Flag leaf fully emerged on the KWS Extase so the T2 has gone on today. Applying 1.25L/Ha Revystar + 5Kg EpsoTop. View attachment 1034475
You get any rain last week?
You can put newer chemistry on at a lower rate if you wish. You would hope it would be as effective as old chemistry at a higher rate and potentially a similar cost.What fungicide are people going to use at T2 where the yield protental is going to lower or not quite top notch so probably not worth spending £££ so much on ?
It so depends on the variety and what disease potential there is. T2 is the most cost efficient timing, but if there is not any disease present and the weather looks dry, why bother on crops that aren’t going to give a decent yield?What fungicide are people going to use at T2 where the yield protental is going to lower or not quite top notch so probably not worth spending £££ so much on ?
I think one also has to consider how closely a crop maybe monitored and how quickly one can get over the acreage if needed.It so depends on the variety and what disease potential there is. T2 is the most cost efficient timing, but if there is not any disease present and the weather looks dry, why bother on crops that aren’t going to give a decent yield?
If there is disease present and the variety is susceptible, then give it a suitable rate of T2 to control the disease and provide some future protection, then shut the gate. T3’s are the least most cost effective unless it suddenly turns wet in June.
If the crop never looked promising earlier, but was disease free, hopefully you didn’t bother with a T1 and certainly not a T0.
Funny how we spend so much time talking about fungicides, when in reality they are the least most cost effective products we put through the sprayer, unless disease pressures are high.
We seem obsessed with the T timings. T0 is probable a waste of time now we have lost CTL. Only bother with a T1 as long as the crop has potential. As long as there is at leat some potential give it a T2 and only a T3 if there is potential and threatening wet weather in June.
If you have a particularly disease resistant variety, you’d be amazed how well it will do without much, if any fungicides, unless it is a particularly wet weather year.
I’ve got 2 fields that are the same.I know it fly's in the face of modern thinking but I work for a business man we have some really dirty fields of wheat ie Blackgrass and Ryegrass which I would was educated to not tolerate.but he thinks differently to me it will really knock the yield ( yes I know it's all wrong ) but I just wondered whether it's worth spending so much on when we will never see a return on investment
Hey up @An Gof
I was looking at a field of barley headed right up in the South Hams 2 weeks ago....I said to the fella 'that can't be right', he agreed.
I thought you'd be impressed I knew I'd seen something odd in any arable crop!Seeing on this thread about spraying wheat @egbert is a surprise It’s the equivalent of seeing the local Wesleyan Methodist Preacher stood at the bar buying everyone a beer
our problem or should I say my problem is my employer likes milling wheats mainly Skyfall and Zyatt both yellow rust varieties and yellow rust has been and still is present so T0 T 1 have been aimed at this so I can see a payback and I will include teb at T 2 but what to partner it with ? Folpet prosaro and ???It so depends on the variety and what disease potential there is. T2 is the most cost efficient timing, but if there is not any disease present and the weather looks dry, why bother on crops that aren’t going to give a decent yield?
If there is disease present and the variety is susceptible, then give it a suitable rate of T2 to control the disease and provide some future protection, then shut the gate. T3’s are the least most cost effective unless it suddenly turns wet in June.
If the crop never looked promising earlier, but was disease free, hopefully you didn’t bother with a T1 and certainly not a T0.
Funny how we spend so much time talking about fungicides, when in reality they are the least most cost effective products we put through the sprayer, unless disease pressures are high.
We seem obsessed with the T timings. T0 is probable a waste of time now we have lost CTL. Only bother with a T1 as long as the crop has potential. As long as there is at leat some potential give it a T2 and only a T3 if there is potential and threatening wet weather in June.
If you have a particularly disease resistant variety, you’d be amazed how well it will do without much, if any fungicides, unless it is a particularly wet weather year.