Another fungicide registered in the PNW to combat stripe rust

Farm and Ranch May 13, 2011 The stripe rust pressure on wheat in the Pacific Northwest this year has prompted Syngenta to get another fungicide registered for growers in the region, adding to a line up that already includes Tilt and Quilt. Syngenta’s Don Drader says growers have been mixing a fungicide with their herbicide application but some producers may need a second application, in some instances possibly a third.

Drader: “Because we feel there is a potential shortage of fungicides with the heavy load of disease pressure, we are actually going to bring in a third fungicide to the cereal market that we have marketed in other parts of the world and the soybeans that has a label that they can use on wheat. That is called Alto.”

Drader says Alto has been registered now in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

Drader: “We are trying to limit the use of the product to just mainly the Washington border counties of Idaho and Oregon because we don‘t feel it is going to be a long term product in the marketplace but it is something a grower can use today if he needs it.”

Alto is in the same group of fungicides as Tilt.

Also available for northwest cereal growers this spring is the herbicide Axial Star.

Drader: “Axial Star is a combination of Axial and Starane so it is going to give them both broadleaf control and grassy weed control.”

And you can tank mix that herbicide with a fungicide.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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