2025 field work
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We're closing in 2500 GDU's since mid April, more than enough to black layer some early season corn in the area in a normal year, coupled with the early death from southern rust I suspect there's some corn a fair amount drier than that out there.
Someone on I think agtalk from southern IA said they had some 26% figured they would be rolling next week on it
guy next to town has his first field done. already spread his honey as well. smelled great
Do we import fertilizer from a country in Africa, I think. And several years, 4-5? an import tariff was slapped on it? Is that still the case?
Some folks in West Central IA did two apps. Rumors of a couple that did three, but I don't have first hand acknowledgement.
A lot of first pass fungicide put on way too late in a panic after rust set in.
How late would you call too late for first pass?
Only did one pass on acres.
Some got done July 13th before I saw any disease. Generally the cleanest fields but certainly have significant rust in them at this point. Plants are still alive.
Some got done July 26th. First noticed the rust July 20th but given the rain there was a significant delay for aerial application. Generally these fields are worse than the first group but most plants are still gamely clinging to life.
Some went unsprayed, outside a notable variety, maybe 2, these fields/parts of fields look universally terrible with numerous dropped ears, basically dead plants, all before black layer.
Based on what I'm seeing I suspect fungicide will pay this year even if you waited until you spotted rust as long as you didn't push things well into August.
Quite a bit that went on 3-4 weeks after tassel, first week of August timeframe. Going to get some benefit but not to the degree of properly timed application.
Just a novice here, not a farmer, but on our detour around grand junction on the way to the game yesterday we saw fields all brown and done. Nothing in western iowa that looks anything like it. Still all green here. I thought I was looking at early planted or short day hybrids to space out harvest, but was I looking at rust?
Are you sure you weren’t looking at a seed field? Seed harvest has begun in my area. Many companies are spraying the physiologically mature corn with a salt solution to cause premature death and uniform harvest moistures
There is also some tar spot, NCLB, and GLS In that neighborhood to varying degrees. But yes, those specific fields got decimated by rust. They progressed very quickly over about a 2-week period
There's quite a few seed fields in that neighborhood but those specific ones have not been dessicated yet.
Pioneer has a plant in Algona to process and bag seed corn. Pioneer sprays a salt water solution on seed corn so it dies. They pick the corn about 10 days later to start the process. Could be a seed field for the company by Hwy 30 and 169 ?
Planting dates? Early planted corn might have more southern rust. More on this later. Keep up with Extension info that comes out. We might be drying wet corn if rust is best.
