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| I agree with your logic, in cool/wet years with already heavy dews, you are also wetting the crop and canopy with irrigation water. That seems to agravate disease issues. In years where the economics are favorable folks are more inclined to apply fungicides, but in years like this....idk, I'd bet there was far less fungicide applied than there has been with better prices.
In a warm/ dry year, you will spend more having to run the irrigation, but your crop only gets wet every 4 days.
My perfect example would be 2012. Irrigation cost a fortune that year, but wow! The yields.
It's probably a wash when it comes to the bottom like and COP, but I suspect that it's gonna be rare to have both irrigated and dry land records broken in the same year. | |
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So Chip didn't go with the USDA
