In this season’s MAT Sugarbeet Planting Report, Trevor Kraus, technical agronomist for BASF, has talked about the benefits of Provysol fungicide and timing.
It also works well within BASF’s sugarbeet portfolio.
“Provysol is going out in that early season application and maybe on the third or fourth application, Priaxor fungicide has had a good fit to not only bring the cercospora control, but there’s been concerns about other pathogens out there. We know Priaxor is giving us plant health benefits. When we put Priaxor in that rotation, we’re seeing higher yields, higher sugar content, better looking beets.”
There are limited chemistries on the market to fight cercospora leaf spot. Kraus says he’s excited that cercospora resistance plus performance varieties, or CR+, will cut spray applications.
“We can go from spraying fungicides six or seven times with conventional sugarbeets, and we can cut that down to three or four fungicide applications with the CR+ sugarbeets,” he says.
Kraus is expecting this technology to pay off in the long run.
“Instead of going out with the triazole and going out with a tin and going our with the strobilurin, we’re going to see more mixed modes of action in each of those applications,” he says. “Our second spray on CR+, we might combine a triazole, a strobi, an SDHI and protectant. We’re putting out four modes of action, but we’re only going to do that three times during the season.”
