Seed Treatment

[Davylad]

Anyone use “Tiros” seed dressing last autumn?…. Secondly do many of you
use any seed treatment on HSS … I was thinking of sowing this autumn with no seed dressing.. Any opinions would be helpful… thanks

 

[Chae1]

Test the seed. Then treat it if test shows it needs it.

 

[Davylad]

Anything in particular.. I don’t mean germination… do you always send seed away irrespective? … do you clean it with a dresser or straight from the heap ? Thanks @Chae1

 

[Chae1]

Anything in particular.. I don’t mean germination… do you always send seed away irrespective? … do you clean it with a dresser or straight from the heap ? Thanks @Chae1

We have a mobile drier so it makes a pretty good job of cleaning it.

I always get it tested, loose smut, ergot, fusarium would be things they test for. Just ask for a full seed test.

We have tested this years winter barley and it's fine, so will get sown straight out the heap. This years spring barley had quite high fusarium levels so treated it. But ran short of seed and drilled some untreated and its harvested now and done fine.

 

[Davylad]

Great .. thanks

 

[Chae1]

There's loads of threads on here about it if you do a search. It was tff that made me stop treating it.

Grudged the almost 5k bill for treating seed this spring after not paying for it for a few years.

Just need to remember to declare it to BSPB and pay royalties. Just pay on a per ha basis for Hss.

 

[Davylad]

It’s this very forum has me thinking about using seed with no dressing… I’m dreading what the merchants will charge for seed this year .. intend using mostly my own .. growing rye for first time so will have to be hybrid … ! Cheers

 

[Flasheart]

I have been thinking, a dangerous thing, would a lot of these seed born diseases be treated by normal fungicide treatments? Seems to me that seed treatment dates back to before we had any post emergence fungicides.