Southeast Colorado | SimpleJoe - 8/31/2025 08:40
I'm gonna agree with 6030 here. Sold Dekalb/Asgrow for years out of the coop. Just doesn't seem to be room in the plant to shove top yielding components and strong defensive components into it. One always seems to displace the other.
We are choking to a quick death in Tar Spot here. Application issues are showing everywhere. This area basically is all aerial applied, no ground rigs, and coverage issues are showing terribly in the past 2 weeks. I no longer participate in aerial fungicides, other the maybe 100 acres annually, because the market has gotten so aggressive and I just don't like not being in control of the output of the applications, but being responsible for them. If Tar Spot is going to come back here at this pace again like 2021, aerial fungicide apps are not going to save any companies' hydrids. The issues created here with varying terrain, obstructions (power lines, trees, building sites) and what has easily been proven now as over estimating optimum spray widths of all forms of aerial application equipment means you better have something solid agronomically for the hybrid choice planted unless a new magic bullet to improve app quality comes along quickly.
That's interesting. I've always wondered how good of a job the planes were doing with both insecticides and fungicides. How are the drone vs plane applications comparing with each other? |
Disease pressure difference in Hybrids.
