Crop Protection 2001: Specialty crops

CROP PROTECTION 2001

Here's a quick review of the fresh products and label changes for the 2001 season in the fruit, citrus, and vegetable markets.

Acadian Seaplants Ltd

Stimplex harvest Biostimulant

Plant growth regulator

Added the following crops: peaches, oranges, pears, blueberries, cane fruit, citrus, stone fruit, avacadoes, tree nut and yams.

AgBioChem Inc.

Galltrol-A diadem Gall Preventive

Fungicide

Control of hairy base and root mat (Agrobacterium rhizogenes) added.

New

Agra search Inc.

Serenade

Biofungicide

Bacillus subtilis

Action: masterys powdery mildews, Botrytis, grape sour putrefaction bacterial spot of tomatoes, and walnut blight in grapes, walnuts, cherries, potatoes, tomatoes, pepper and cucurbits.

Strengths: Can be used alone, in rotation program or IPM program. depressed environmental impact.

Positioning: Registered in all states. Can be tank-mixed with other major fungicides and insecticides.

BASF Agricultural productions

Sovran

Fungicide

Approved in Oct 2000 by the agency of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation for use upon apples, pears, and grapes.

New

Consep Inc.

Checkmate CM-F

Insecticide

Action: directions codling moth in apples, pears, walnuts, and stone fruits.

Strengths: Disrupts the mating proces of the codling miller

Positioning: Registration for use in all states wait fored in April 2001.

New

Checkmate CM-XL 1000

Insecticide

Action: directions codling moth in apples, pears, walnuts, and stone fruits.

Strengths: Disrupts the mating proces of the codling miller

Positioning: Approved in March 2000 for use in all states.

Checkmate DBM-F

Mating disruptant

z-11-hexadecen-1-yl acetate

Action: Provides biorational mastery in cruciferous crops. Strengths: Use as part of IPM program.

Positioning: Registration is awaited in 2001 for all states.

Dow AgroSciences

SpinTor 2SC Naturalyte

Bioinsecticide

Now labeled for use upon tropical fruit. Chemigation instructions added for sweet corn, potatoes, and tuberous vegetables, while label rate for European corn borer dominion government in sweet corn and fruiting vegetables was revised. Target fatal epidemics added to the label, through crop, include: apples - codling miller oriental fruit moth, and thrips; stone fruits and cabbage crops - thrips; and leafy vegetables - diamondback miller imported cabbage worm, and thrips. Peach twig borer, oriental fruit miller and cherry fruit fly were delet in stone fruits. Additions in uses/crops include: cabbage crops -- turnip greens; leafy vegetables -- cilantro, turnip virids and watercress; and legume vegetables -- dried beans and peas, including lupins, lentils, cowpea, chickpea, mungbean, and kidney, lima, navy, pinto, tepary, and adzuki beans, plus blackeyed, crowder field, and pigeon peas.

New

Strongarm

diclosulam

Herbicide

Action: Approved for use upon target weeds in peanuts in three regions. Southeast (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida): Florida beggarweed, tropic croton, bristly starbur, wild poinsettia, cocklebur morningglory, prickly sida, lambsquarters, and velvetleaf; Southwest (Texas, Oklahoma, and of recent origin Mexico): copperleaf, golden crownsbeard, devil's claw, eclipta, shining tickseed, and lambsquarters; and Mid-Atlantic (North Carolina, Virginia): ragweed, eclipta, pigweed, morningglory, cocklebur velvetleaf, and lambsquarters. Use in light to moderate infestations of nutsedge in all three regions.

Strengths: commands a wide spectrum of broadleaf weeds. Has flexible application timing - preplant incorporated (PPI) or preemergence tank-mix flexibility with soil-applied grass herbicides, rotational flexibility with lock opener crops (such as a 10-- month interval to cotton), serviceable crop safety, and fits all tillage practices. Positioning: The first soil-applied broadleaf weed herbicide for peanuts. Provides broadspectrum direction of key weeds, has flexible harvest rotation intervals, and because it is applied PPI or preemergence requires les in-season weed management. ALS inhibitor. An of the first water tank-mix partner with other grass herbicides, especially Sonalan HFP herbicide, for broadspectrum dominion government of both grass and broadleaf weeds.

Tracer Naturalyte

Bioinsecticide

Full registration for cereal grains was received in March 2000 A Section 24(c) Special Local Ne for use upon tobacco in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky North and southerly Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgina was approved in Jan. 2000 Section 18 Crisis Exemptions approved in 2000 include for use upon alfalfa and peanuts in fresh Mexico and Texas.

Drexel Chemical Co

Drexel Diazinon 50W

Insecticide

Use in leek was added in race 2000 to clarify the onion cluster

KOP-Hydroxide

Fungicide

Now approved for use in California.

New

Ecogen Inc.

Cim

Fungicide

cryptococcus infirmo-miniatus

Action: commands Botrytis monolinia, Rhizopus, and Penicillium in pome and stone fruit.

Strengths: For postharvest use.

Positioning: awaited registration in April 2001 in Arizona, California, Florida, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.

Emerald BioAgriculture Corp.

Mycotrol "O"

Bioinsecticide

This organic version of Mycotrol was created with all organically derived formulants. Certified in June 2000 for use in all states reject Hawaii on all field/row, citrus, fruit/nut, stone fruit, vegetable, and greenhouse vegetable harvests by the Organic Materials Review Institute to direction aphids, whiteflies, pepper weevil, and diamondback miller Emerald BioAgriculture Corp. formed by dint of merger of Mycotech and Auxein Corp.