A new formulation of second-generation triazoles and chlorothalonil doesn't sound too exciting. But grower trials suggest it may have a place. If you asked any respected cereal fungicide expert before last season whether a combination of older triazoles and chlorothalonil could match the current triazole standards epoxiconazole and prothioconazole, the answer would likely have been "no". But 79 farmer trials with Syngenta's newly approved "older" triazole-based Cherokee containing propiconazole + cyproconazole + chlorothalonil provide evidence it can compete with the best, according to the firm's Matthew Pickard.
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