The Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has released its update on the use of chlorothalonil in tender fruit. Label changes will occur by May 2020.
- BASF signs agreement to acquire additional seeds and crop protection businesses and assets from Bayer.
- Closer insecticide has received PMRA approval for control of woolly apple aphid.
- Montreal’s local start-up, Motorleaf, will use a $2.85M investment to further develop the company’s machine-learning algorithms and environmental grow sensors that predict the yield of crops for greenhouse vegetable production.
- A University of Vermont researcher is conducting a Swede midge survey.