2025 field work
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As a seed company employee who handled it often it went from “safe as table salt” to a carcinogen and banished from use overnight. Never believe the “common knowledge“ on chemical safety. You can’t believe the makers to know or to level with anyone truthfully.
Not the first year, but did you read the article? It says we have already killed 1/2 of the bees in 2025. Not up to that point but 1/2 the bee population that we started the year with is already been killed by the first of June or earlier.
I have a problem field and I hit dicamba as soon after spike that I can. Then come back with a post spray.
Some states , and parts of states have banned captan use. But not all states. Seems it is used in fruits and vegetables mostly. pioneer has seed fields next to us so they spray fungicide on every field, sometimes twice.
I have heard, as others have mentioned Pioneer corn seems to be struggling in several ways this year.
Found what looks like my first SDS Ieaf on a soybean plant last night. Something else to fight.
If you're not really well tiled the beans are certainly going backwards here, just too much time with wet feet.
Yeah, the mentality was always that it's too valuable to risk it. I worked for a large company that ran 3 passes of fungicide and 2 passes of insecticide on every seed corn acre, every single year. Sometimes a third pass of insecticide depending on insect pressure and PHI. This was a decade or more ago though. Resistance through traits is very hit or miss on female inbreds.
There's no fighting this year. That battle has been decided, it's just a matter of finding out who won.
Most people don’t want to know how many passes the sweet corn gets that they buy in the grocery store. It makes the seed corn passes look ho-hum.
idk about the health risks of insecticide as I am not a molelcular biologist or health professional. However, as a working agricultural economist, I can confidently say that as long as we get one good rain in August this is gonna be a record crop, BY A LOT
Maybe, maybe not. Crops are at maximum eye appeal right now where they aren't in over-saturated ground. Stalk rots, leaf diseases, ear rots, denitrification, ad infinitum thrive in this kinda weather. The hay is a long ways from the barn yet.
Some places are going big, but there’s a lot of stuff not far north of Highway 20 that’s suffering bad. Crops look mostly good in my neighborhood but the soil is full. Not sure we even need that August rain to finish things off.
Yup and I am struggling. I have had 20” plus in the last 2 months and there are a lot of farmers worse then that. Several things going after my crops, and you can’t let them run wild. Trying a couple biological products this year, hope they are good as advertised?
Guys up here can’t harvest their oats. Combines getting stuck. Oat test weight is to low to meet standards, so, they doc you or they don’t want them. We will see, harvest will be fun. If it stays wet roads will be full of mud.
Delaro 8oz @ $24 + insecticide 4oz @ $3 & Chopper @ $15. This was prepaid in December 2024. We had 1.7” last night. Chopper applied on SB’s @ 9:30 am. Briefly showered hard @ 10:30 am and spit off and on rest of morning. I know if I ask the chemical rep if it’s rain fast in an hour they’ll say no problem. But I guess we’ll find out.
There’s always some bad pockets even in the best years. However, the data: USDA reported crop conditions are really good across almost every state. I think this will be a great year. Only concern is did growers put down enough P given these usurious prices
