It's Sphaerex™ fungicide, not "Spandex".....

As with all newer products, brand-name recognition and/or particularly pronunciation sometimes have a little getting used to. Sphaerex™ ("Sphere-Ex") , although initially not excluded from this diction concern, is gaining rapid interest and adoption in wheat and barley fields across the U.S. and Canada.

Sphaerex™ fungicide provides excellent best-in-class control of Fusarium head blight (Head Scab) significantly limiting the production of the vomitoxin, deoxynivalenol (D.O.N.).

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring 2021 BASF Trial at Murray State, KY, Flowering application of 7.3 oz/A Sphaerex™ fungicide. Photos taken 27 DAT.

Sphaerex™ fungicide brings together two of the premier active ingredients - metconazole and prothioconazole - to control head scab. Sphaerex™ fungicide has been shown to protect yield potential and out-perform other fungicides with the greatest reduction in D.O.N available.

\\📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring summary of 10 trials conducted in wheat in 2020. Wheat and Barley Head Scab Initiative, including DE, IL, IN, KY, MD, MO, ND, and WA. Early flowering application of 7.3 oz/A Sphaerex™ fungicide. Measurement taken from harvested grain.

D.O.N. reduces the value of your wheat crop by negatively impacting grain quality. The vomitoxin limits marketability of grain with threshold levels in cereals for baking and malting as low as 1 - 2 ppm (parts per million).

APPLICATION TIMING:

Head scab Infections are most serious when the anthers are exposed during flowering.

Symptoms can develop in as little as three days after infection. The most effective way to reduce D.O.N. levels and control Fusarium Head Scab is to apply Sphaerex™ fungicide at Feekes 10.5.1 or early flowering.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring Sphaerex™ fungicide application at the start of flowering for maximum protection. Photos taken 4/28/22 Dyersburg, TN.

Research from the US wheat and barley head scab initiative indicated that Sphaerex™ fungicide reduced D.O.N. levels below threshold 90% of the time and more than 50% less than the untreated check.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring summary of 10 trials conducted in wheat in 2020. Wheat and Barley Head Scab Initiative, including DE, IL, IN, KY, MD, MO, ND, and WA. Early flowering application of 7.3 oz/A Sphaerex™ fungicide. Measurement taken from harvested grain.

In additional studies evaluating fungicide application timing, wheat sprayed at early to mid-flowering (feekes 10.5.1) reduced D.O.N. levels 26% more compared to applications made at 50% heading (feekes 10.3) averaged across Sphaerex™ fungicide, Miravis Ace and Prosaro treatments.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring summary of 7 trials conducted in wheat in 2019. Sponsored by BASF, including MI, ND, NY, OH and WA. 7.3 oz/A Sphaerex™ fungicide. Competitor A applied at 13.5oz/A. Competitor B applied at 6.5 oz/A. Head scab application made at growth stages 50% heading or early to mid flowering. Measurement taken from harvested grain.

Various University trials have also showed the benefits of a timely Sphaerex™ fungicide application for managing Fusarium head scab and increasing wheat yields.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring 2022 University of Kentucky Sphaerex™ fungicide trial results between Sphaerex™ fungicide vs. Competitors A and B.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring Featuring 2021 University of TN Sphaerex™ fungicide trial results between Sphaerex™ fungicide vs. Competitors "A" and "B."

Sphaerex™ fungicide provides performance growers can count on with additional benefits of low use rate, tank-mix flexibility and the most rapid rainfastness in the industry.

📸: BASF internal photograph/Featuring Sphaerex™ fungicide application rate, tank mix, package size and rainfastness product datasheet.

📸: BASF internal video/Featuring Sphaerex™ fungicide.

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