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easymoney
Posted 8/5/2025 10:49 (#11321227 - in reply to #11321080)
Subject: RE: Southern Rust End Game


ecmn
mac4440 - 8/5/2025 09:07

easymoney - 8/5/2025 05:58

What is the real endgame? How long has Southern rust been around? How many years have we used fungicide on it? If fungicides worked, shouldn't we have cured rust? Not only have we not cured rust, other diseases have come along, how?



How do you "cure" a disease that can occur naturally every year, depending on conditions?
Fungicides do work. They protect the plant.
No different than humans. You can vaccinate against measles, but as long as the virus is somewhere on planet earth, and there are unvaccinated people, it isn't cured.


Could we have 100% cure something? Probably not. Could we Farm healthy enough plants that You only need to pull out a fungicide once every 5 or 10 years. Absolutely.

Look at the history. We keep using fungicides but more and more pathogens keep showing up and we still haven't gotten rid of the old ones. I don't think I'm saying anything bizarre here. I honestly can't believe more farmers out there aren't asking their retail agronomist. Why aren't you getting to the cause of stuff instead of making me buy all this stuff every year.

If a vaccination is very different than a fungal pathogen. But I'm glad that you brought that up. If I had to go to the doctor three or four times a year every year, at what point do you stop thanking the doctor for making you feel better after each shot and start asking the doctor? Is there something else wrong with me.

If we want to cure something or make something more healthy. Wouldn't we learn as to what's making it not healthy and do the opposite?. I'm not trying to be funny. There is a lot of data out there that shows a lot of fertilizer in the fall and the spring have major effects on the health of the plant that we're growing and the soil that it's growing in.

I don't believe you can cure something like tar spot or these fungal pathogens will never make them disappear. But it is very possible very plausible and many people are doing it through soil and nutrition management.





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