Fungicide costs

[Feldspar]

gaps have been fine just everything this season has been pushed a bit later so far (not by plan more circumstance with weather at time)

late cool spring has made this possible I guess without seeing more disease

We screwed up some of ours and the gap was nearly 4 weeks between T1 and T2. Time may tell how much that mistake will cost us.

 

[Hampton]

£8.50+£23.50+£37 = £69.00 ???

or

£8.50+£23.50+£33= £ 65.00 ?

think your calculator needs new batteries ?

Apologies, comes from not concentrating properly.

 

[Clive]

Apologies, comes from not concentrating properly.

thought maybe a supply agronomist company might have given you a free calculator for Christmas

 

[Daniel]

Herbicides do depend on different fields but generally I've been going for wheat;

Roundup pre plant - 3l/ha plus acidifier/sticker about £12/ha
PDM pre em 2-3l ha £15/ha
Broadway Star £28/ha
Starane/ Jubilee £22 /ha

But some fields not had Broadway, some not had PDM and some not needed Starane etc. but cleavers, groundsel, rbwh can get carried away.

So its prudent to say herbicides probably are around £75/ha more or less. I have wondered if I should ditch everything and just do one dose of Pacifica or something that will do a good job on nearly everything just once.

I think I overdid the fungicide at T2 this year. I think its too pricey.

This is interesting, I was talking to a couple of DowAgroscience employees who sucked air through their teeth and suggested we'd done wrong using Pacifica because their Broadway Star would be cheaper. But you need the PDM to go with it pre emergent to tidy up the AMG here, so he's at £43/ha (Silliams prices, does it include adjuvants?) plus two spray passes, let's say £20/ha there, total £63/ha, chuck in a T0 from above at £9/ha (subject to label approval) applied with the BStar, total = £72/ha

My Pacifica at 300g/ha plus Biopower cost £36/ha (serviced) and went on with the t0, however the t0 was 0.5lt Capalo at £16/ha for approval as opposed to the £8-10 options quoted above. Plus a spray pass at £10 = £62

The Pacifica also means it only needed 2lt/ha of 3C for growth reg.

Edit: this was earlier drilled winter wheat, later drilled after beet was treated differently. One cause for concern is that in one field some ryegrass has slipped through the net.

 

[Hampton]

This is interesting, I was talking to a couple of DowAgroscience employees who sucked air through their teeth and suggested we'd done wrong using Pacifica because their Broadway Star would be cheaper. But you need the PDM to go with it pre emergent to tidy up the AMG here, so he's at £43/ha (Silliams prices, does it include adjuvants?) plus two spray passes, let's say £20/ha there, total £63/ha, chuck in a T0 from above at £9/ha (subject to label approval) applied with the BStar, total = £72/ha

My Pacifica at 300g/ha plus Biopower cost £36/ha (serviced) and went on with the t0, however the t0 was 0.5lt Capalo at £16/ha for approval as opposed to the £8-10 options quoted above. Plus a spray pass at £10 = £62

The Pacifica also means it only needed 2lt/ha of 3C for growth reg.

Edit: this was earlier drilled winter wheat, later drilled after beet was treated differently. One cause for concern is that in one field some ryegrass has slipped through the net.

Unite is 13.50/ac and does quite big meadow grass. Did a great job on my place this year despite not going on until end of March. Surprised they didn't mention it to you instead of Broadway

 

[SilliamWhale]

Moving this thread up to this bit killed it!

 

[down n'dirty]

Didn't mean to put a spanner in the works but with everyone worrying about the last few pence they were spending on their fungicide bill I thought it would be interesting to look at the total spray bill. Obviously depressed everybody, particularly if they're anything like mine! With T3 now done, total fungicide costs are £107/ha and herbicides,trace elements, growth regs and preplanting round-up come to another £66/Ha!
As I said before though, it is a milling wheat and we have chucked everything at it-just hope it makes the grade!

 

[stroller]

Moving this thread up to this bit killed it!

Can't we have it back on the main cropping thread?

 

[In the mud]

Interesting thread. Last spring my fungicide programme was,

T0 0.75l/ha generic opus nz$ 21/ha
T1 1.0l/ha generic opus nz$ 28/ha
T2 1.25l/ha adextar + 0.5 l/ha generic opus nz$ 127/ha
T3 0.5l/ha generic opus + 0.4 l/ha comet nz$ 54/ha

Total nz$230/ha which would have been about 115 pounds/ha at the time or 12 pounds per tonne. Wet, wet year.

To much epoxi i know but we can't use bravo. We are being encouraged to use sdhi's at T1 as well this coming year will it be worth it??

 

[B'o'B]

Interesting thread. Last spring my fungicide programme was,

T0 0.75l/ha generic opus nz$ 21/ha
T1 1.0l/ha generic opus nz$ 28/ha
T2 1.25l/ha adextar + 0.5 l/ha generic opus nz$ 127/ha
T3 0.5l/ha generic opus + 0.4 l/ha comet nz$ 54/ha

Total nz$230/ha which would have been about 115 pounds/ha at the time or 12 pounds per tonne. Wet, wet year.

To much epoxi i know but we can't use bravo. We are being encouraged to use sdhi's at T1 as well this coming year will it be worth it??

Not if you can keep your timings bang on is my feeling. I've done a few tramline trials this year to have a check, it was very dry here at T1 timing here, so if it shows up this year it will be a given for next year.

 

[In the mud]

I'm thinking i'll just use a sdhi at T2 again this year. There's not much disease in the crop at the moment and I haven't much grass at the moment so the T0 will likely be a mob of sheep.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Reckon fungicides for WW are costing me about £15 a ton.

Fungicides for winter barley £4t