Kooiker - 9/21/2025 21:24

I really don't want to spend another 2 weeks of the summer in a sprayer but I'm starting to think we need to get a Hagie and spray our own fungicide.    Then at least if it doesn't get done when/how I want it done I won't have anyone to blame but myself.

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I get it, but.... this is also an event magnified by very specific conditions.   When you were dry as fresh kitty litter for the last few crops, it probably wasn't worth your time and fuel to do that instead of going fishing or playing cards at the tavern.    We sprayed check strips of Trivapro on drought stunted 2022 and 2023 crop corn that was short enough our Patriot could easily do the job.   The ONLY one that made enough bushels to pay for the product was on a hybrid that is very short season for our area, and happened to keep the plants alive to catch a September rain.   But.... the farm made 104 and was an insurance claim anyway.  The people who claim "it always pays" don't seem to ever have those situations, or they simply ignore them.   69% of my observations locally would be that people spray junk corn regardless of putting boots on the ground to actually scout (who wants to get out of the air-conditioned pickup and walk a few hundred feet).

 

Edit to add: Not through the combine yet. But- this sprayed by my brother running a friend’s Hagie. The unsprayed was totally dead, sprayed had 3-4 days till black layer. It’s gonna pay off plenty this time.



Edited by Clay SEIA 9/22/2025 22:15






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