal to adult stage. And what would I be protecting anyway? Can you imagone what the wheat sample is going to look like without rain?

[TOM4CWB]

Will be frosty no doubt.

[farmaholic]

Lol. Yeah.

[bucket]

Frost heat stress smudge fuzz midge

Can you add any more to get the grade to feed.

Although that might end too. They might have to start calling it a number 1 to reduce the price from where feed wheat might be.

[Oliver88]

What is the best insecticide for midge?

Lorsban?

[jake550]

We've always sprayed Lorsban and it's worked well.
Believe me I don't want to have to spray anything or spend more $ on poor looking crop. But in our experience some years the yield loss is far worse than the down grading from midge.

[freewheat]

None here, but then the wheat has no heads yet...