Wheat processing against fungal and viral diseases
Wheat is one of the three "world breads" along with rice and corn. It is grown all over the world for its high yield and ease of maintenance. This culture is not demanding on the acid-base balance of the soil and can grow on both neutral and alkaline soils.
Wheat can be sown in summer and as a winter crop. Winter wheat sprouts are susceptible to fungal and viral diseases, as well as pests. During the growing season, fungal diseases, pests and weeds are the main causes of yield decline. The most dangerous of them are:
- white rot;
- wheat thrips;
- wild oats.
Therefore, during the active growing season, wheat must be treated with fungicides, insecticides and herbicides.
Application of herbicides
In recent years, the technology of minimum tillage has become widespread. This technology allows you to get an ecologically clean crop of wheat, but its disadvantage is the rapid accumulation of seeds of cereal weeds in the soil.
Germinating with cereals, these weeds inhibit the growth of cultivated plants: wheat, oats, barley. Harmful plants deplete the soil, as a result of which cereal yields are significantly reduced.
That is why it is very important to carry out herbicide treatments when growing cereals. They actively use preparations from the firm "Bayer" - "Puma super 100" or "Puma super 7.5".
The active ingredients of these drugs can destroy even overgrown weeds. At the same time, herbicides do not harm crops of cereals. They contain antidote substances that react with the amino acids found in wheat.
Pest control
For treatment against wheat thrips, an insecticide must be used. Treatment is most effective during the active growing season, when the wheat has not yet formed a grain ear.
Otherwise, the insect will crawl under the hard shell of the grain. Wheat thrips reduces grain yield by at least 25%.
Fungicide treatment
The most effective fungicide for wheat infection by rust or downy mildew is Falcon. It contains two active ingredients - triadimenol and spiroxamine. They not only destroy the spores of fungal diseases, but also accelerate the growth of cereals during the active growing season.
"Falcon" is a fungicide that can be used in the preparation of a tank mixture of drugs. This allows the treatment of fungal diseases and cereal weeds to be combined.