Syngenta has launched Vibrance RST rice seed treatment, which contains four different fungicidal modes of action to control seedborne, soilborne and seedling diseases, according to a news release. The four active ingredients are: • Azoxystrobin, a Group 11 fungicide, protects against Rhizoctonia and Pythium species and some soilborne and seedborne diseases, including rice blast. • Fludioxonil, a Group 12 fungicide, ... Read More »
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Based on cool weather, UC recommends changes in N, pest strategies
• By Bruce Linquist and Luis Espino • Earlier this week, I sent out a blog discussing N management during a wet year. In the blog, one scenario (Scenario 2) mentioned was, “I decided not to apply aqua but just go ahead and flood field when the rains started.” I was traveling around the valley yesterday looking at fields, and ... Read More »
Cool weather slows Mississippi rice planting, emergence
By Susan M. Collins-Smith — Spring’s cool temperatures have rice producers playing the waiting game in Mississippi. The crop is 60 percent planted, but very little of it has emerged, says Bobby Golden, a rice and soil fertility agronomist with the Read More »