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Northeast, Nebraska | I have been out in customers fields the last 2 weeks. Best fields not showing disease was organic fields. Hardly any disease in the corn, I'm sure that will change, but definitely not as obvious like the conventional fields. By far the healthiest soybean plants I have ever seen and they were loaded with blooms. One customer said it was the tallest and healthiest looking beans he had ever had. He runs a zapper and a cultivator. He said he was hoping for 45 bu beans. To me it looked like they could be pushing 60s if they get enough moisture and time to finish out. Pulled some soil samples and brought them back to the office and ran microbiometer tests and his total counts more than doubled the highest ones I have pulled on any conventional farmer's fields, which means they have very high microbial activity in their soil. Coincidently, the worse count on that microbiometer test this year, was the field with the highest disease pressure. If you don't think soil biology plays a big part of plants protecting themselves, and don't work on improving that, plan on buying fungicide every year. There are already reports of diseases flaring up again here on stuff sprayed 2 weeks ago. One guy said he used trivapro and another used generic quilt. | |
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Southern Rust End Game
