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Growers having success with Bayer’s Delaro fungicide

Fungicide resistance continues to be a challenge for crop farmers.

Ray Lello, broad acre fungicide product manager for Bayer, says plant diseases are adapting to technologies used to combat them.

“(resistance) is extremely common.  We see it in soybeans in the south in frog-eye leaf spot, which is a pretty detrimental disease.”

Speaking to Brownfield at the Farm Progress Show, Lello says Bayer offers a fungicide called Delaro that features multiple modes of action.

“There’s two main chemistries in Delaro, a strobilurin and a triazole.  And the triazole has been increased to a rate where we see an increase in residual control on key diseases we didn’t previously see, namely gray leafspot.”

Lello says Delaro has helped increase stalk quality in corn, and can also manage white mold in soybeans.