Maize Handbook 2019

• Very wet and prolonged winter, with low soil temperatures. • Soils were wet making poor cultivation conditions • With the improvement in weather, soils quickly warmed up and crops managed to get away quickly • The weather soon turned conditions more difficult, with plants showing signs of drought stress • Early sown crops seemed to fair better than later drilled, which suffered in the dry soils and heat. The earlier drilled crops had more leaf cover which helped to conserve moisture • Plants that had poor rooting couldn’t stand up to the storms that came later in the season, this affected large plants with poor root structures Mesurol and Sonido will not be relicensed after this season and a use up period is currently unknown. Due to this uncertainty, we will not be holding a stock of treated seed, and we cannot accept returns of Mesurol or Sonido treated seed. To ensure that you receive your required treatment, we advise you order early. 2018 season review Maize 2019 Please find enclosed the maize varieties that we will be running with for the 2019 season, along with some information on growing maize, and considerations to be taken into account before selecting a variety. We feel that we have a variety to suit each and every customers’ site and growing conditions, as well as end uses.

Maize Agronomy Herbicides Pre-emergence

Broad leaved weeds and grass weeds – PDM (Anthem) Post-emergence (before buttress roots develop) Broad leaved weeds – mesotrione (Callisto) Thistles – clopyralid (Dow Shield) Docks and volunteer potatoes – fluroxypyr (Hurler) Grass weeds – nicosulfuron (Fornet) Fungicides Eyespot – pyraclostrobin (Comet 200)

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