Cost per acre Spring Barley Spraying program

Kileir

Hi,

Just wondering what should be typical costs per acre for Spring Barley spray program for 2011 before I get stuck into my agri-merchant? First time growing Barley in 20 years and shocked at cost of sprays. Nothing special was required just general weed and fungicide. Initial spraying/weed control approx EUR20/acre, broad spectrum fungicide at EUR40/acre and post heading at EUR40/acre. Sprays used were Corbel, Coyote, Bravo 500, Amistar, Bontima, Methrin

nilhg

That sounds way over the top, have a look at the teagasc crop costs and returns and see how you compare.

rliston

Sounds a bit high alright, I'll have a look at the invoices for this year later and post up our costs

rliston

Our barley was sprayed just the once in the first week of june with Allymax, Empire, Twinprop, Strand, Tern and MB500 costing €23/acre.

Jollyone

What time did you sow ? You tell me the sprayer was only in the crop once. Herbicide and all the fungicide. Never saw that to work well.

Jollyone

There's a bit of a cross over with the products, you should probably reducing the rate. Your last spray is expensive. What county u in.

49801

spring wheat

herbicides cost 13euro/acre... used DB-plus undersown grass
fungicides
T1 went out 3weeks late due to weather
T2 2.5weeks later at half rate
no T3
Total fungicides cost 60euro/acre.
corbel, bravo, strand, and sumi-alpha were the mixes