The above photo was taken at the Ontario Cereal Crop Committees' Fusarium Headblight Screening Trials at the Ridgetown Ontario Campus c/o of the University of Guelph. Pioneer brand 25R51 soft red winter wheat offers growers the best insurance of marketing grade 2 wheat.Of all the wheat varieties on the market it will provide without question the cleanest sample in regards to fusarium headblight.My recommendation to Pioneer sales reps and growers alike is to plant 1/3-1/2 their acres to 25R51 and the rest of their acreage to Pioneer brand 25R56,25R39 or 25R47.
The opportunity to blend your crop is then afforded with such a strategy.
If you double click on this photo you can grasp a good perspective of just how much fusarium headblight has infected this head of wheat.














Though not at high levels evidence of Fusarium headblight infection could be noted in wheat fields across Southwetern Ontario a week to 10 days ago.