Fighting Striped Rust in Wheat Over The Next Few Weeks

With Washington Ag Today I'm Susan Allen, Aginfo reporters attended Syngenta's Field day at their Grow More Site in Walla Walla Wednesday. We asked Andrew Fisher product Leader in Fungicides what he would recommend right now given our weather conditions for our dryland wheat farmers:

Fisher: It depends on where your crop stage is at , yesterday I was over in Pullman a lot of that wheat over there was just at the flag leaf stage, hands down Trivapro™ , you've got weather conditions the next two weeks so that stripe rust will continue to build, Trivapro™ is going to give you very good residuals upwards 25 days so that's by far the product I would be looking at in this type of environment. If that's where your crop stage is now with this spring wheat and you are coming in with an herbicide you want the longest lasting product out there Trivapro™ is still a good fit.

Any others that you would think would fit our growers conditions?

A lot of guys are looking at Trizol early with Herbicide and you could do that in your Spring wheat crop. I would recommend looking at Alto it's a more intrinsic than Trizol and does a better job on stripe rust and as there are some strip rust being seen in some of the spring wheat I looked at yesterday I would definitely think about an Alto application early and then scout and come back in, don't just wait for flag leaf to come back in, proactively scout. If the weather conditions continue and it sounds like they will for awhile here, that's where Trivapro™will give you very good residual and hopefully finish you off in the season. Fisher said it's an exciting time at Syngenta, with their slogan of 16 in 16. Meaning they are on track to launching 16 new products this year in what he calls the " most robust pipeline of new chemistry that he's ever been able to work with" .