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NWMO | Seen the same thing here
I will tell you one thing, if you had a susceptible hybrid, sometimes even 2 passes wouldn’t work.
Have neighbors that applied no fungicide, 1 pass at R1/R2, 2 passes at R1/2 and R4, and have one neighbor that did 3 passes ar R1/2, R4, and mid R5.
What are the results?
No fungicide = absolute disaster and the corn today looks like it’s December 16th rather than September 16th
1 pass = big help, but still succumb to rust in R5
2 pass = better foliage retention but still died before black layer
3 pass = not much better than 2 pass on very susceptible hybrids due to small windows of susceptibility between fungicide passes
Overall, fungicide helped, but when you have go on what we had here in NEKS, NWMO, SENE, there’s not much you can do. I’ve heard yield reports from over a dozen neighbors, so far, most stuff is coming in 10%-30% below APH here, equating to a 20-50 bu/ac yield hit. That’s across a few thousand acres of harvested crop. Question will be, how did the long season hybrids (115-120 day) hang in?
But if you’re anything like us, southern rust was only part of the problem. It wasn’t as good of a year as folks believed it to be from an agronomic standpoint in our area.
Honestly, learn from this year, plan for next year, and keep moving on. You tried and things didn’t work as hoped, that’s farming, unfortunately
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One fungicide pass was not enough
