Serenade

Serenade

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Ran into Nevada Smith, the Herbicide Product Manager for Bayer Crop Sciences at a recent symposium. He had a product that he said was great for a lot of things but specifically talked potatoes. "Serenade® ASO fungicide is a powerful tool designed to protect against the effects of soil and foliar bacterial and fungal diseases. Applied at planting or through chemigation, Serenade quickly builds a disease-protection zone around the seed or transplant. As the plant's roots grow, the beneficial bacteria in Serenade ASO formulated and provided at optimized levels grow with them, expanding the disease protection zone and attaching themselves, like armor, to the roots of the plant. Applied as a foliar spray, Serenade ASO protects crops against diseases such as Botrytis, Powdery mildew, Sclerotinia, Xanthomonas and Erwinia. Consumers are really looking at the future of ag and potatoes are a big driver of that. They want to see lower chemical residues and Serenade has an exemption from residue tolerances so growers are working with us and we are teaching each other how to rotate out of and decrease the uses of those chemicals and still maintain the efficacy that they are looking for, for disease pest management."
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