As farmers combine crops, Mike Meyer, Product Development Manager for Aproach Brand Fungicides with DuPont Crop Protection, tells Brownfield they will be assessing the crop. They will be thinking about the practices used in 2017 that worked and those that did not. Meyer said growers should access risk factors for disease such as tillage patterns and hybrids and varieties to determine how fungicides can be used in their program to manage disease going forward.
Although commodity prices are lower and many farmers are looking for areas they can cut back, Meyer says this is not the best time to cut back on fungicides.
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