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WPC Welcomes TriCal Group as its Newest Platinum Sustaining Partner

The World Potato Congress Inc.’s (WPC) Board of Directors is very pleased to announce TriCal Group as its newest Platinum Sustaining Partner. President & CEO Romain Cools stated:”TriCal Group is a wonderful addition to our family of Sustaining Partners. Welcome TriCal Group!”

“We are ecstatic to be a Platinum Sustaining Partner and part of the World Potato Congress family. The TriCal group strives to be an integral part of that sustainable production with our potato clients worldwide. A natural fit with the WPC’s mission to “create a value chain network to lead sustainable growth and development of the potato to meet increased global use and demand”

The TriCal Group is a privately-held family of companies committed to promoting a beneficial soil environment for potato production around the world. Driven by our Strike branded products, our group is dedicated to helping potato producers, distributors, and marketers with a wide range of soil solutions designed for efficient and sustainable production.

These services include expertise in diagnostics, irrigation/fertilization, grafted plants, equipment innovation, as well as the manufacturing, distribution, and application of our Strike soil fumigant products. Our mission is to: Build Soil Health with Real Yield Results. That’s Sustainability!

For more than 50 years, the TriCal group has partnered with farmers, governmental agencies, and independent Universities to demonstrate that our Strike fumigant products are effective tools to manage soilborne diseases in potatoes (including nematodes, Verticillium wilt, common scab, Rhizoctonia, Colletotrichum, Fusarium, Pythium, and Phytophthora).

Suppresses soilborne diseases. Promotes native beneficial soil microbes. Increases plant production efficiency. Produces more potatoes on less land. Reduces crop production inputs. Increases marketable yields.

To learn more about the TriCal Group and the Strike family of products, please visit us online at:

Web: www.strikefumigants.com and www.tricalgroup.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trical-group/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TriCalGroup

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