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Headline Fungicide: Plant Health for Corn and Soybeans

Headline fungicide has become a major crop protection product for corn, not as a fungicide but as an overall plant health product. In this story BASF Vice President Emmanual Butstraen offers more insight on the plant health benefits of Headline . (Source: Agwired.com, 9/17/07)

About a third of Arkansas’ roughly 3-million acre soybean crop is still in danger from exposure to Asian soybean rust. According to Cliff Coker, an extension plant pathologist, when you spray a fungicide for rust, “you get the benefit of controlling other diseases.” (Source: Delta Farm Press, 9/12/07)

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If you applied Headline® fungicide this year and if years of trial data are any indication, you’ve made the right choice for your crop. Thousands of growers, including the world soybean-yield record holder and the national corn-yield champion, got substantial yield boosts last year, thanks to the disease control and Plant Health™ benefits of Headline.

Results from the most extensive on-farm trial program confirm powerful disease control is linked with consistent average yield boosts of 12 to 16 bu/A in corn and 4 to 8 bu/A in soybeans with Headline ® fungicide.

BASF is getting into the seed treatment business in a big way. Going into this February, BASF offered three seed treatment products. By 2009, though, BASF will bring its seed treatment offerings up to 11. (Source: Successful Farming; 2/29/2008)

Fungicide use on corn is increasing because of the promise of a good return. BASF’s Gary Fellows said farmers can apply Headline at all stage of corn, but prior to tasseling, they shouldn’t use an adjuvant. (Source: DTNAg.com, 2/21/08)