No, was thinking of BYDV as an example.
Anyone bothering with sclerotinia sprays?
- Thread starter Neddy flanders
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No, was thinking of BYDV as an example.
Yeh I was thinking more septoria programs but take you’re point. I agree BYDV is very difficult, we havnt used deter for a few years and seem to be okay with only very limited spraying where we chickened out. Not sure if it was okay because everyone else had it on though?
You might be right but I don’t know what area you are in. If you were in the far SW you might view BYDV in a different light. There is no cure, only prevention. In this area the risk is VERY high.
Farming down you’re way sounds like a right pain to be honest!
Yes, I don’t think it would suit you, your machinery or your lifestyle
Even @Banana Bar feels sorry for me sometimes
Never mind the Pheasant shooting is a whole lot better than up your way
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
You do have good pheasant shooting, but so does Suffolk. Suffolk is only a county one below Norfolk.Yes, I don’t think it would suit you, your machinery or your lifestyle
Even @Banana Bar feels sorry for me sometimes
Never mind the Pheasant shooting is a whole lot better than up your way
When you leave Norfolk, you leave the game behind!
But it’s mostly thanks to Sugar Beet IMO.
Have neighbors who have a lot of bydv despite the belt and braces approach
Define "control."
Repellency, immunity, camouflage (companion cropping), substitution of cropping for non susceptible ones, providing habitat for predators, avoiding emerged crops during peak aphid flight... all will reduce the impact of BYDV, even if it probably reduces the profitability of your winter wheat & farm...
An understanding that healthy plant need healthy soils and healthy plants get sick or predated less
Research shows connections between worm numbers and bydv and few better markers of soil health than worm numbers exist imo
Herbicides reduce brix making plants vulnerable etc ?
Lots of reasons many of which not understood or properly researched yet
Yes it's all about soil health IMO, fields are alive with ladybirds even when the weather was frosty and hash, could that be because of no insecticide use?? I would like to think so
You used a lot of long words there
Us is only simple folk down yer
You're far smarter than I am! Better taste in cars too.
I was only trying to think around a problem rather than just seeing the loss of the main management methods used currently.
Feldspar
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- Location
- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
Yes, I don’t think it would suit you, your machinery or your lifestyle
Even @Banana Bar feels sorry for me sometimes
Never mind the Pheasant shooting is a whole lot better than up your way
Yes, but we can bring our guns down your way, whereas you can't bring your fields up our way when you fancy dropping the septoria pressure!
Feldspar
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- Essex, Cambs and Suffolk
When I last looked spore counts were still low for our area. I bet on more rain than we got and with wind last week we did about half at the beginning of last week. Some at 0.5 l Proline and some at 0.4l. In hindsight it probably wasn't needed. Still green light on the latest AHDB risk report. Not going to do any more until we get a red light and by then the flowering might be over in most part.
Patched the best bits today with 0.0 - 0.5L Proline, got more Proline left over than I thought I would.
another week of overnight frost coming up. jeez...
Will be interested if you see any MOIC
My bet and experience here is you won’t
Please measure at harvest if you can and revisit this thread ?
- Location
- Darlington
I did mine just before the last rain, rightly or wrongly. I would be more annoyed if it hadn'r rained.