Resistant varieties and additional fungicides can assist growers in protecting their basil crops from downy mildew infection. Whether basil is grown in controlled environment structures or outdoors, downy mildew can be a destructive disease of this crop. “For organic basil crops, downy mildew can be quite devastating and usually results in total crop loss that […]
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Tolerance Success: Cyazofamid 2020
Federal Register Date: March 18, 2020 Active Ingredient: Cyazofamid
Tolerance Success: Penoxsulam 2020
Federal Register Date: March 9, 2020 Active Ingredient: Penoxsulam
Tolerance Success: Prohexadione Calcium 2020
Federal Register Date: February 14, 2020 Active Ingredient: Prohexadione calcium
Tolerance Success: Cyantraniliprole 2020
Federal Register Date: February 14, 2020 Active Ingredient: Cyantraniliprole
Tolerance Success: Chlorfenapyr 2020
Federal Register Date: February 14, 2020 Active Ingredient: Chlorfenapyr
Tolerance Success: Acetamiprid 2020
Federal Register Date: February 14, 2020 Active Ingredient: Acetamiprid
Safflower is an important rotational crop for control of Lygus bugs
IR-4 Project realized the importance of registering flonicamid for use on safflower to control lygus bugs to prevent damage to other major high value crops. When Beau Howard, a safflower grower and agronomist in California, submitted the project clearance request through IR-4 Project for flonicamid to control lygus bugs (Lygus hersperus) on safflower, he knew […]
IR-4 Project helps to expand disease control options for wasabi growers
It all started about 30 years ago. A sushi-loving woman in the Vancouver area wondered if wasabi could be grown locally. Fortunately, she asked the right person: Brian Oates, who is now president and chief science officer of Pacific Coast Wasabi (PCW). The answer? Yes. But not in the ways used in Japan, which are […]
Hops Growers Gain New Herbicide to Aid Powdery Mildew Control
Author – Robin Siktberg, Custom Content Editor, Meister Media Worldwide Hops growers will welcome the news that they have another option for control of broadleaf weeds and basal suckers. With the removal of paraquat from use in hops production due to residue detection above permitted levels, a new herbicide registered for use on hops is […]