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Bayer's Armada registered for lawn care.(In the Know: NEWS YOU CAN USE)

Landscape Management

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MONTVALE, NJ -- Bayer Environmental Science's Armada 50WP, is a fungicide designed for residential and commercial lawn care. The company expects to make it available sometime this month.

State registrations are underway for Armada, which recently received its U.S. EPA approval It is registered for turf, athletic fields and parks. Bayer plans to add ornamentals to the label soon.

"Our company spent a couple of years talking to customers in the professional lawn care market. They told us they were unhappy with their current fungicide options for two reasons: price and duration of action," said Mike Daly, director of marketing--Green Business for Bayer. "The cost-effective products they had been using were no longer labeled."

Armada combines two Bayer fungicides: Compass (a.i.: ...

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