This week we present to you the last stop of our 2020 Virtual Answer Plot!
Focus on Fungicide: Adjuvants
Depth of Coverage, Deposition & Drift Control
Adjuvants are the key to ensuring your selected pesticide or herbicide works effectively for you.
Three things adjuvants do:
1. In the tank, they condition the water for a more effective active ingredient
2. In the air, they keep the product on target in the field where they need to be
3. In the plant, they ensure the effective amount of product is received into the plant that will kill the weed, insect or control disease.
Learn more through this 8-minute Answer Plot stop.
Watch as Brandon Lovett, Seed Manager, visits with Curt Naylor, YieldPro Manager, about the power of adjuvants and how they ensure efficacy in your fungicide.
Thank you for joining us as we toured the 2020 Answer Plot virtually this year. DOn’t forget to turn in the codes to your YieldPro by July 10 for the giveaways!
There’s been a lot of discussion and debate regarding the difference in effectiveness of fixed wing or helicopter fungicide application.
The right amount of water, with an adjuvant, will get the fungicide to where it needs to be effective.
A quality adjuvant is a key component of this process.
A well-trained applicator will always ensure a quality job – regardless of technique.
Ryan O’Neal and Mark Richey, YieldPro Specialists, sit down with Drake Copeland, Technical Service Manager with FMC, to have a quick comparison conversation about both practices.
Our YieldPro team regrets that we can’t visit with you at a large Answer Plot event this summer. But we’re eager to help answer any questions and have a conversation with you about decision making for your operation. Contact us to learn more!
It’s time to discuss fungicide efficacy, protection and timing.
Application timing is critical in the field…or is it? Listen as Glenn explains growth stage and efficacy.
At what growth stage would application protect the plant at its most vulnerable time? Which would protect the yield?
Applying a fungicide doesn’t just kill disease, it also stimulates photosynthesis.
Glenn offers so much more insight during this brief conversation regarding fungicides. Take 10 minutes to learn more during this Answer Plot stop #2.
We invite you to watch David Vollmer, YieldPro Specialist and Glenn Longabaugh, Regional Agronomist for Winfield United, discuss early and late season fungicide in corn and soybeans.
Increased pressure in diseased corn isn’t going away. Sara Nave from our Lena Ag Center, grower Richard Bodey and Agronomist Steve Dlugosz worked together in 2018 to develop and run a box trial that yielded really interesting – and telling – results regarding early season fungicide application and also response to sulfur. Bodey confirms that the treated side had greater plant stamina and standability.
So, how important is sulfur in the production of corn and soybeans? This week we invite you to watch the video below to find out!
Actual Trial Results:
Your YieldPro Specialist is ready to visit with you about your options for the 2019 crop. Contact them today to get a plan in place for success this season!
Those not involved in agriculture, do not fear. The constant zipping around of helicopters in your area have nothing to do with Russia or an illegal substance. But rather, protection of a crop.
Harvest Land agronomist Steve Dlugosz joins us from the field this week to discuss the benefits of late season fungicide application. We caught up with Steve at our Pershing Answer Plot in Wayne County to talk about the application:
As always, contact your YieldPro Specialist for additional insight. We’re here to help preserve the potential of every acre you farm.
Disease can threaten corn production throughout the season, from common diseases that affect leaves, stalks and roots.
This week, Harvest Land agronomist Steve Dlugosz takes a look at the benefits of early season fungicide application and shares the results of a field box trial done last season that yielded some interesting results. Take a look:
Infection by stalk rot organisms can occur early in the season, but visual symptoms may not appear until grain fill. Stalk rots can cause significant yield loss when the disease causes plants to deteriorate prematurely, resulting in poor ear fill or light test weight grain. Lodging can be a problem and everyone hates running down corn!
So how can you manage these problems? What can you do to protect your crop from disease? Best management practices can help. Ask yourself these four questions:
An increasing concern is southern rust which is carried by wind-borne fungal spores and commonly affect seed corn and sweet corn. Timely fungicide applications can help control these diseases.
What hybrids are a concern?
Current hybrids vary greatly in their resistant to many diseases. Know the strength and weaknesses of the hybrids you have planted. Talk to your YieldPro Specialist if you don’t know.
How do my current cultural practices affect disease?
Because several disease organisms survive in infected residue from crop to crop, there are several cultural practices that can help break this cycle and diminish disease pressure. For example:
Crop rotation allows surface corn residue to break down, reducing bacteria and fungal inoculum.
Incorporating corn residue into the soil can further reduce the disease pressure the following season.
Good weed control removes disease hosts.
When should I use a fungicide?
A fungicide decision is a matter of evaluating the risk actors that drive disease development, including the hybrids you planted, rotation, disease history, and current and future weather patterns.
Timely foliar fungicide applications are a tool that can help protect corn plants from fungal infections throughout the season. Your YieldPro Specialist can help when making these decisions.
Applying fungicides with multiple modes of action, such as Delaro™ and Stratego® YLD can help minimize the potential for fungicide resistance, which can occur when heavy reliance is placed on controlling diseases with one chemical class.
Contact your YieldPro Specialist today to get the most out of your yield in 2018. We’re always here to help.
infections throughout the season. Your YieldPro Specialist can help when making these decisions.