Hornet ™ is a cereal fungicide that protects from fusarium head blight and rusts.
Hornet ™ is a cereal fungicide that protects from fusarium head blight and rusts.
Technical information
Active ingredient: Group 3 (tebuconazole)
Treatment area: Once case treats: 160 acres for fusarium head blight, 210 acres for leaf diseases
Application: 119 mL/acre for fusarium head blight from 75% head emergence to 50% flower. 89 mL/acre for leaf diseases from the 4-leaf to early flag leaf
Registered crops
- Barley
- Oats
- Wheat (spring, winter, durum)
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
- FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT suppression in cereal crops
- ALTERNATIVE TEBUCONAZOLE foliar fungicide
- Control of stripe rust – a growing issue for Canadian farmers – that has now been found to overwinter in some geographies
- One solution with 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
- Timing is critical – apply Hornet prior to onset of disease
Performance tips
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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