Optimize your inputs

Expert offers crop protection tips when budgets are tight

Janelle Atyeo
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024

Brady Spangeberg, director of marketing for crop protection at BASF, stands by a soybean test plot at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, in August.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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This season posed a challenge for applying herbicides and fungicides in a timely manner.

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BASF technical marketing manager Albre Brown checks a tar spot tracking map on her phone. She encourages growers to be award of disease pressure, staying in touch with extension networks and making a preventative treatment if diseases are creeping into your area.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Janelle Atyeo

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Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.