A Minnesota agronomist suspects fungicides do a lot more than fight plant diseases.
Mark Glady with WinField United says part of his job involves evaluating treated and untreated fields.
“This year doing three different times in mid-July, late July, and mid-August, I was really hard-pressed to find any foliar diseases. Yet we still came back with 12 to 15-bushel yield responses for applying a foliar fungicide at tassel time.”
He tells Brownfield most growers tend to associate fungicides exclusively with controlling fungus.
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