Amherst WI | pipeman1 - 8/4/2021 09:14
15 inch at 130,000 pop. with conventional tillage, in a corn bean rotation. This year beans got very tall and we've had absolutely perfect conditions for mold the for last month.
That's a perfect storm waiting to happen.
UW is showing even going to 80,000 is a good way to control white mold
Conventional tillage in a corn/soy rotation is an ideal way to have WM as an issue.
I had a service call a few years ago with a customer who had white mold something terrible. Did the same as you but drilled them too. He'd chisel plow after the beans and after the corn. He'd bury the WM on the bean year and then bring it back up on the corn year by chiseling the stalks down. I suggested 30" rows, lower population, less tillage and maybe even a cover crop of oats or rye to keep soil from splashing onto the bean plant and infecting the flowers. I got looked at like I had 7 heads and the coop guy had all the answers so off he went with him.
Could the seed have had better WM tolerance, I'm sure it could have but he also was doing several other cultural practices to encourage the issue that he seemed to not have any interest in fixing. What's the definition of insanity? |
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