| DCH - 10/19/2025 12:57 You need math help. That thought process is only accurate when one is planning on filing. It really exposes how poor of marketer you feel that you are. Fungicide has always paid enough to cover costs. The best guess is that it has been worth pax 15 bpa and better harvest. It does reward the better management.
Your comment is astonidhingly ignorant and arrogant . I've put many thousands of acres of fungicide on. I've been doing strip trials of it since I think the 2007 growing season.
I don't expect you were here in 2010 or 2011 or 2015 or 2019 or 2020 when people sprayed a bunch of waterlogged corn that was insurance claims. I don't expect you were here when in 2022 we did seven strip trials of Trivapro in drought stunted corn which was short enough to run our Patriot through, only one of the seven had a measurable yield increase, and..... it was a farm that was still a crop insurance trigger. In THIS growing season, my brother put fungicide through a friend's Hagie on most of the corn "here" and- it's a slam dunk with the southern rust. Pretty obvious weeks ago when treated corn had 3-4 days till black layer, and the untreated next to it was deader than week old cat poop in the litter box. Still, that was basically on the 90% plan. Sprayed the easiest 90%, because I see no reason to hog around a ground rig or an airplane in two acre triangles and point rows where I might have twenty years of yield maps showing that the timber and the State's livestock are going to suck all the corn into junk no matter how much monies are spent.
To be fair, I did not make the specific point I had in mind that a whole bunch of people who already planned, spent, and did apply one pass of fungicide did not do a second pass which actually might have paid big in THIS growing season because it's not a standard management practice for "better management" growers. In a situation that might be once in a lifetime.
If you think my math on that all needs help, go piss up a rope. |
Where are the guys saying don't waste more money on this crop?
