Fort Dodge, IA | easymoney - 8/16/2025 12:33
If it's covering that many acres a long with pathogens that have been around for decades. It shows how weak our system is.
It also shows how university and retail "agronomy" have zero interest in getting to the root cause of the unhealthy plants.
Do you have any plans on digging in the soil, taking plant tests next year to help solve this problem for your customers or are you going to recommend 2-3 passes to be " proactive" ? Or brix readings to see what is keeping the plant from thriving without all the inputs.
There are folks out there getting it done. Building a healthy enough crop to resist these diseases. I know crazy,why fix a problem when we can just keep buying Band-Aids...
Common sense says if you have an outbreak of southern rust, you better apply fungicide(I prefer Trivapro or Miravis Neo). I'm all for building healthy soils. But a year ago I found southern rust in a field of a friend who decided not to use fungicide because an agronomist who really pushes products for soil and plant health told him he didn't need fungicide. He finally did apply fungicide late on August 6th and saved his corn. One corner where the plane couldn't fly because of a neighboring acreage, had rust shut down plants by 3rd week of August with major yield loss. |
Southern Rust End Game
