Getting Ready for Potatoes
Getting Ready for Potatoes. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Line On Agriculture.
Snow is laying on the ground right now in many parts of the northwest but soon it will be time to get ready for potato season. Tony Zatylny (Za-till-nee) is the Director of Marketing for AMVAC Chemical Corporation talks about what they have to offer the potato grower.
ZATYLNY: Our company really started in 1969. We have a manufacturing site just outside of downtown LA and from there it’s grown into a agricultural and specialty chemical company that serves a wide range of market needs in both domestic U.S. business as well as international business. Most of our growth has come from acquiring mature chemistries from other companies and these chemistries have a lot of utility.
Zatylny says the company has grown considerably since then.
ZATYLNY: It has been exceptional. In fact over the last 2 or 3 years we’ve been the fastest growing company in ag chemicals in the U.S. Not from total dollar sales but from a percentage growth. So we’ve had some really exciting times over the past 2 or 3 years at least.
AMVAC is into their second year as a sponsor of the 2013 Potato Expo next week and Zatylny says they see good results from being associated with the Expo.
ZATYLNY: We’ve always been participants in the Potato Expo but usually in a much lower level but as we’ve acquired products that assist the potato industry we’ve now reached the point where 16% of our revenue comes from potatoes. And so we’re taking a much larger role in the potato industry and as a sponsor of the Potato Expo.
He says they are looking forward to talking with growers and have some new things to share with them.
ZATYLNY: As of December 1, 2012 new labels and new rules have been put in place around stewardship of those products and so we want to make sure we have a chance to talk to growers about what they need to do to be ready for the 2013 application season. Plus we have a new potato sprout inhibitor which is pending registration which we hope to see in the market in 2013. We’d like to talk to growers about some new products as well.
That’s today’s Line On Agriculture. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.
