TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Active ingredient:  Group 3 (tebuconazole)
Treatment rate:  Once case treats 160 acres for fusarium head blight (119 mL/ac.) and 210 acres for leaf diseases (89 mL/ac.)
Crop staging:  Fusarium head blight from 75% head emergence to 50% flower, leaf diseases from the 4-leaf to early flag leaf

Registered crops

• Barley
• Oats
• Wheat (spring, durum, winter)

Diseases controlled

• Fusarium head blight (suppression)
• Rusts – leaf, stem and stripe
  (Puccinia triticina, P. graminis, P. striiformis)
• Septoria – leaf blotch (Septoria tritici)
• Tan spot (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis)
• Net blotch (Pyrenophora teres)
• Spot blotch (Cochliobolus sativus)
• Scald (Rhynchosporium secalis)
• Powdery mildew (Erysiphe graminis)
• Crown rust, oat (Puccinia coronata)
• Septoria glume blotch

Disease Control Challenge

Cereal growers are constantly faced with the threat of fusarium head blight and rusts – two of the most yield damaging diseases to cereal crops. Half of spring wheat and two thirds of durum sampled in 2016 contained fusarium damage* and rusts are growing in prevalence with stripe (yellow) rust able to successfully overwinter in Western Canada. These diseases can both have a devastating impact on wheat yield and quality.

*Canadian Grain Commission

Nufarm Solution

Hornet fungicide delivers another option to help growers defend their cereal crops against damages from fusarium head blight and rusts. Hornet (Group 3) is a proprietary brand of tebuconazole in a liquid formation, similar to Folicur®, providing Canadian farmers access to another tool to protect their cereal crops from two serious diseases.

Benefits

• New alternative tebuconazole foliar fungicide
• Fusarium head blight suppression in cereal crops
• World’s leading rust control

PLUS

• Control of stripe rust which is a growing issue for Canadian farmers that has now been found to overwinter in some of geographies
• One solution plus many different timings and diseases, can be used from 4-leaf to flowering depending on the disease targeted
• Crown and stem rust control in oats
• Coverage, coverage, coverage

Performance Tips

• Timing is critical to apply prior to disease development when heat and humidity are conducive
  to infections

For fusarium head blight

• Optimum coverage of the head is required
• Recommended use of a non-ionic surfactant such as Carrier when sprayed alone for best results
• Apply from the time 75% of the main heads have emerged up to 50% flowering of the main heads

For leaf disease

• Apply at the first signs of disease development
• Best yield results when the flag leaf is protected