Im going to go against the grain here,and suggest that unless your seeing a reason to treat consider saving some dollars.
I go with resistant hybrids and most yrs don't need to treat.
I hope it works well for yoywhichever way you decide.
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I go with resistant hybrids and most yrs don't need to treat.
I hope it works well for yoywhichever way you decide.
I agree with you NWICY. Here is last year's bean results but the corn was the same; Not significantly different means you are paying 32-40 bucks for as good of chance of a yield decrease as an increase. If a seed guy sells me a number that is so suseptable that I need pray and spray (AND pay), I'm getting a different seed guy.
Statewide evaluation of foliar fungicides on soybeans in 2024 in Iowa
The effect of fungicide applications was not statistically significant for BSX (P = 0.96). Similarly, treatments did not show a significant effect on overall yield (P = 0.31) across the seven locations (Figure 2). In 2024, overall soybean yield was greater than in 2023 and 2022 (Dangal et al. 2024, Nieto et al. 2023).
BTW check the plots for the last 10 years. I think most years show the NTC is statistically as good as the treated. Maybe every year?
Found a bit of southern rust in a field yesterday. Found some a field in mid August last year and it expanded crazy fast and, while I don't have a test strip to compare it against, despite looking like the best field by far for most the year it had disappointing results in the fall.
The ISU opinion around fungicide applications has not been consistent with real world results. I don't know why that is and I don't really care to speculate why it is. Absent disease pressure, two years ago check strips ranged from 12-23 bushels across 800 acres on our farm. Nearly zero visible disease pressure. What fungicides do is not limited to disease mitigation. The SDHI component. in my opinion, is more important as it extends grain fill substantially allowing for more grain weight. Then you have the benefit of slowing down respiration as well, which is a very big deal when you get into a stretch of warm nights like we're going to have here over the next week or so.
It's a multi-faceted application that does a number of things and can pay in multiple ways beyond just controlling disease.
Spray that ****. We had that set in late last year, which didn't matter w hole lot because everything was garbage by that point anyway, but many it at up what was left.
In spite of the "naming", I'd agree.
Isn't $27 for fungicide really expensive? I figured with Veltema is around $18/acre, Insecticide & adjuvants around $4-5/acre and plane at $10.50/acre. So somewhere around $33/acre.
Not sure if it will pay. Need 8 bushel to breakeven, but with how big I think our yields will be, I don't think crop insurance will be a factor unless the price takes around big move down.
