Federal Register Date: February 14, 2020 Active Ingredient: Prohexadione calcium
Category: Food Use
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 […]
Ensuring season-long weed control for asparagus growers
Registration of the herbicide clomazone through the IR-4 Project offers asparagus growers another weed management tool. Even as the consumption of asparagus by US consumers has steadily increased, the amount of domestic production continues to decline. US per capita consumption of asparagus increased from 0.8 pounds in 1980 to nearly 1.6 pounds in 2017. According […]
IR-4 Project helps to expand herbicide options for U.S. and Canadian celery growers
IR-4 Project worked with Agriculture and Agri Food Canada to conduct studies on the herbicide pendimethalin to expand its label to include celery and other minor crops. Celery is a minor crop grown primarily in California and Michigan for fresh market and processed product sales. According to the Ag Marketing Resource Center, in 2017 California […]
Tolerance Success: Fenhexamid 2020
Federal Register Date: January 16, 2020 Active Ingredient: Fenhexamid