With the onset of wheat planting just a quick look at what chemicals and fertilizers Maguires have available for Wheat.
Fertilisers
We have two choices of cereal blend – 6.23.23 and 6.28.23. The latter being used where you have low phosphate levels in your soil results. These would be applied at around 350kgs per hectare.
For additional Calcium & Sulphur gypsum can be applied at 300kgs/ha or at about 100kgs/ha for granulated gypsum. The third option is to apply between 25 – 50 lts of liquid gypsum through the pivot.
For Topdressing you would generally apply about 500kgs of Ammonium Nitrate.
Maguires has two foliar applications – Wheat Oemff Early which is applied at 4kgs/ha with a vicon or at 8kgs/ha through the pivot at Stooling and Wheat Oemff Flag which is applied at 4kgs/ha with a vicon or at 8kgs/ha through the pivot at Flag leaf.
Chemicals
If a pre planting clean up is necessary you can use Glyphosate at 2kgs/ha.
For seed dressings the following is available- Baytan at 165mls per ha of seed and Galmano Plus at 450mls/ha. For soil insects at planting confidor can be used at 150g/ha. For ants Fipronil can be used at 200mls/ha.
For weed control MCPA at 3lts/ha or MCPA at 1lt/ha mixed with Buctril at 0.5lts/ha.
For Aphid Control Acetamiprid can be used at 100g/ha and Thunder at 300mls/ha which will also control bollworm. For Bollworm you can also use Cartap at 500g/ha or Belt at 80mls/ha.
For Rust & Powdery you can use Opera or Cabrio Duo at 750mls/ha or Folicur at 750mls/ha or Twist at 150mls/ha. For Rust, Powdery & Fusarium you can use Nativo at 500mls/ha, Ortiva at 400mls/ha or Amistar Top or Azoxy Duo at 500mls/ha. For Septoria Blotch & Powdery you can use Folicur at 400mls/ha mixed with Prosper at 375mls/ha.
