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Anybody NOT t2-ing, t1-ing etc because of frosts
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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 6952547" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>I am not putting a T2 on my wheats.</p><p></p><p>The chemical companies have done a good job on most of us. In fact they have done a really good job on us!</p><p>Not helped by the farming press that also scare us into putting on stuff that we don’t need in a year like this. No sooner have we got a T1 on, that they start talking about T2 strategies.</p><p></p><p>My agronomist Keith and I have been entering our local Syngenta fungicide challenge for the past 10 years or so. Time after time it has proven that fungicides in a dry year like this one here are a waste of money, rarely getting back the cost. Yes, if we have a normal year, there is a return on our investment. And in a wet year that can be a very good investment.</p><p></p><p>So here we are having done a good job at T1, having stopped yellow rust and septoria, with virtually no rain since in the 3-4 weeks since it was done, crops as clean as a whistle and being panicked into putting a T2, just before the ears are coming out.</p><p></p><p>No thanks. It is very nearly the end on May and I’ll hold off till T3 in early June, to do the whole job in one go.</p><p>I’ll probably use Wolverine (metconazole, fluxapyroxad) and Vivid (pyraclostobin) and forget any multisite.</p><p></p><p>What is the point of spending on a clean crop that is obviously yield limited in a drought year like this anyway?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Honestly, the way we have all been duped, you’d think that unless we don’t put all these fungicides on, the crop will just curl up and die. It won’t!</p><p>Then we are persuaded that they only last 3 weeks. Which they also don’t!</p><p>Especially in a year like this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 6952547, member: 44728"] I am not putting a T2 on my wheats. The chemical companies have done a good job on most of us. In fact they have done a really good job on us! Not helped by the farming press that also scare us into putting on stuff that we don’t need in a year like this. No sooner have we got a T1 on, that they start talking about T2 strategies. My agronomist Keith and I have been entering our local Syngenta fungicide challenge for the past 10 years or so. Time after time it has proven that fungicides in a dry year like this one here are a waste of money, rarely getting back the cost. Yes, if we have a normal year, there is a return on our investment. And in a wet year that can be a very good investment. So here we are having done a good job at T1, having stopped yellow rust and septoria, with virtually no rain since in the 3-4 weeks since it was done, crops as clean as a whistle and being panicked into putting a T2, just before the ears are coming out. No thanks. It is very nearly the end on May and I’ll hold off till T3 in early June, to do the whole job in one go. I’ll probably use Wolverine (metconazole, fluxapyroxad) and Vivid (pyraclostobin) and forget any multisite. What is the point of spending on a clean crop that is obviously yield limited in a drought year like this anyway? Honestly, the way we have all been duped, you’d think that unless we don’t put all these fungicides on, the crop will just curl up and die. It won’t! Then we are persuaded that they only last 3 weeks. Which they also don’t! Especially in a year like this. [/QUOTE]
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