Protecting their crops is always top of mind for farmers. And crop protection companies are constantly developing new products and formulations to address disease challenges and other threats that arise every year. The following are some new fungicides producers in Western Canada can look for in 2022.
BASF
Sphaerex
Registered for use on wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale crops, Sphaerex is a Group 3 fungicide offering broad spectrum protection against a wide range of late-season cereal diseases. Combining the two powerful active ingredients prothioconazole and metconazole, Sphaerex helps provide growers with management of fusarium head blight and a reduction in deoxynivalenol (DON), which can significantly affect yield and negatively alter grain quality.
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Veltyma
Veltyma is registered for use on multiple crops including corn, wheat and soybeans. It offers broad spectrum control against key leaf diseases in corn, including northern corn leaf blight, tar spot, common rust, eyespot and gray leaf spot, and in wheat it provides control against septoria leaf blotch, leaf rust, stripe rust and tan spot. Veltyma contains the active ingredients pyraclostrobin (Group 11) and Revysol, a Group 3 isopropanol-azole, which was discovered and developed by BASF. According to BASF, Revysol’s unique molecular structure binds target enzymes more powerfully than other Group 3 products, providing best-in-class performance on a broad spectrum of diseases, including some disease strains that have become resistant to other Group 3 fungicides.
Vercoras
Vercoras is the first BASF seed treatment for InVigor hybrid canola. Thanks to its four fungicide active ingredients — metalaxyl (Group 4), pyraclostrobin (Group 11) and fluopyram and fluxapyroxad (both Group 7) — Vercoras can provide broad spectrum protection against key seed- and soil-borne diseases like blackleg, fusarium, rhizoctonia and pythium during the critical early-season infection period. It also contains the insecticide active ingredient clothianidin (Group 4), which provides baseline protection against flea beetles.
BAYER CROPSCIENCE
Prosaro Pro
Registered for use on wheat and barley, Prosaro Pro is the highest-yielding cereal fungicide in the Bayer portfolio. Containing fluopyram (Group 7) and the two Group 3 active ingredients prothioconazole and tebuconazole, this multi-mode of action solution provides protection against fusarium head blight, DON and all major leaf diseases including blotch (glume, leaf, net, spot), rusts (leaf, stem, stripe) and tan spot. Prosaro Pro also enters the market as the only foliar fungicide that suppresses ergot.
NUFARM
Zeltera
Registered for soybeans, lentils, field peas, chickpeas, dry beans and faba beans, Zeltera is an easy-to-apply seed treatment that offers robust, broad spectrum control of seed- and soil-borne diseases in pulses. The fungicide features four modes of action — metalaxyl (Group 4), inpyrfluxam (Group 7), mandestrobin (Group 11) and ethaboxom (Group 22) — that enable it to target every labelled class of pulse disease to manage resistance development. Zeltera also provides built-in aphanomyces and fusarium root rot suppression.
UPL AGROSOLUTIONS
Roxar
Roxar provides effective protection against fusarium head blight and other damaging foliar diseases in wheat and barley. This Group 3 fungicide contains a highly systemic triazole, which moves quickly through the xylem for rapid uptake and broad spectrum disease control, including control of stem rust, stripe rust and tan spot, and suppression of fusarium head blight, septoria leaf spot and glume blotch.
Zolera FX
Zolera FX is a multi-mode of action fungicide with residual activity for pulse crops. It contains fluoxastrobin (Group 11), a fast-acting and highly systemic strobilurin, at full rate, along with tetraconazole (Group 3), a highly systemic triazole, at full rate. UPL says the combination of two powerful active ingredients provides more reliable and consistent performance, more robust disease control with both preventive and curative activity, more plant health benefits and, ultimately, higher yields.
WINFIELD UNITED
Holdfast
Registered for use on most broadleaf crops including cereals, canola, soybeans and corn, Holdfast is a broad spectrum systematic fungicide containing prothioconazole (Group 3), which is effective against numerous diseases. It suppresses fusarium in wheat and barley and controls sclerotinia in canola and Asian soybean rust and frogeye leaf spot in soybeans. As well, it suppresses fusarium and gibberella ear rot and stalk rot pathogens in corn. And because of its activity on ear rot, Holdfast effectively reduces DON levels. Holdfast also features flexible adjuvant selection based on water volume.
