THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

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Are you battling soil-borne disease? Be your own hero.

Make soil fumigation part of your fall farm plan. The choice you make NOW will impact next year’s production. Strike is a true soil fumigant actively moving through the soil profile suppressing soil-borne disease. It acts like a heat seeking missile against debilitating early die complex caused by verticillium and is the ONLY product that consistently reduces common scab. Improve your soil health and marketable yields with a Strike application this fall.

STRIKE Helps Manage:

Common Scab
Verticillium Wilt
Black Dot
Pythium
Rhizoctonia

Higher Marketable Yields
Extensive, Healthy Root System
Earlier growth
Better Utilization of Nutrients
Reduced Rotation Length

Trial Highlight: Maine Fresh Market Norwis

Strike 85 vs. Grower Standard Treatment Soil Fumigation Trial.

Norwis is a common scab magnet. At this farm, it was being grown for the fresh market. The Grower Standard (no fumigation) had 230 cwt/A culls (can’t be sold) because of common scab compared to Strike 85 at 48 cwt/A. This resulted in the Strike 85 treated plants producing 224 more cwt/A in marketable yield. At a low price of $20/cwt, that is a return of $4,480/A. Around a net of $4,000/A after the cost of Strike.

Table 1. Yield Data (cwt/planted A) for the Norwis Soil Fumigation Trial

*Culls were because of severe common scab
Treatment	Culls*	>1″	C size 1″ – 1 5/8″	B size 1 5/8″ – 2″	A size 2″ – 3″	Chefs >3″	MKT Yield	Total Yield
Grower Stand. (No Fum)	230	1	4	5	32	20	62	293
Strike 85	48	1	6	11	250	18	286	359
Difference	-182	0	2	6	218	-2	224	66
T-Test (p value)	0.021	0.861	0.358	0.115	0.004	0.858	0.003	0.001

Table 2. Yield Data (1000 tubers/planted A) for the Norwis Soil Fumigation Trial

Treatment	Culls*	>1″	C size 1″ – 1 5/8″	B size 1 5/8″ – 2″	A size 2″ – 3″	Chefs >3″	MKT Yield	Total Yield
Grower Stand. (No Fum)	89.7	9.8	9.4	4.7	13.8	3.3	31.2	130.7
Strike Plus	29.0	8.7	14.5	10.2	85.7	3.3	113.6	151.4
Difference	-60.62	-1.09	5.1	5.4	71.9	0.0	82.4	21
T-Test (p value)	0.006	0.768	0.370	0.094	0.006	1.000	0.015	0.023