February 15th 2012 Issue

New fungicides benefit from lessons of Benlate

Fungicide resistance management is too important to be left to chance.

Fruit growers will have new fungicides this year to help manage diseases as diverse as leaf spot in cherries, scab in apples, and brown rot and scab on peaches. The new materials are so-called second-generation succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHI), similar in action to boscalid, one of the components of Pristine (the first in this new generation, registered in 2003), and they are being sold in a similar manner. They come in packaged premixtures, in which the new SDHI component is combined with an older fungicide with a different Fungicide Resistance Action Committee (FRAC) code and different mode of […]

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February 15, 2012

Pest Management, New Developments, Diseases, News, Richard Lehnert

Richard Lehnert

After growing up on a Michigan dairy farm, Richard Lehnert began writing about farming in 1962, while still a junior studying journalism at Michigan State University. He worked at newspapers for a year before joining the staff of Michigan Farmer, where he spent 26 years, the last 15 as chief editor. He was a member of the staff of Good Fruit Grower from 2010 until 2015. Read his stories: Story Index

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