Controlling Bollworm in Soybean

Описание: Bollworm we feel like is one of the most destructive soybean pests that we have. You know with the high overhead heat that we are experiencing, we are getting a little slippage on our control. We're seeing some failures and I'm not, I don't think it's all associated with the insecticide at all, in fact, I think a lot of our problem is application.
And first and foremost is volume, I think we need to keep our gallons per acre, our volume up to five gallons per acre by air, a minimum of ten gallons per acre by ground to ensure that you get good thorough adequate coverage into the canopy where those bollworms are. The second thing is particularly with aerial applications, we're recommending the use of a crop oil at one percent or at least an adjuvant to help you in that situation. And thirdly, in these situations where we have these extremely high populations, we're telling growers they need to spray with a pyrethroid at the recommend rate plus a half a pound of acephate or if they get into a situation where they have a re-treatment, they probably need to look at some alternate chemistry such as Steward or Lannate.
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