The percentage of growers applying insecticides and fungicides in cash crops, and overall spending on these crop protection products, continues to increase.
Although environmental pressures and concerns over soil health have caused some no-tillers to re-examine their use of insecticides and fungicides, data from the 11th annual No-Till Farmer Operational Benchmark Study shows use of these products isn’t necessarily decreasing.
The University of Illinois' "The Bulletin" discusses the importance of calculating your own yields that need to be protected with fungicide and provides the equations with which to do so.
North Dakota State University Extension shares some information on fungicide use on hail damaged crops, including a summary of results of a soybean-hail study just published last month from Iowa State University.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by the 2024 National Strip-Tillage Conference, Eagle, Wis., no-tiller Tyler Troiola uses John Deere See & Spray Premium for the first time, which he says delivered significant herbicide savings on corn but not quite as much on soybeans.
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