Dr. Huckaba, USA Sales Manager Bruce Jacobs, Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson, and USA Credit Manager Bill Reinbott, Dr. Adrienne Gorny from NC State Extension and consultant Chris Pierce came together plow up, harvest and sort sweetpotatoes for ongoing trials Eureka, NC.
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Our Director of R&D Dr. Randy (RM) Huckaba was in Eureka, NC harvesting a sweetpotato experiment. The test treatments included TELONE™ II as well as TELONE™/Chloropicrin combinations. The results showed TELONE™ provided very good control of the devastating guava root-knot nematode.
Our Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson, was onsite at the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission's Annual Field Day. This event is held in conjunction with North Carolina State University's Extension Program and is an excellent opportunity to connect with researchers and sweetpotato growers.
In the Summer/Fall of 2022 TriEst Ag Group did a mixture study that focused on Enterolobii in Nash County, NC. The trial evaluated the use of TELONETM, C15, and C35 at 6 GPA (22 GPA broadcast) shank applied in-row 14” deep with 10” of stack.
Nematodes are a common pest in sweetpotato-growing areas. This blog post will cover most common and destructive nematode affecting sweetpotatoes in North Carolina—the guava root-knot nematode— and recap a sweetpotato field trial that was done to demonstrate TELONE™ efficacy.