![]() |
Main Menu | Search | CD Help | Access the Technical Program
Field experiments were conducted on producer's fields in
Southwest, North-Central, and East Arkansas to evaluate
the effect of a single preventative foliar fungicide application to two high
yielding glyphosate resistant hybrids with varying
foliar disease resistance (Dekalb 69-71 and Pioneer
31G96).� Crop rotations of corn after
corn and corn after soybeans were evaluated at each location.�� Preventative foliar fungicide treatments of
Quilt at 14 fl oz/acre were applied near silking and brown silk using a modified Co2 backpack
sprayer.� Foliar diseases did not develop
in any of these experiments and Quilt applications had no impact on corn yield.� Three application timing experiments were conducted
on the Pioneer 31G96 (RR + Herculex) hybrid.� Experiments were located in Southwest Arkansas near Foreman and at the Cotton Branch Research Station
near Marianna in Eastern Arkansas.� At Marianna, a typical planting date (April
12) and a late planting date (May 26) were evaluated.� Quilt was applied at 14 fl oz/acre to corn
from 40 inches tall to near black layer (depending on location)� Foliar diseases were not present in
experiments at Foreman or the early planted experiment at Marianna.� However, in the late planted (May 26) corn
experiment, Southern rust was found late in the season at high levels.� Quilt applications made prior to silking provided little or no control of southern
rust.� Quilt treatments applied after silking and particularly near brown silk provided the
highest level of control.� Corn yields
however were not increased with any of the Quilt applications due to the late
occurrence of the disease in the growing season.� Visually the later Quilt applications
maintained plant greenness, which may reduce plant lodging.�� Plant lodging was high for all treatments
due to a thunderstorm which resulted in approximately 30% plant lodging across
the experiment.�
Back to Agricultural Systems from Precision Farming and Remote Sensing to Elevated CO2 and Microbial Diversity
Back to A08 Integrated Agricultural Systems
Back to The ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings (November 12-16, 2006)