WSU tops in placing veterinary grads in advanced trainiing; FMC's Brigadier for in-plant for potatoes

Washington Ag Today March 30, 2011 Some 78 percent of all Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine graduates who apply for advancing training in an internship or residency program are accepted. WSU says that is the highest percentage of all U.S. veterinary colleges. The results were tabulated by the American Association of Veterinary Clinicians.

WSU President Elson Floyd says the ranking provides further evidence of the outstanding results being achieved in the veterinary college and is a great tribute to the work that is being done there everyday by students, faculty and staff.

FMC Corporation says its Brigadier insecticide is now approved for at-plant use in potatoes. The company says that makes it one of the only broad-spectrum insecticides products labeled for at-plant and foliar use in potatoes. FMC Technical Sales Manager Sam Lockhart says the new registration adds another tool to the potato grower’s tool box.

Lockhart: “What you get with Brigadier is you get at-plant control for a lot of soil insects including wireworm, but they also get systemic activity of foliar insects later in the season such as Colorado potato beetles, aphids and some other chewing and sucking insects.”

Lockhart says Brigadier has two modes of action making it an excellent resistance management partner and it should tank mix with just about anything a potato grower would use.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net.