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Section Title

Spring Wheat FHB Fungicide Timing – All

  • Wheat
Region
  • Manitoba

Background Information

  • Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a serious fungal disease that mainly affects wheat (including durum), barley, oats and corn
  • One key FHB management practice as part of an integrated management approach is timely fungicide application when the risks are high. Application timing of crop protection agents can strongly influence product effectiveness.
  • Trial compared producers normal timing of fungicide application to 3-5 days after the recommended timing.

Summary

Trials were conducted from 2018-2021. Of the 19 sites conducted only 4 showed statistically significant differences among treatments, only one of these show significant differences between recommended timing and 3-5 days later.

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Superscript letters indicate significant differences

 

 

 

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