Ears are emerging in Ontario’s winter wheat fields and there’s a lot of good stuff going on. There’s a lot of potential, but the final yield will depend on how the crop handles the many stresses it may encounter between now and harvest.
What role can biostimulants play in managing these stresses? Can this fast-growing product category help growers realize even more of their grain storage potential? In this episode, RealAgriculture’s Wheat SchoolGreg Stewart, Biology Field Specialist at Syngenta Canada, discusses where these products fit in the wheat management tool box and what research and trial results are revealing about application strategies.
In the video, Stewart and host Bernard Tobin visit a field testing site near Swierburg, Ontario, where the company is testing different application times to understand how to reduce stress and optimize yields with products like Megafol, a liquid foliar biostimulant. Last year, the product was applied during the T1 and T3 stages, a practice that will be replicated again in 2024.
Stewart also explains how application strategies can evolve to target when crops are experiencing higher levels of stress, rather than at specific growth stages.
Stewart acknowledges that the stress that most impacts wheat yields is weather, which is difficult to manage from a crop inputs perspective, but he believes there is growing evidence that biostimulants have a role to play in managing environmental stresses and can help close the gap between yield potential and actual yield. Check out the video below:
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