fungicide

The Environmental Protection Agency this week released its first-ever comprehensive workplan to address the challenge of protecting endangered species from pesticides. The plan establishes four overall strategies and dozens of actions to adopt protections while providing farmers, public health authorities, and others with access to pesticides ...

The cold temperatures the Pacific Northwest saw to ring in the New Year may help farmers later this growing season. Washington State University’s Dr. Tim Waters says while those frigid temperatures will do little to the insect and disease population, the temps will disrupt where many of those pest like to live; volunteer potatoes. ...

Bayer announced this week the launch of its Testing4Ag program. The program allows research scientists from around the world to submit novel chemistries to Bayer for testing in hopes of identifying potential new modes of action to control fungal diseases, insect pests, or weeds ...

Earlier this spring, Syngenta received EPA approval for their newest seed treatment fungicide to help cereal growers in the Pacific Northwest. David Belles with Syngenta said Trebuset will benefit growers in the fight against Fusarium. “This will be used in combination with our other seed treatments such as Sedaxane, Vibrance,  Varaxatonea and Dividend Extreme.  And a br ...

A recent EPA proposal would streamline the regulation of certain plant-incorporated protectants. The proposal allows biotech crops containing pesticide traits to be exempt from select regulations if they meet certain reporting requirements ...

Agbiome has rolled out a new fungicide that will benefit a variety of growers across the Inland Northwest. Howler works on both organic and conventional crops, such as beans, peas, potatoes and more. Agbiome’s Lori Berger said Howler is a revolutionary fungicide that can be used effectively at every phase of production, from greenhouse to pre-plant through harvest and post-harvest. And ... Read

Based on weather data from November 1st to February 29th, Washington State University is forecasting the stripe rust level to reach the severe epidemic level this growing season for the inland Northwest. Dr. Xianming Chen says he predicts highly susceptible varieties to have 44% to 53% loss this growing season. Th ...

Washington State University is reminding onion growers to be on the lookout for Downy Mildew.  WSU’s Tim Waters said the cool wet spring we’ve seen across the Inland Northwest has allowed the mildew to develop and spread.   “It’s a water mold that’s similar to Late Blight in potatoes, so it doesn’t affect potatoes, but it does affect onions and the spores do move through the air fairly readily.  S

One WSU professor is reaching out to tree fruit growers to help them with fungicide application noting that the best method is using location-specific recommendations.   Dr. Achour Amiri says for many years application choices were made based on the efficacy of the fungicide, assuming that it would be effective against all pathogens.  ...

The Washington State Tree Fruit Association, in partnership with WSU, will be offering a workshop on spray optimization and calibration on Friday, March 11.   WSTFA Communication Manager Tim Kovis says they are able to use WSU researchers who are testing the best practices in applying chemicals, “And cut down on having drift issues and also cutting down on the use of the products and insuring that