Wheat School: Seed treatments for soil-borne diseases

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May 01, 2023

Source: RealAgriculture.com

Just because there’s not a lot of biological activity going on in the soil, doesn’t mean the risk for soil-borne disease goes away. As Shad Milligan of Syngenta explains in RealAgriculture's latest Wheat School episode, your best line of defence in order to get crop established is a seed treatment.

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