Managing scale and mealybug insects presents unique challenges. Products with contact modes of action must be applied at specific timings in order to reach the most susceptible crawler stages.
Author: IR-4 Generic
SP2700 Crop Safety – 2019
SP2700 is a new insecticide being developed by SePro for the control of diseases on ornamentals such as Alternaria, Cylindrocladium, Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, and Thielaviopsis.
Pulse Growers Partner with IR-4 to Ensure Herbicide Stays Registered
When the use of bentazon on pulse crops was threatened due to outdated residue data, U.S. growers turned to the IR-4 Project to generate new data to ensure they could continue applying the herbicide. Pulses are a group of crops that includes dry peas, chickpeas, lentils and dry beans. Pulses do not include crops that […]
Trifluralin Registration Yields Additional Herbicide for Rosemary
Author – Robin Siktberg For farmers growing rosemary, weed control is a challenge. Rosemary is not a particularly fast-growing crop, and it can be easily overtaken in its early stages by more vigorous weeds. Currently, there is only one herbicide – glyphosate – registered for rosemary. While glyphosate is usually
Week Of Workshops Results 2019
Dear Friends, We are pleased to provide you updates and preliminary results from IR-4’s first Week of Workshops (WOW). The stakeholder research priority setting event occurred September 23-26, 2019 at the Delta Marriott in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Over 225 IR-4 stakeholders and team members participated. The first day included a keynote address from USDA-National Institute […]
Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association Honors Dr. Richard Raid
The Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association presented its Researcher of the Year Award to Dr. Richard Raid, professor of plant pathology at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences’ Everglades Research and Education Center in Belle Glade. The award is given to deserving individuals who have dedicated themselves and their work to […]
Chicory can be grown more easily now with S-metolachlor registration
Author – Katie Chriest If you’ve sipped chicory coffee in New Orleans or savored Belgian endive in New York, you’ve encountered the versatile Cichorium intybus, or chicory. This herbaceous perennial, native to Europe and southwestern Asia, has been used in numerous ways for millennia. Today, chicory’s growing popularity
S-metolochlor Registration Improves Weed Management for Stevia
Author – Katie Chriest If you’ve enjoyed Coke Zero, Lily’s chocolate, or numerous other sugar-free treats available today, you’ve already savored the sweetness of stevia. From yogurt to energy bars to ketchup to even toothpaste, stevia is the nonnutritive sweetener making myriad products more palatable.
Mandipropamid Label Expansion for Phytophthora Brown Rot of Citrus
The United States is the third largest foreign orange exporter to China after South Africa and Egypt. California traditionally ships more fresh citrus to China than any other state. California Citrus Mutual reported that in 2017, the amount of California citrus exported to China totaled 143,058 metric tons. This included nearly 7.9 million cartons of […]
Food Use & IS Project Nominations 2019
Dear Friends, The on-line project nomination process to assist IR-4 and its specialty crop stakeholders prioritize the 2020 IR-4 research plan under the Food Use Program (residue studies and product performance research) and Integrated Solutions (residue mitigation, organic, PPWS or resistance research) is available Aug 29 thru Sept 11, 2019. The process is similar to prior […]