Potatoes
Improved Rhizoctonia seed treatment now widely available
n improved tuber treat- ment containing pen- flufen for control of Rhizoctonia solani and black scurf is now widely available for use in 2019 plantings.
A The product – Emesto Prime
DS – was available in limited quantities last season due to it receiving regulatory approval close to the start of the 2018 sea- son. But it is available in bigger amounts this season, says man- ufacturer Bayer.
Described as a valuable ad- dition to Bayer’s potato range
Emesto Prime DS gives the best control of seed-borne Rhizocto- nia and was well received among growers in 2018, says Edward Hagues, the company’s campaign manager for root crops. “On every measure, be it black scurf incidence on tubers, crop emergence, final stand, tuber size distribution or marketable yield, Emesto Prime DS delivers substantial positive effects. It has
Emesto Prime DS is said to deliver substantial positive effects
also shown useful reductions in silver scurf.” A trial performed at Fife by Scottish Agronomy in 2018 underlines the product’s performance against black scurf, says Mr Hagues. It used heavily infected seed with tubers from the un- treated crop suffering a 47% incidence of black scurf. Tubers from the Emes-
Incidence of black scurf post-harvest – 2018 trial performed by Scottish Agronomy, Fife (Source: Bayer)
to-treated crops were found to contain no detectable levels of black scurf compared with 2% for Monceren DS (pencycuron) and 12% for Rhino DS (flutolanil). “The trial highlights the per- formance of Emesto and Moncer- en and their role in delivering crops with a quality skin finish within the parameters demanded by the market,” says Mr Hagues.
Containing the SDHI active substance penflufen at 2% w/w the maximum dose rate is 1 kg/ tonne of seed tubers at plant- ing. It can be used on all varie- ties but must only be applied us- ing automated powder dispenser equipment fitted on an automat- ic planter.
Mr Hagues says the company had been encouraging the transi- tion to on-planter application for more than 10 years with steward- ship training and demonstration of on-planter applicators. “The use of on-planter appli- cators is now commonplace, and growers have a range of machines to choose from, for example Team Sprayers offers applicators for most popular brands of cup and belt planter including those from Standen, Grimme and Miedema.”
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