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* Please select your state.
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes your role in making decisions for this farm?
 
I am the primary decision maker for this farm
 
I jointly make decisions with some else for this farm
 
I have very little or no involvement in making decision for this farm
 
 
 
* How many acres of soybeans will you plant this year?
   soybean acres
 
 
 
* How many acres of corn will you plant this year?
   corn acres
 
 
 
Soybean Fungicides
 
 
This section is about your soybean acres and specifically fungicide use on your soybean acres, even if you have not used fungicides. Please keep this in mind as you answer the following questions.
 
 
 
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* Have you used a fungicide on your soybeans in the past 3 years (include seed treatments, pre-plant fungicides and/or foliar fungicides)?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
 
* Are you currently using a fungicide on your soybeans (include seed treatments, pre-plant fungicides and/or foliar fungicides)?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
 
 
 
* Thinking about the last time you used fungicides on your soybeans, on what percentage of your total soybean acres did you use fungicides (include seed treatments, pre-plant fungicides and foliar fungicides)?
   %
 
 
 
* Which diseases are you most concerned about in your soybeans (Select all that apply)?
 
Anthracnose
 
Brown Stem Rot
 
Cercospora Leaf Blight & Purple Seed Stain of Soybeans
 
Charcoal Rot of Soybeans
 
Dectes Stem Borer
 
Frogeye Leaf Spot
 
Fusarium
 
Phytophthora Root Rot
 
Root-knot Nematode
 
Seed and Seedling Diseases
 
Soybean Cyst Nematode
 
Soybean Rust
 
Soybean Vein Necrosis Virus
 
Stem Canker
 
Sudden Death Syndrome of Soybeans
 
White Mold in Soybeans
 
None
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* Which of the following types of soybean fungicides do you normally use?

(Select all that apply)?
 
Seed treatment
 
Pre-plant fungicide
 
Foliar fungicide

 
 
 
Seed treatment
   %
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes how you use the fungicide seed treatment on your soybeans (Select all that apply)?
 
Planned plant health
 
Planned disease control
 
Rescue treatment only
 
To increase yield
 
As insurance against unforeseen weather or other events
 
Both plant health and disease control
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* How well has the fungicide seed treatment performed?
 
Excellent
 
Good
 
Fair
 
Poor
 
 
 
* Pre-plant fungicide only
   %
* Pre-plant fungicide plus insecticide
   %
* Pre-plant fungicide plus micronutrient/foliar feed
   %
* Pre-plant fungicide plus herbicide
   %
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes how the pre-plant fungicides on your soybeans are used (Select all that apply)?
 
Planned plant health
 
Planned disease control
 
Rescue treatment only
 
To increase yield
 
As insurance against unforeseen weather or other events
 
Both plant health and disease control
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* How well has the pre-plant fungicide performed?
 
Excellent
 
Good
 
Fair
 
Poor
 
 
 
* Foliar fungicide only
   %
* Foliar fungicide plus insecticide
   %
* Foliar fungicide plus micronutrient/foliar feed
   %
* Foliar fungicide plus herbicide
   %
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes how the foliar fungicides on your soybeans are used (Select all that apply)?
 
Planned plant health
 
Planned disease control
 
Rescue treatment only
 
To increase yield
 
As insurance against unforeseen weather or other events
 
Both plant health and disease control
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
* How well has the foliar fungicide performed?
 
Excellent
 
Good
 
Fair
 
Poor
 
 
 
 
 
 
What is the primary reason why you do not use foliar fungicides on your soybeans?
   
 
 
 
* What would you estimate is your yield gain in additional bushels per acre from using fungicides on your soybean acres? Please enter any number up to 10 additional bushels per acre.
   Yield gain (i.e., additional bushels per acre you get from using fungicides)
 
 
 
* Do you apply fungicides to your soybeans with your own equipment or do you have it custom applied or both?
 
Own equipment
 
Custom application
 
Both
 
 
 
* What percentage of your soybean fungicides is aerial applied?
   %
 
 
 
What is the primary reason why you do not use fungicides on your soybeans?
   
 
 
In general, do you expect the following types of fungicide treatments/applications to decrease, stay the same, or increase in 2016 on your soybean acres? Please answer even if you have not used fungicides in the past.
Decrease Stay about the same Increase
* Seed treatment
* Pre-plant fungicides
* Foliar fungicides
 
 
Please rate the following factors in terms of their influence on your decision to use or switch to using a foliar fungicide for your soybeans? Use a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the least influential and 10 is the most influential.
Least InfluentialMost Influential
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
* Cost
* Disease pressure
* Weather
* Past experience
* Dealer recommendations
* Tank mix available
* Soybean prices
* Broad spectrum control
 
 
 
* If commodity prices rebound, what is the first soybean input or cost you would increase in order to maximize your per acre income?
 
Seed
 
Fungicide
 
Labor cost
 
Tillage
 
Insecticide
 
Herbicide
 
Fuel/Energy
 
Fertilizer
 
Other - please specify
 
 
 
 
Weed Resistance
 
 
Still thinking about your soybean acres, this next section is about weed resistance in soybeans. Please keep this in mind as you answer the following questions.
 
 
 
* Do you have any incidence of herbicide resistance on your soybean acres?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
Is managing herbicide resistance in the following types of soybeans on your farm a minor, moderate or major issue?
Not an issue Minor issue Moderate issue Major issue Do not plant
* Conventional Soybeans
* Roundup Ready Soybeans
 
 
 
* Are you more concerned about resistance to post-applied products or pre-emergent chemistries on your soybeans?
 
Post-applied products
 
Pre-emergent chemistries
 
Concerned equally about both
 
Neither of these
 
 
 
* Which herbicide groups or active ingredients do you have resistance to on your farm? (Select all that apply)
Refer to the following list for herbicide brands associated with each chemical group.

 
ACC Inhibitors
 
ALS Inhibitors
 
PPO Inhibitors
 
EPSP Inhibitors
 
Photosynthesis Inhibitors
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* And which weed species in your soybeans are showing resistance to ACC inhibitors (select all that apply)?
Refer to the following list for herbicide brands associated with this chemical group.
 
Barley, Hare
 
Barnyardgrasses
 
Bluegrass, Annual
 
Bromegrasses
 
Canarygrasses
 
Chickweeds
 
Clovers
 
Cockleburs
 
Crabgrass
 
Cudweeds
 
Datura, Sacred
 
Docks (Seedling)
 
Downey Brome
 
Fescues
 
Fiddlenecks
 
Filarees
 
Fleabane, Hairy
 
Foxtail
 
Goosefoot
 
Groundcherries
 
Groundsels
 
Henbit
 
Horseweed/Marestail
 
Johnsongrass Rhizome
 
Johnsongrass Seed
 
Knotweed, Common
 
Kochia
 
Lambsquarters, Common
 
Lettuce, Prickly
 
Lovegrasses
 
Mallow, Little Cheeseweed)
 
Miner’s Lettuce
 
Mustards
 
Nettles
 
Nightshades
 
Oat, Wild
 
Orach, Halberdleaf
 
Palmer Pigweed
 
Pigweeds
 
Pineapple-Weed
 
Polypogon, Rabbitfoot
 
Popcorn Flower
 
Povertyweed, Nutall
 
Puncturevine
 
Purple Nutsedge
 
Purslane, Common
 
Radish, Wild
 
Redmaids
 
Rocket, London
 
Ryegrasses
 
Sandburs
 
ShepherdsPurse
 
Smartweed
 
Sowthistles
 
Speedwells
 
Spurge, Spotted
 
Thistle, Russian
 
Velvetleaf
 
Volunteer Cereals
 
Water hemp
 
Yellow Nutsedge
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* And which weed species in your soybeans are showing resistance to ALS Inhibitors?
Refer to the following list for herbicide brands associated with this chemical group.
 
Barley, Hare
 
Barnyardgrasses
 
Bluegrass, Annual
 
Bromegrasses
 
Canarygrasses
 
Chickweeds
 
Clovers
 
Cockleburs
 
Crabgrass
 
Cudweeds
 
Datura, Sacred
 
Docks (Seedling)
 
Downey Brome
 
Fescues
 
Fiddlenecks
 
Filarees
 
Fleabane, Hairy
 
Foxtail
 
Goosefoot
 
Groundcherries
 
Groundsels
 
Henbit
 
Horseweed/Marestail
 
Johnsongrass Rhizome
 
Johnsongrass Seed
 
Knotweed, Common
 
Kochia
 
Lambsquarters, Common
 
Lettuce, Prickly
 
Lovegrasses
 
Mallow, Little Cheeseweed)
 
Miner’s Lettuce
 
Mustards
 
Nettles
 
Nightshades
 
Oat, Wild
 
Orach, Halberdleaf
 
Palmer Pigweed
 
Pigweeds
 
Pineapple-Weed
 
Polypogon, Rabbitfoot
 
Popcorn Flower
 
Povertyweed, Nutall
 
Puncturevine
 
Purple Nutsedge
 
Purslane, Common
 
Radish, Wild
 
Redmaids
 
Rocket, London
 
Ryegrasses
 
Sandburs
 
ShepherdsPurse
 
Smartweed
 
Sowthistles
 
Speedwells
 
Spurge, Spotted
 
Thistle, Russian
 
Velvetleaf
 
Volunteer Cereals
 
Water hemp
 
Yellow Nutsedge
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* And which weed species in your soybeans are showing resistance to PPO Inhibitor?
Refer to the following list for herbicide brands associated with this chemical group.
 
Barley, Hare
 
Barnyardgrasses
 
Bluegrass, Annual
 
Bromegrasses
 
Canarygrasses
 
Chickweeds
 
Clovers
 
Cockleburs
 
Crabgrass
 
Cudweeds
 
Datura, Sacred
 
Docks (Seedling)
 
Downey Brome
 
Fescues
 
Fiddlenecks
 
Filarees
 
Fleabane, Hairy
 
Foxtail
 
Goosefoot
 
Groundcherries
 
Groundsels
 
Henbit
 
Horseweed/Marestail
 
Johnsongrass Rhizome
 
Johnsongrass Seed
 
Knotweed, Common
 
Kochia
 
Lambsquarters, Common
 
Lettuce, Prickly
 
Lovegrasses
 
Mallow, Little Cheeseweed)
 
Miner’s Lettuce
 
Mustards
 
Nettles
 
Nightshades
 
Oat, Wild
 
Orach, Halberdleaf
 
Palmer Pigweed
 
Pigweeds
 
Pineapple-Weed
 
Polypogon, Rabbitfoot
 
Popcorn Flower
 
Povertyweed, Nutall
 
Puncturevine
 
Purple Nutsedge
 
Purslane, Common
 
Radish, Wild
 
Redmaids
 
Rocket, London
 
Ryegrasses
 
Sandburs
 
ShepherdsPurse
 
Smartweed
 
Sowthistles
 
Speedwells
 
Spurge, Spotted
 
Thistle, Russian
 
Velvetleaf
 
Volunteer Cereals
 
Water hemp
 
Yellow Nutsedge
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* And which weed species in your soybeans are showing resistance to EPSP Inhibitor?
Refer to the following list for herbicide brands associated with this chemical group.


 
Barley, Hare
 
Barnyardgrasses
 
Bluegrass, Annual
 
Bromegrasses
 
Canarygrasses
 
Chickweeds
 
Clovers
 
Cockleburs
 
Crabgrass
 
Cudweeds
 
Datura, Sacred
 
Docks (Seedling)
 
Downey Brome
 
Fescues
 
Fiddlenecks
 
Filarees
 
Fleabane, Hairy
 
Foxtail
 
Goosefoot
 
Groundcherries
 
Groundsels
 
Henbit
 
Horseweed/Marestail
 
Johnsongrass Rhizome
 
Johnsongrass Seed
 
Knotweed, Common
 
Kochia
 
Lambsquarters, Common
 
Lettuce, Prickly
 
Lovegrasses
 
Mallow, Little Cheeseweed)
 
Miner’s Lettuce
 
Mustards
 
Nettles
 
Nightshades
 
Oat, Wild
 
Orach, Halberdleaf
 
Palmer Pigweed
 
Pigweeds
 
Pineapple-Weed
 
Polypogon, Rabbitfoot
 
Popcorn Flower
 
Povertyweed, Nutall
 
Puncturevine
 
Purple Nutsedge
 
Purslane, Common
 
Radish, Wild
 
Redmaids
 
Rocket, London
 
Ryegrasses
 
Sandburs
 
ShepherdsPurse
 
Smartweed
 
Sowthistles
 
Speedwells
 
Spurge, Spotted
 
Thistle, Russian
 
Velvetleaf
 
Volunteer Cereals
 
Water hemp
 
Yellow Nutsedge
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* And which weed species in your soybeans are showing resistance to Photosynthesis Inhibitor?
Refer to the following list for herbicide brands associated with this chemical group.

 
Barley, Hare
 
Barnyardgrasses
 
Bluegrass, Annual
 
Bromegrasses
 
Canarygrasses
 
Chickweeds
 
Clovers
 
Cockleburs
 
Crabgrass
 
Cudweeds
 
Datura, Sacred
 
Docks (Seedling)
 
Downey Brome
 
Fescues
 
Fiddlenecks
 
Filarees
 
Fleabane, Hairy
 
Foxtail
 
Goosefoot
 
Groundcherries
 
Groundsels
 
Henbit
 
Horseweed/Marestail
 
Johnsongrass Rhizome
 
Johnsongrass Seed
 
Knotweed, Common
 
Kochia
 
Lambsquarters, Common
 
Lettuce, Prickly
 
Lovegrasses
 
Mallow, Little Cheeseweed)
 
Miner’s Lettuce
 
Mustards
 
Nettles
 
Nightshades
 
Oat, Wild
 
Orach, Halberdleaf
 
Palmer Pigweed
 
Pigweeds
 
Pineapple-Weed
 
Polypogon, Rabbitfoot
 
Popcorn Flower
 
Povertyweed, Nutall
 
Puncturevine
 
Purple Nutsedge
 
Purslane, Common
 
Radish, Wild
 
Redmaids
 
Rocket, London
 
Ryegrasses
 
Sandburs
 
ShepherdsPurse
 
Smartweed
 
Sowthistles
 
Speedwells
 
Spurge, Spotted
 
Thistle, Russian
 
Velvetleaf
 
Volunteer Cereals
 
Water hemp
 
Yellow Nutsedge
 
Other - pleas specify
 

 
 
 
* What strategies, if any, are you employing to minimize the risk of herbicide resistance development in your soybeans?
 
Additional pre-emergence herbicides
 
Additional tank-mixed herbicides with my post-emergence glyphosate
 
Alternating herbicides
 
Crop Rotation
 
Mixing chemistries
 
Land management techniques, tissue tests for resistance
 
None
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* Has this strategy changed over the past few years?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
 
How has it changed?
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Corn Fungicides
 
 
For this last section, please consider your corn acres and specifically fungicides use on your corn acres as you answer the following questions.
 
 
 
#1
   
#2
   
#3
   
#4
   
#5
   
 
 
 
* Have you used fungicides on your corn in the past three years?
 
Yes
 
No
 
 
 
* Thinking about the last time you used fungicides on your corn acres, on what percentage of your total corn acres did you use fungicides?
   %
 
 
 
* Which diseases are you most concerned about in your corn (Select all that apply)?
 
Anthracnose Stalk Rot
 
Aspergillus Ear Rot
 
Common Corn Ear Rots
 
Corn Ear Rots (Uncommon)
 
Common Rust of Corn
 
Diplodia Ear Rot
 
Diplodia Leaf Streak
 
Diplodia Stalk Rot
 
Downy Mildew
 
Eyespot
 
Fusarium Ear Rot
 
Fusarium Stalk Rot
 
Gibberella Ear Rot
 
Gibberella Stalk Rot
 
Goss's Wilt and Leaf Blight
 
Gray Leaf Spot
 
Northern Corn Leaf Blight
 
Physoderma Brown Spot
 
Pythium
 
Southern Leaf Blight
 
Southern Rust
 
Stewart's Bacterial Wilt and Blight
 
None
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* Which of the following types of corn fungicides do you normally use?

(Select all that apply)?
 
Seed treatment
 
Pre-plant fungicide
 
Foliar fungicide

 
 
 
Seed treatment
   %
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes how you use the fungicide seed treatment on your corn (Select all that apply)?
 
Planned plant health
 
Planned disease control
 
Rescue treatment only
 
To increase yield
 
As insurance against unforeseen weather or other events
 
Both plant health and disease control
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* How well has the corn fungicide seed treatment performed?
 
Excellent
 
Good
 
Fair
 
Poor
 
 
 
* Pre-plant fungicide only
   %
* Pre-plant fungicide plus insecticide
   %
* Pre-plant fungicide plus micronutrient/foliar feed
   %
* Pre-plant fungicide plus herbicide
   %
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes how the pre-plant fungicides on your corn are used (Select all that apply)?
 
Planned plant health
 
Planned disease control
 
Rescue treatment only
 
To increase yield
 
As insurance against unforeseen weather or other events
 
Both plant health and disease control
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
 
* How well has the pre-plant corn fungicide performed?
 
Excellent
 
Good
 
Fair
 
Poor
 
 
 
* Foliar fungicide only
   %
* Foliar fungicide plus insecticide
   %
* Foliar fungicide plus micronutrient/foliar feed
   %
* Foliar fungicide plus herbicide
   %
 
 
 
* Which of the following best describes how the foliar fungicides on your corn are used (Select all that apply)?
 
Planned plant health
 
Planned disease control
 
Rescue treatment only
 
To increase yield
 
As insurance against unforeseen weather or other events
 
Both plant health and disease control
 
Other - please specify
 

 
 
* How well has the foliar corn fungicide performed?
 
Excellent
 
Good
 
Fair
 
Poor
 
 
 
*  
 
 
What is the primary reason why you do not use foliar fungicides on your corn?
   
 
 
 
* What would you estimate is your yield gain in additional bushels per acre from using fungicides on your corn acres? Please enter any number up to 10 additional bushels per acre.
   Yield gain (i.e., additional bushels per acre you get from using fungicides)
 
 
 
* Do you apply fungicides to your corn with your own equipment or do you have it custom applied or both?
 
Own equipment
 
Custom application
 
Both
 
 
 
* What percentage of your corn fungicides is aerial applied?
   %
 
 
 
What is the primary reason why you do not use fungicides on your corn?
   
 
 
In general, do you expect the following types of fungicide treatments/applications to decrease, stay the same, or increase in 2016 on your corn acres? Please answer even if you have not used fungicides on your corn in the past.
Decrease Stay about the same Increase
* Seed treatment
* Pre-plant fungicides
* Foliar fungicides
 
 
Please rate the following factors in terms of their influence on your decision to use or switch to using a foliar fungicide for your corn? Use a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is the least influential and 10 is the most influential.
Least InfluentialMost Influential
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
* Past experience
* Cost
* Broad spectrum control
* Dealer recommendations
* Tank mix available
* Weather
* Corn prices
* Disease pressure
 
 
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