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Southern Midwest states may benefit from late-season fungicide application

An agronomist says corn has finished growing this year but some areas of the Midwest might still benefit from fungicide applications. Brett Minett, a Becks Hybrids Field Agronomist says that’s especially true for producers in southern Indiana and Ohio.

“I know further south we’re seeing frog eyed leaf spot which is a disease of beans we don’t normally see this far north. It might need sprayed. But overall given what we’ve done there’s not much we can do to fix this crop.” says Minett.

Minett says the recent drought conditions in the Eastern Corn Belt might have stressed corn too much for rain to help it.

“That drought lasted just long enough. If we got some of that rain right in the middle of that we probably could have saved that 200 bushel crop. But now we’re seeing the corn start to tip back, we’re seeing fire from the ground up so even though we did get a rain here a week or two ago I think we probably took the cream off the crop.” says Minett.

Brownfield interviewed Minett at Becknology Days in Indiana.