Wheat Fungicide Treatments

        Date    
          2/1/2005    
             
Project Title              
  Wheat Fungicide Treatments
 
             
Investigator 1     Investigator 2    
  Mark Krone    
   
   
   
Phone       Phone      
  620-278-2051            
Email       Email      
dmkro2@sterlingks.net          
             
Statement of Problem            
               
Cost per acre of fungicide vs. rust infestation level.
             
Project Objectives            
               
Economic level of yield protection vs cost of treatment
             
Methodology            
               
Simple testing that’s easy for any wheat farmer to do.  1 treatment reped 3 times with check strip randomized.  Perpendicular 2nd treatment and check  3 reps and randomized.  Collect leaf samples from several of the cells to determine disease thresholds and GPS collect yield data and analyze benefits/extra costs of treatments.
             
Expected outcome / Benefit to KARA          
Wheat disease is potential problem for whole state.  Do fungicides pay?  Ease of putting out a study.