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WWW.POTATOGROWER.COM 35 157023CSIChe12h.indd 1 11/13/15 9:04 AM Westbridge Agricultural Products • (509) 669-7600 • www.westbridge.com Certis USA • (800) 250-5024 • www.certisusa.com Organic Triggr, Organic BioLink Organic Triggr is a liquid auxiliary soil and plant input containing natural plant extracts. It provides plants with the energy boost they need by increasing photosynthesis, which leads to enhanced nutrient and water uptake and a stronger root system. Organic Triggr works well in combination with Westbridge's Organic BioLink nutritional program to promote good root development, improve seedling vigor, and improve tuber size and uniformity. The program enhances starter and pre-plant fertilizer efficiency and increases tuber specific gravity. Enhanced fertilizer efficiency has an equivalent effect to lengthening the growing season due to elevated starch deposition. When applied at key times during the growing cycle, Organic Triggr and the Organic BioLink nutritional program can improve potato grade and increase yield. Organic Triggr is water-soluble and is suitable for use in both organic and conventional production systems. LifeGard WG The EPA has registered LifeGard WG, the first foliar-applied biological plant activator available on the market, for use on potatoes, sugarbeets, fruiting vegetables, pecans and other specialty agricultural crops to control diseases. LifeGard's active ingredient, the Bacillus mycoides isolate J (BmJ), is a naturally occurring bacterium that triggers an induced systemic resistance (ISR) response in plants. This ISR response mode of action offers efficacy, resistance management materials, low residue levels, and crop and worker safety. LifeGard is NOP-approved and OMRI-listed, is residue exempt, has a four-hour REI, can be applied the day of harvest, and is bee safe. LifeGard triggers a plant's natural immune response to pathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses. Plants respond to initial detection of potentially pathogenic micro-organisms by "switching on" resistance genes, causing a cascade of metabolic responses to limit infection and disease development. LifeGard is unique in that it works entirely as a microbial ISR activator with no direct antagonistic effect on plant pathogens. LifeGard induces the same genetic resistance pathway as the class of chemical ISR inducers known as benzothiadiazoles, but for longer periods and with lower risk of phytotoxicity. BUYERS' GUIDE