Advice on stripe rust

Advice on stripe rust

Farm and Ranch December 27, 2011 It is still too early to tell just how bad stripe rust may be for PNW wheat in 2012. At least infection in winter wheat this fall was less than a year ago, but it was still found.

Like university experts, Ric Wesselman of Syngenta says you need to start with good varieties with solid stripe rust resistance. Right behind that is a timely fungicide application, which he recommends at herbicide application time.

Wesselman: “Cause we get yield benefits even past rust..okay.”

Then its monitor the crop and if, and when you find rust Wesselman says you don’t want to be playing catch up.

Wesselman: “Because we have seen situations where yield losses were ten to 15 bushel easy by delaying it one week in the middle of this last year‘s epidemic. The next thing is coverage. Now you get the timing right but you also want to have the best coverage you possibly can. We can‘t get across all these acres by ground. We can‘t get across all of them by air. The key thing is if you get the timing right and you can get the volume on that crop to cover that canopy as completely as possible to stop rust, those components lead to the best recipe for success as we run into 2012.”

Wesselman says more farmers seem to be willing to just include a fungicide in their herbicide treatment because of disease control beyond stripe rust. He says plan ahead and work closely with you fieldman.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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