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Windset Farms and Verdant Technologies will partner on a retail pilot for tomatoes-on-the-vine supplied from Mexico into select retailers in the U.S., with the intent to expand into additional locations. Windset will use Verdant’s HarvestHold Fresh, a postharvest shelf-life extension solution. The retail pilot is expected to launch this month. ....
Growers who have dealt with Soybean Cyst Nematode or Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) know that both are perpetual challenges, potentially creating substantial issues when planting into that environment. Syngenta‘s Saltro fungicide proved to protect against these threats during the 2020 growing season, which was the first it was available commercially. “It protects the plant against SDS, it protects the plant against Soybean Cyst Nematode,” said Paul Oklesh, Syngenta Seed Care Product Lead for the U.S. Soybean Portfolio. “It keeps that infection level in the roots low, so that if you get the right environmental conditions later in the season that would normally flush those toxins up into the canopy of the plant, you don’t have as much disease pressure in the roots so you don’t see as much disease pressure in the canopy later.” ....