crop dusting this time of year?

Geo-TH,In · Jul 3, 2021

Crop duster at 8 am buzzed my house. HE was dusting or spraying the cornfield to the east of me. Why would they be spraying corn that is 8 ft tall, has ears?
Dew is heavy this morning.
Never seen anyone spraying this late.
The plane is put together will all brass nuts.
Got to see a neat air show without leaving the house.

glennster · Jul 3, 2021

fungicide

grandpa Love · Jul 3, 2021

Glad you asked this. Saw a crop duster in Alabama this past week, spraying corn that was full of ears, if it had been sweet corn it was ready to pick! Lol wondering what he was spraying

Geo-TH,In · Jul 3, 2021

That's what I was thinking.
I'm not 100% sure, but some farmers did corn on corn this year. Normally they would rotate corn and beans. This field after corn, they planted winter wheat, then late beans.
You think corn on corn could cause a problem that needs spraying?

coonie minnie · Jul 3, 2021

A fungicide treatment is more likely to offer a return in corn after corn, where disease pressure is more likely to build up.

Bob Bancroft · Jul 3, 2021

One never knows. A couple weeks ago some of my oats started turning brown. We discovered cereal leaf beetle larvae thick enough to warrant spraying. This is a first for me. So we had the oats and wheat all sprayed with an insecticide. Now there's a beetle in some of my corn, next to a field of wheat. It's not rootworm beetle/adult. We think it maybe the cereal leaf beetle adult.

tmg50 · Jul 3, 2021

I saw a duster taking off from the local airport yesterday, it has been a busy year for them here in Michigan. Last week one of the pilots put one down in the trees. He was in the hospital but ok I think.

Dennis(IA) · Jul 3, 2021

8am? Why so late? We get buzzed about 6:30 or 7. I often wondered what they were spraying. Of course we live less than two miles from the airport, but he makes the most noise when he is buzzing a field nearby.

Farmboy 81 · Jul 3, 2021

Could either be a fungicide or if like here an insecticide. Were getting to have spotty stink bug problems bad.

paul · Jul 3, 2021

Yea, fungicide applications have become popular the last decade or so. I
With rising grain prices, the areas having a good crop probably see more such stuff done to protect and grow a bigger crop.

Corn only waist high here, not growing well. Looks pretty good, but really starving for moisture.

Paul

Timmycornpicker · Jul 3, 2021

I'm assuming you could see 'spray/dust' from the plane, so probably fungicide. Lately in this area it has become popular to fly on cover crop seeds on standing corn but you can't see anything coming from the plane when they do it. They don't start until August for that though.

8850dave · Jul 4, 2021

Seed corn fields get sprayed more than once with fungicide and so does sweet corn, also seen a bean field under attack early yesterday morning.

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