New York OKs Bayer's Exteris Stressgard
Exteris Stressgard, a combination fungicide from Bayer Environmental Science, has received label registration for use in New York.
With the active ingredients fluopyram and trifloxystrobin, Exteris Stressgard is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor offering both preventive and curative disease control as well as formulation enhancements through a combination of Leaf-Cote technology and Stressgard formulation technology.
With two active ingredients, Exteris Stressgard is formulated for broad-spectrum control of foliar diseases like dollar spot, brown patch and leaf spot while also offering additional benefits, such as fast knock-down of damaging mycelium and dew mitigation under certain conditions.
With Leaf-Cote technology, Exteris Stressgard offers improved product retention on the leaf surface, sticking where it's needed most – at the site of fungal activity. Additionally, thanks to Stressgard formulation technology, it also has been shown to deliver stress mitigation and improved turf quality.
Exteris Stressgard is not registered for use in Nassau and Suffolk counties in New York.
Wiedenmann taps new territory manager
Wiedenmann North America recently named Kent Orban as territory manager for parts of eastern North America.
Orban brings more than 17 years of experience in the turf industry, including the past five as territory account manager for Shearer Equipment.
He will be responsible for all sales and customer support initiatives for north-central and northeastern North America.
He can be reached at kent@wiedenmannusa.com.
California gives thumbs-up to PBI-Gordon's Tekken
Tekken fungicide from PBI-Gordon Corp. has been approved for use in California.
A combination product with the active ingredients isofetamid and tebuconazole, Tekken is approved for use on golf course greens, tees and fairways for control of more than 20 turf diseases, including dollar spot, anthracnose and brown patch in cool- and warm-season turf.
Tekken's dual mode of action provides preventive and systemic control for up to 28 days per application. Research trials show that it can also result in increased turf quality and reduces phytotoxicity and thinning of creeping bentgrass, compared with DMI-only applications.
