Vive Crop Protection introduced Phobos FC Fungicide for cercospora control in sugarbeets a year ago. Vive Crop Protection Chief Technology Officer Doug Baumann said more was learned about the product over the past year. “We went back to the lab and we learned more and more about how Allosperse is changing prothioconazole and what we came up with is that we’re seeing double the amount of product left on a sugarbeet leaf following a rain event compared to Proline and about an eight percent increase in recoverable sugar per acre comparing heads on heads versus the competition.” Phobos leaves a thin, even layer on the leaves of the sugarbeet plant “as opposed to chunkier layer in a competitive product.” Baumann said the Phobos FC product dries down nice and flat, leaving more product where it is needed.
