Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Minor Use Label Expansion

KOCIDE FUNGICIDE FOR SUPPRESSION OF SEED-BORNE BACTERIAL DISEASES ON DRY EDIBLE BEANS AND SUCCULENT BEANS


The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion for Kocide ® 2000 Fungicide for suppression of seed-borne bacterial diseases including Common Blight, Halo Blight and Bacterial Brown Spot on Dry Edible Beans and Succulent Beans in Canada.

Kocide 2000, a relatively new product in Canada, was already labelled for management of halo and common blights by foliar sprays on beans, bacterial spot on peppers and greenhouse seedlings for transplants, for early and late blights on potatoes and for early blight, septoria leaf spot on tomatoes and bacterial spot on greenhouse seedlings for transplant productions. This is the 1st minor use registration of Kocide 2000 on a crop grown in Canada.

This registration will provide bean growers with a much needed fungal management tool to help manage one of their most challenging fungal problems. Seed transmitted bacterial diseases have been a minor use priority for bean producers for many years in Canada.

In 2004 this minor use project was initiated by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pest Management Centre (AAFC-PMC) Minor Use Pesticide Program.

This label expansion, achieved through the User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion (URMULE) process of PMRA, was sponsored by AAFC-PMC in response to minor use priorities established by bean producers, processors, extension personnel and researchers in Canada.

The sponsors wish to thank the personnel of DuPont Canada for their support of this registration.

For copies of the new minor use label contact:
Nadine Lavigne, Pest Management Centre.
Email: nadine.lavigne@agr.gc.ca Telephone: 613-759-6176

Or the registrant DuPont Canada
Telephone:1-(800) 387-2122
Website: http://www2.dupont.com/Agriculture/en_CA/

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Pest Management Updates

The Pest Management Centre at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has new information available on its website. Visit the PMC Website or click on the hyperlinks below for the latest pest management information.

The Pesticide Risk Reduction Strategies section has been expanded and updated. There is general information on strategies and selecting priorities, as well as strategy documents detailing progress for the following specific issues:

Apple Scab
Chickpea Ascochyta Blight
Grasshopper

A number of factsheets are available under the Document and Publications Archive > factsheets section:

Pest Management Centre Progress in ….(6 factsheets hyperlinked mid page)

Carrot foliage trimmer
Biopesticides for fireblight

Under Crop Profiles > the Cranberry crop profile has been published and can be viewed on-line.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Minor Use Label Expansion

PRISTINE FUNGICIDE FOR SUPPRESSION OF POWDERY MILDEW AND GUMMYSTEM BLIGHT ON GREENHOUSE CUCUMBER AND THE SUPPRESSION OF POWDERY MILDEW ON GOOSEBERRY AND CURRANT

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion for PristineTM WG Fungicide for suppression of Powdery Mildew and Gummy Stem Blight on Greenhouse Cucumber and the Suppression of Powdery Mildew on Gooseberry and Currant in Canada.

Pristine, a relatively new product in Canada, was already labelled for management of berry group, bulb vegetable group, GH tomatoes, carrots, stone fruits group and strawberry. This is the 3rd minor use registration of Pristine WG Fungicide on a crop grown in Canada.

This registration will provide greenhouse and berry growers with a much needed fungal management tool to help manage one of their most challenging fungal problems. Cucumber powder mildew and gummy stem blight are recurrent problems each year and damage can be substantial and in severe cases a total loss. Powdery mildew on currant and gooseberry is an important issue mainly on susceptible cultivars of red currant.

In 2003 for GH cucumbers and 2005 for gooseberry and currant these minor use projects were initiated by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pest Management Centre (AAFC-PMC) Minor Use Pesticide Program.

This label expansion, achieved through the User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion (URMULE) process of PMRA, was sponsored by AAFC-PMC in response to minor use priorities established by greenhouse and berry producers, processors, extension personnel and researchers in Canada.

The sponsors wish to thank the personnel of BASF for their support of this registration.

For copies of the new minor use label contact:
Nadine Lavigne, Pest Management Centre.
Email: nadine.lavigne@agr.gc.ca Telephone: 613-759-6176

Or the registrant BASF Canada
Telephone: 1-877-371-2273
Website: www.agsolutions.ca

Monday, May 4, 2009

Terminator Gene

Bill to Ban Terminator Seeds Re-introduced:

Terminator Technology genetically engineers plants to produce sterile seeds at harvest. To ask the Prime Minister to support Bill C-53 "Terminator Seed Ban Act" and to find out more about how you can take action, visit this site:
http://www.cban.ca/terminatoraction.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Sweet Corn & Seed Corn

MINOR USE LABEL EXPANSION

IMPACT HERBICIDE FOR THE CONTROL OF LABELLED WEEDS ON SWEET CORN AND SEED CORN


The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) recently announced the approval of a minor use label expansion for IMPACT Herbicide (topramezone) for the control of labelled weeds on sweet corn and seed corn in Canada.

IMPACT Herbicide is a Group 27 Herbicide, which contains 336 g/L of the active ingredient “topramezone” in a suspension formulation. It is a systemic post-emergence herbicide for selective control of grasses and broadleaf weeds. It was already registered in Canada (Pest Control Product Reg. No. 28141) for the control of common lamb’s quarter, lady’s thumb, common ragweed, eastern black nightshade, wild mustard, redroot pigweed and green pigweed, and suppression of grass weeds such as green foxtail, yellow foxtail, barnyard grass and large crabgrass in field corn (including both conventional and herbicide tolerant varieties).

IMPACT Herbicide must be used as a broadcast ground treatment in tank mix with atrazine (37 mL Impact + 1.04 L Aatrex 480/ha) with Assist (1.25% v/v) +UAN (1.25% v/v). It is recommended to apply IMPACT Herbicide when the corn is at the 1 to 7 leaf stage, broadleaf weeds are at the 1 to 8 leaf stage and grass weeds are at the 1 to 4 leaf stage. Please see the label for details of use pattern.

This label expansion will provide corn growers with a much needed weed management tool to help manage one of their most challenging problems of controlling both broad leaf and certain grass weeds in corn fields for many years in Canada.

This minor use project was initiated by the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pest Management Centre (AAFC-PMC) Minor Use Pesticide Program in 2007. Original data generation came in part from the Pest Management Centre’s Minor Use Research Program. This label expansion, achieved through the User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion (URMULE) process of PMRA, which was sponsored by AAFC-PMC in response to minor use priorities established by corn producers, processors, extension personnel and researchers in Canada.

The sponsors wish to thank the personnel of Amvac Chemical Corporation (Registrant) and BASF Canada Inc. (Distributor) for their support of this registration.

For copies of the new minor use label contact:
Kalidas Subedi at the Pest Management Centre
Email: kalidas.subedi@agr.gc.ca
Telephone: 613-759-5536

Or the registrant BASF Canada
Telephone: 1-877-371-2273
Website: www.agsolutions.ca

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