Start Your Season on the Rise

Bayer CropScience unveiled a new potato program at Potato Expo. Senior Technical Sales Representative John Martin said the 75-day program focuses on integrated potato management pre-plant through harvest. “We want to get a good foundation in the beginning so we start with our Emesto Silver seed treatment, putting Admire Pro down and then we’ve got a new product called Velum Rise,” said Martin. “It’s typically used as a nematicide but we’ve also added two active (ingredients) in there, penflufen and fluopyram. It’s really good early season for black dot. If anyone’s thinking about Rhizoctonia, Rise would replace their Rhizoctonia program that they’d have in place today.” Listen to RRFN’s report.