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News, events, and happenings in Colquitt County agriculture.

New Labeled Fungicides in 2014:

2 NEW FUNGICIDES :

Merivon– BASF

Bulb Vegetables (Onions) (11 floz/A)

  • Purple Blotch
  • Botrytis neck rot
  • Botrytis leaf blight
  • Downy Mildew

Cucurbit Crops (5.5 floz/A)

  • Powdery Mildew
  • Gummy Stem Blight
  • Alternaria
  • Anthracnose
  • Target Spot

Leafy Vegetables (not brassicas)

Proline– Bayer

Cucurbit Crops (5.7 floz/A)

  • Fusarium Wilt
  • Gummy Stem Blight
  • Powdery Mildew
  • Southern Blight

1 NEW NEMATICIDE:

Nimitz– ADAMA= (formerly MANA)
Non-Fumigant Nematicide

True Nematicde (effective on all nematode species)

Fruiting Veg (Crop Group 8)
Cucurbits (Crop Group 9)

  • Rates 3.5-5.0 pt/Acre One application per crop
    Max 7.0 pt/Planted Acre per year
  • Pre-Plant Incorporate (PPI) Min. 15 GPA
    6-8 in Soil Depth (Tillervator or Field Conditioner)
    Must be applied 7 days pre plant
  • Drip Apply (pre-plant only)

INSECTICIDE LOSSES:

Orthene:

  • Loss of Green Beans (unless grown for seed)
  • Orthene still labeled on Snap beans (DRY); 14d PHI
  • and still labeled on Lima beans (succulent); 7d PHI

Endosulfan (Thionex):

  • Still labeled on following vegetables:
    Peppers, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Sweet corn, Tomatoes, Winter squash (UNTIL July 31, 2015)
  • Vegetable crops grown for seed (UNTIL July 31, 2016)

Please see pdf on Thionex for more details

NEW INSECTICIDES:

Verimark/Exirel (cyantraniliprole)

  • Broadly labeled; whitefly, leps., aphids

Closer (sulfoxaflor; Dow AgroSciences)

  • Broadly labeled; Sucking insects; good on aphids,
    not so good on whiteflies

Nealta (cyflumetofen; BASF)

  • Tomatoes; spider mites (didn’t show great efficacy in GA)

Torac (tolfenpyrad; Nichino)

  • Leafy vegetables, Potato; Broad spectrum (thrips)

Sivanto (NOT YET; Bayer CropScience)

  • Expected broad label; whitefly

 

 

 

 

 

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