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(May 7, 2008) -
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Applications and
more information
Changes in the Wheat Foliar Fungicide
Status Quo
By Don Hershman, University of Kentucky
Extension Pathologist
Wheat Science Group Newsletter
(Revised May 7, 2008)
Recent weeks have been very hectic in terms of changes to the
wheat foliar fungicide situation in Kentucky. Much of what I
am about to describe has its origin in EPA’s recent favorable
response to a review of triazole chemistry. Without going into
any details, new section 3 labels of triazole fungicides were
held up for years due to questions regarding the environment
and health risks associated with a common breakdown product of
all triazole fungicides. A favorable ruling by EPA in 2007 on
this question opened the door for the section 3 labeling of
new triazole fungicides.
The Bayer fungicide,
Proline (prothioconazole), labeled in the spring of 2007, was
one of the first post-EPA-review triazoles to receive a
section 3 label that could be used for disease management in
wheat. Then on April 21, 2008, EPA granted a section 3 label
to two BASF fungicides containing the active ingredient,
metconazole. Caramba is straight metconazole and Multiva is a
premix product of Caramba and Headline (pyraclostrobin). To my
knowledge, neither of these products have received state
approval as of this writing (May 7), but this should change
shortly. However, due to the lateness of label approvals
relative to the advanced stage of wheat development in
Kentucky, it is likely that little or no Caramba or Multiva
will applied to wheat in Kentucky this spring.
Read
more...
If you need a copy of the Orius or Folicur
labels, please contact us at
info@kysmallgrains.org.
2008
Kentucky Extension Wheat Production Contest
Entry Deadline is August 1.
View the rules and entry form.

Realizing the income potential
for growers, the Kentucky Corn Growers Association and
Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association recently partnered
with the Chicago Climate Exchange to offer producers
additional revenue opportunities for grassland and continuous
conservation tillage acres.
More
information regarding Soil Carbon Credit Trading
UK
Wheat Science Newsletter
April 14, 2008
What you can find in this issue:
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Fungicidal control of Fusarium Head Blight
(scab) and Deoxynivalenol (Don) in wheat
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Foliar fungicides for wheat disease control
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Suction trap counts - Where are the Aphids?
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Corn planted into standing grasses: does
this = armyworms?
Additional News
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UK Field Day
Spindletop, Lexington
June 12, 2008
2 - 8 p.m. EDT |
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