CROP PROTECTION 2001 Here's a quick review of the fresh products and label changes for the 2001 season in the fruit.

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 first stomach 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 royalty Gall Preventive

Fungicide

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

New

Agra examination Inc.

Serenade

Biofungicide

Bacillus subtilis

Action: rules powdery mildews, Botrytis, grape sour rust 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. reasonable 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 forward apples, pears, and grapes.

New

Consep Inc.

Checkmate CM-F

Insecticide

Action: directs 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 calculate uponed in April 2001.

New

Checkmate CM-XL 1000

Insecticide

Action: bridles 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 direction in cruciferous crops. Strengths: Use as part of IPM program.

Positioning: Registration is rely uponed in 2001 for all states.

Dow AgroSciences

SpinTor 2SC Naturalyte

Bioinsecticide

Now labeled for use in succession tropical fruit. Chemigation instructions added for sweet corn, potatoes, and tuberous vegetables, while label rate for European corn borer sway in sweet corn and fruiting vegetables was revised. Target infections added to the label, by dint of 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 recent 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: checks 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 guide crops (such as a 10-- month interval to cotton), worthy crop safety, and fits all tillage practices. Positioning: The first soil-applied broadleaf weed herbicide for peanuts. Provides broadspectrum bridle 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 thoroughly good tank-mix partner with other grass herbicides, especially Sonalan HFP herbicide, for broadspectrum rule 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 southern Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgina was approved in Jan. 2000 Section 18 Crisis Exemptions approved in 2000 include for use in succession alfalfa and peanuts in of recent origin Mexico and Texas.

Drexel Chemical Co

Drexel Diazinon 50W

Insecticide

Use in leek was added in generation 2000 to clarify the onion collection

KOP-Hydroxide

Fungicide

Now approved for use in California.

New

Ecogen Inc.

Cim

Fungicide

cryptococcus infirmo-miniatus

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

Strengths: For postharvest use.

Positioning: look fored 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 omit Hawaii on all field/row, citrus, fruit/nut, stone fruit, vegetable, and greenhouse vegetable first stomachs by the Organic Materials Review Institute to command aphids, whiteflies, pepper weevil, and diamondback miller Emerald BioAgriculture Corp. formed by means of merger of Mycotech and Auxein Corp.