{"id":301519,"date":"2018-09-23T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=301519"},"modified":"2018-09-21T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:56:37","slug":"sowing-later-reduces-take-all-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/sowing-later-reduces-take-all-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowing later reduces take-all risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Richie Hackett has been examining the effects of take-all for the past number of years at Teagasc Oak Park and he counts delayed sowing as one of the best methods of controlling the disease.<\/p>\n

He presented some of the trial results at Goldcrop’s recent autumn technical briefing.<\/p>\n

While soil pH levels, crop nutrition, poor drainage and seedbed consolidation can all increase the likelihood of take-all, sowing date plays a major role.<\/p>\n

Hackett investigated different varieties and sowing dates in his trials, which were planted with seed dressed with and without Latitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Variety<\/h2>\n

The first major factor that Richie eliminated as having a significant impact on take-all risk was variety.<\/p>\n

In both winter barley and winter wheat, we didn’t find any consistent difference between varieties in terms of response to Latitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seed rate<\/h2>\n

Hackett cautioned growers to be careful if they are thinking of cutting seed rates, as this could result in a lower yield.<\/p>\n

“Seed rate can have an effect. A lower seed rate can reduce the level of infection, but you have to be careful from an economics point of view.”<\/p>\n

Sowing date<\/h2>\n

The sowing dates used in the trials were in the last 10 days of September and the last 10 days of October.<\/p>\n

Going back on old data, Hackett explained that 2004 was “quite a severe take-all year”. He noted that in 2004 “yield in late-October was much higher, irrespective of whether you used Latitude or not”.<\/p>\n

Speaking on more recent years, Hackett commented: “We did get a yield response [from Latitude], 0.6-0.7t\/ha, in late-September and it was slightly lower in late-October, but it wasn’t a massive difference.”<\/p>\n

So remember, don’t be afraid to keep the seed drill in the shed<\/a> for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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