Looking Ahead

It won’t be long now until you need to start planning your 2016 potato crop and according to Jennifer Holland, Product Manager, Specialty Fungicides with BASF, now is a good time to consider what you might use.

HOLLAND: We really encourage growers to take a plan approach to the area and we believe that with Priaxor as well as Endura fungicide, both of them make a great compliment to a planned acre from an agronomic perspective.

She describes the benefits of Priaxor fungicide.

HOLLAND: One of the things we’ve noticed time and time again in our research trials is that potatoes can really experience stress at various points throughout the season and one of the things that Priaxor fungicide does is it delivers two modes of action to help protect both from a disease control perspective as well as from the advanced plant health benefits that we see. So we see increased photosynthesis and overall better quality potatoes when growers take an agronomic approach, a planned approach to their acre that includes Priaxor fungicide.

Holland talks about Priaxor’s use.

HOLLAND: Priaxor is used in furrow and at planting for Rhizoctonia and also prior to row closure for Black Dot control. And it can also be used after row closure for early blight control which really does two things for growers. It maximizes disease control and ultimately protects yield and quality.

And that’s Washington Ag Today. I’m Greg Martin, thanks for listening on the Ag Information Network of the West.