More Information from Farm Futures Summit

Dan Westerberg of BASF made a presention on crop protection at the summit.  He spent about half his presentation talking about managing glyphosate resistant weeds.  He then spent a good deal of time presenting evidence in support of fungicide usage.  He never made one mention of fungicide resistance.  While I agree that it is past time to manage for glyphosate resistance, a good crop adviser must also be thinking about preventing fungicide resistance as well.  The way we can postpone fungicide resistance is by using fungicides only when we need them.  Yes I know the theory that fungicides promote plant health regardless of infection level.  That said, using fungicides all the time is no better than using the same herbicide all the time.  We need to use fungicides judiciously in order to keep them in our crop protection arsenal for as long as possible.