I thought maybe Ron answered his own question when he said he could find out where I was located (kinda spooky actually)  but if you must know, I'm an agronomist for a retail fertilizer company which deals solely with farmer/growers. I like to think that I provide a unique prospective because I could have easily jumped on the fungicide bandwagon (profits are good ) but I did not because the supporting evidence is just not there.

And yes, I have run many side-by side's over the past three years - more so on soybeans - and my results have pretty much been in line with the universities. The exception was last year. There were some tremendous yield differences where fungicides were used on corn, but since I have seen them used across a variety of years, I'm not ready to go whole hog based upon one years results and I fail to understand why the industry has do so. Profit margins are way down, that's for sure, but I do believe in the long run it's bad business - especially when I can only guarantee a return on a growers investment 27% of the time http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/2006/6-26/fungicides.html .