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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)
Ohio’s soybean season may be winding down, but there are still numerous diseases and pests that growers are contending with. Anne Dorrance, Ohio State University plant pathologist, said that growers should scout and manage these fields where needed to keep late-season soybean diseases at bay. (Source: Corn and Soybean Digest, 8/28/07)
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.
As a custom applicator for more than 15 years, Dean Mehlhaff of Ipswich, SD, has seen a lot of changes. And the one that makes him the most optimistic is the introduction of Headline ® fungicide.
Headline® fungicide can prevent disease and boost your yields. It can also make those additional bushels easier to harvest.
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