Fungicides for Use in Forage Seed Grasses 2015
Project Objectives: The objective of this project was to demonstrate the importance of the control of leaf diseases and their impact on forage seed yield and quality as well as forage quality. The project uses registered fungicides on established timothy and tall fescue crops.
ADOPT Project # 20110331 was carried out in 2012. Not all planned sites were established in that project mainly due to extremely wet field conditions. It was felt by the SFSDC board that the project should be carried out at another site to better demonstrate the importance of fungicide use in forage seed crop production.
Project Rationale: In the past few years, forage seed producers in Saskatchewan have reported an increase in leaf diseases that have negatively affected their grass seed yields and quality. The main plant disease of concern on timothy is purple eyespot (Cladosporium phlei). Leaf and stem rusts (Puccinia graminis) are of concern in tall fescue.