Syngenta Updates Web Site

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Syngenta Professional Products announced updates and enhancements to its customizable online management tool, GreenCast (www.greencastonline.com). Based on customer feedback, these improvements will elevate the technology platform, allowing for greater functionality and improved capabilities. GreenCast provides turf and ornamentals professionals with a timely and credible resource to enhance their agronomic, business and environmental decision making.

“The newly redesigned GreenCast site offers improved graphics and visual design, a technology upgrade, as well as new and improved mapping decision tools,” said Steve Stansell, marketing manger for Syngenta Professional Products. “The expanded mapping tools nearly double the number of reporting locations, offering T&O professionals more in-depth information, improving their agronomic decision making capabilities, while providing easy access to various pest solutions.”

This unique 30-year-normal disease mapping resource is designed to help turf and ornamental managers:

· Plan for the likelihood of destructive diseases like anthracnose, dollar spot, brown patch or pink snow mold.
· Track disease pressure movement and plan preventive applications.
· View data that shows the predictive averages of turf disease onset in a particular geographic area, using historical data.

Other recent enhancements to the GreenCast Web site include:

· Higher-precision pest forecasting maps that are updated more frequently. 
· Improved navigation and quicker access to the information T&O professionals need.
· Easy to customize and navigate for information important to the golf, lawn and landscape and ornamentals business.