YOU MANAGED HARVEST. You got through door close-up. You successfully applied your first dormancy enhancement/sprout suppressant treatment. Now, it’s March and you might be feeling nicely stress-free and in the clear. With luck and good management, your pile isn’t sprouting and remains rot-free. But what’s happening far out of sight at the bottom of that pile? Most of today’s potato storages range in capacity from 40,000 to 80,000 CWT. Stored potato piles regularly reach 18 feet in height. That’s a lot of weight pressing down on the tubers, especially those closest to the floor. Not surprisingly, many piles suffer pressure bruise, especially when tubers go into storage stressed, don’t receive adequate humidification, or are stored in poorly insulated buildings. Unfortunately, there’s nothing that can be done about pressure bruise, right? Wrong. 1,4SIGHT is a bio-control dormancy enhancer with important side benefits. Unlike CIPC, which effectively suppresses sprouting but does nothing more, 1,4SIGHT mitigates sprouting while also minimizing tubers’ water loss, increasing their turgidity and ability to withstand pressure. Applied or re-applied two to four weeks prior to bin load-out, 1,4SIGHT also decreases pressure bruise’s color formation at shipping, which can help producers capture quality premiums. No, 1,4SIGHT does not ‘take away’ pressure bruise – no product can heal bruised cells once bruising has occurred. Rather, 1,4SIGHT slows the development of bruising once tubers hit fresh air at shipping, which reduces the appearance of cut black.
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