I agree with your Agronomist.Anyone putting on any? Agronomist recons no need to spray yet as cold nights even though the osr in full flower.
Am a member but can't find the 'sclerotinia risk charts' on the website... Any pointers where to find it @Brisel?@Fromebridge - please let me know if you'd rather I didn't put these up - I'm sure you recognise where this picture came from...
Just thought I'd post the odd taster of what resources members have at their fingertips...
Also bear in mind there was little or no germination in 2007 as it was too dry.BASF's sclerotinia monitoring site; http://www.agricentre.basf.co.uk/ag...ia_monitoring/osr_sclerotinia_monitoring.html
Bear in mind that BASF are selling products that manage the disease.
Am a member but can't find the 'sclerotinia risk charts' on the website... Any pointers where to find it @Brisel?
And that is the only year I didn't spray, boy did I regret it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never seen sclerotinia like it, never, ever again will I omit it, the crop just died on it's feet, or at least the majority of it did. All advice was too dry so no need to spray, how very wrong that was. It also happened to coincide with a hailstorm just before the crop was ready to cut, the dead plants from sclerotinia had little or no seed left most went from 28cwt an acre to 3cwtAlso bear in mind there was little or no germination in 2007 as it was too dry.
i agree totally, with the cold nights they say there is no pressure and I suppose are aiming for one spray programme, but I am nervous its going to be a protracted flowering period I am still wanting to go now and do a two spray approach but as you say its hard to keep the agronomist reigning in spend and then going over him on this?I'm with @Badshot in that despite all the conditions being wrong for schlerotinia to be an issue, I would still worry. It's going to be a long flowering period, there's still too much LLS about so I'm just working through our rapes to treat. Also there's the physiological greening from the Az. It's not good when you spend all season questioning the agronomist and cutting rates then demand a spend on the rape when he feels it's totally unjustified.