Author – Katie Chriest From Scarborough Fairgoers to Belfast balladeers, herbs have earned the love of lyricists as well as culinary artists for years. Their good looks and great flavors inspire all sorts of creative expression, and they’ve even enjoyed a resurgence in products promising to promote health. No wonder, then, that they’re so widely […]
Category: Food Use
Tolerance Success: Flutianil 2019
Federal Register Date: December 20, 2019 Active Ingredient: Flutianil
IR-4 Project supports growers with additional control tools for onion thrips
Chances are if you grow green onions or bulb onions you’ve had to deal with thrips some time during the production cycle. Onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) can be a pest anywhere onions are grown. “They tend to be a bigger problem in hotter, drier climates,” said Tim Waters, professor and regional vegetable specialist at Washington […]
Tolerance Success: Fenpyroximate 2019
Federal Register Date: December 5, 2019 Active Ingredient: Fenpyroximate
Tolerance Success: Propamocarb 2019
Federal Register Date: December 5, 2019 Active Ingredient: Propamocarb
Tolerance Success: Etoxazole 2019
Federal Register Date: December 5, 2019 Active Ingredient: Etoxazole
Insect Growth Regulator Now Registered for Fig Scale Control
Author – Robin Siktberg While the US isn’t a major producer of figs, ranking eighth in world production, it does produce an average of 47 tons per year. Most figs in the US are grown in Central California, where the climate matches the arid, Mediterranean-like conditions figs need to thrive. Since figs are not a […]
Cherry Growers Now have a new Option for Managing Leafrollers and Spotted Wing Drosophila – Emamectin Benzoate
By now, the legend of young George Washington confessing that he’d chopped down a prized cherry tree is widely accepted as myth. Nonetheless, cherries remain a cherished part of our country’s heritage. From u-pick orchards to cherry festivals, these delightful red orbs are beloved symbols of summer. Despite this popularity, life isn’t always “just a […]
Tolerance Success: Tebuconazole 2019
Federal Register Date: November 12, 2019 Active Ingredient: Tebuconazole
Avocado growers and IR-4 look to lock-down laurel wilt
Florida and California avocado growers support the research conducted by the IR-4 Project to identify controls that can slow down the spread of the devastating laurel wilt disease. At this year’s World Avocado Congress, Dr. Timothy Spaan, who is research program director at the California Avocado Commission, reported that consumption of avocados among Americans has […]