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Latest Crop News:
7/27/2010	“PEI potato crop ahead of schedule”
7/21/2010	“Potato contracts hearing winds up”
7/20/2010	“U.S. woes slash sales of MB potatoes”
7/20/2010	“2010 preliminary potato production”
7/20/2010	“Dramatic increase in hail claims”

Syngenta Technical Tools: Syngenta Pest Library: See this library for descriptions and images of key weed, disease and insect pests.
Corn & Soybean Quick Reference Guide “This 90 page .pdf file contains the 2010 Corn & Bean Quick Reference Guide. This Guide provides you with the product information you’ll need to make the right choices for your farming operation.”
2010 Potato Quick Reference Guide “The Potato Quick Reference Guide provides you with the product information you’ll need to make the right choices for your farming operation. This is your guide to the Syngenta family of products. Designed for your convenience, you’ll find everything you need to know about: - The Syngenta portfolio of products to fit your production needs - Pest thresholds - Insect and disease management”
2010 Wireworm Field Guide “This 17-page .pdf guide provides information and images to help you correctly identify wireworm damage, better understand factors that influence their behaviour and develop control strategies that will help you protect your crop so it can get off to the best possible start.”

Syngenta Solutions in Potatoes:
Actara® 240SC “Soluble Concentrate Insecticide for control of listed insect pests of potatoes.”
Allegro® 500F “Allegro 500F Agricultural Fungicide is an excellent disease control agent when used according to label directions for control of late blight of potato.”
Bravo® 500 “Excellent fungicide for control of a broad spectrum of plant diseases.”
Cruiser Maxx® Potatoes “CRUISER® MAXX Potato is a co-pack of Actara® 240SC and Maxim® Liquid PSP.”
Dual® II Magnum® “Emulsifiable concentrate for selective weed control in a number of crops.”
Fulfill® 50WG “For control of aphids including green peach, potato, buckthorn and foxglove aphid in potatoes.”
Gramoxone® “A non-residual herbicide for the control of many grasses and broadleaf weeds. Inactivated on contact with the soil.”
Matador® 120EC “For the control of insects on oilseeds, cereals, pasture, tree fruit, strawberries, tobacco, potatoes, tomatoes, cole crops, head lettuce, leeks, chokecherry, legume vegetables (Crop Group 6), bulb vegetables (Crop Group 3), and greenhouse lettuce.”
Maxim® MZ PSP “A dry powder for the treatment of potato seed pieces for the control of black scurf (Rhizoctonia solani), silver scurf (Helminthosporium solani), and Fusarium dry rot (Fusarium spp.).”
Maxim® PSP “A dry powder for the treatment of potato seed pieces for the control of Black Scurf (Rhizoctonia solani), Silver Scurf (Helminthosporium solani), and Fusarium Dry Rot (Fusarium spp.).”
Mertect® SC “A water dispersible suspension for the post-harvest control of potato tuber diseases caused by Fusarium spp., Phoma spp., Helminthosporium spp., Oospora spp., and Rhizoctonia spp. and apple and pear diseases caused by Penicillium spp. and Botrytis cinerea.”
Quadris® “A broad spectrum, preventative fungicide with systemic properties recommended for use in controlling diseases in canola and legume vegetables (dried shelled peas and beans, except soybeans subgroup), tomatoes, corn (Ontario only) and potatoes. Do not use on legume vegetables in British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.”
Reglone® Desiccant “A non-volatile, fast acting herbicide that is inactivated on contact with the soil. For potato vine killing, desiccation of pulse, oilseed, and legume forage seed crops, weed control in vegetable and field crops, control of corn spurry in oats and weed control in non-crop land and chemical mowing.”
Revus® “For control or suppression of certain foliar diseases in Brassica vegetables, bulb vegetables, cucurbits, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, leafy vegetables, and grapes.”
Ridomil Gold® 480SL “For the control of certain diseases caused by the Oomycete class of fungi in Apples (non-bearing), Field and Greenhouse Cucumbers, Ginseng, Hops, Raspberries, Blueberries, Snap Beans, Strawberries, Tobacco and Potatoes.”
Ridomil Gold®/Bravo® Twin-Pak™ “For the control of early blight, Botrytis vine rot, late blight, late blight tuber rot and the suppression of Pythium leak and pink rot in potatoes.”
Venture® L “Postemergence herbicide for the control of grasses in broadleaf crops such as peas, lentils, canola, mustard and soybeans.”