Richard was one of the first farmers to trial Revystar XE, using it as part of pre-commercial launch trials, nearly 6-years ago. Now it is the cornerstone of all his fungicide programmes across the farm. And following the loss of chlorothalonil (CTL), he says more pressure is on effective T1 sprays.
“T0s can be difficult to get right now there’s no CTL. Also, having flexibility on timings due to the Xemium aspect of Revystar XE means the application window is slightly wider, which is particularly useful when leaf layer emergence isn’t consistent.
“Revystar XE is a building block for me –– in high disease pressure years with dirty varieties we use it at T1, otherwise it’s my go-to for T2. In really difficult years we’ll use it at both timings.”