Fungicides

Tar spot and southern rust are increasing concerns and require a proactive management plan. Some fungicides can mitigate these and other diseases while protecting plants from stress. Retailers can guide your decisions.

Availability could be a challenge this season. If you can only make one application, pull the trigger between tassel and R3 in corn and between R2 and R3 in soybeans, advises Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.

Alec Horton begins every wheat crop aiming for 100 bu. per acre dryland yield through seed treatments, proper seeding rates, tiller promotion, vegetative growth reduction and moisture conservation. However, he didn’t see a 121.48-bushel bin buster in the cards when he planted “Joe” in the fall of 2015.

Rotation is only defense against this new soybean disease

See the latest crop technology from companies like AgBiTech, Innvictis Crop Care, LLC,, Syngenta, and more.

To increase the speed and probability of discovering new crop protection products, Monsanto is collaborating with Atomwise.

The Farm Journal Test Plots study how foliar fungicide impacts yield and how to get the most out of the fungicide dollar.

Farm Journal Test Plots studies how foliar fungicide use increases yield.

Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. is introducing a new tool to help farmers fight pests in a variety of crops. The fungicide, Amplitude, is approved for the 2018 season and uses the same active ingredient as Stargus.

Early this week Syngenta announced that it and Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd have entered an agreement with Nufarm to sell a portfolio of crop protection products for $490 million.