Horticulture URMULE registrations ~January 2025 to date – all crops

Full registrations:

• Altacor Max – Cherries (cherry fruitworm)

• Aprovia Top – Table beet (cercospora) 

• Asperello T34 Biocontrol – Greenhouse berries and small fruits (botrytis, phytophthora) 

• Bassidor – GH berries GH 13-07 (whiteflies, two spotted spider mite)

• Bio-Ceres – Greenhouse caneberries CG 13-07A (aphids, thrips, lygus bugs)

• Biolink – Celeriac; Haskap (weeds) 

• BioTitan – Grapes (spotted lanternfly)

• Botanigard – Greenhouse CG 13-07A caneberries; Greenhouse CG 13-07G low growing berries (aphids, whiteflies, thrips, spider mites)

• Centurion – Rutabaga; Leeks; Green onions (weeds)

• Confine Extra – Greenhouse CG 13-07A (Downy mildew, Phytophthora root rot)

• Coragen Max – CG 3-07A, Bulb onions*; Quinoa** (* - cutworms, leafminers, leek moth, ** - beet webworm, goosefoot groundling moth)

• Cueva – Swiss chard (Cercospora)

• Delegate – Conifer seed orchards*; Cherries** (* - European pine shoot moth; ** - Cherry fruitworm)

• Dipel – Greenhouse CG 13-07A caneberries*; Cranberry** (* - Fruit tree leafroller, European leafroller, obliquebanded leafroller, three-lined leafroller, orange tortrix, light brown apple moth; ** - blackheaded fireworm)

• Command 360 – coriander (weeds)

• Entrust – Currant; Gooseberry (currant fruit fly)

• Fierce – Haskap (weeds) 

• Frontier Max – Dry bulb onions on mineral soil (weeds)

• Foretryx – Greenhouse Caneberries (13-07A) (phytophthora root rot)

• FujiMite – Greenhouse tomato, Greenhouse Pepper, Greenhouse eggplant (broad mite, russet mite)

• Gatten – Strawberry; Apple (powdery mildew)

• Gesagard – Cilantro (weeds)

• Harvanta – Greenhouse Cucumber*; Greenhouse Lettuce** (* - cucumber beetles; ** - cabbage looper, beet armyworm, bertha armyworm)

• Intuity – Sweet Potato (blackrot)

• Kocide 2000-O – Basil (Bacterial Blight)

• Lontrel – Edible Honeysuckle (haskap); Raspberry, Blackberry; Rhodiola (weeds)

• Luna Privilege – Greenhouse strawberries (* - botrytis, powdery mildew)

• Magister – Strawberry, field (Cyclamen mites)

• Mertect – Sweet potato (postharvest) (black rot) 

• Nealta – CG-9 Cucurbits; Greenhouse strawberry; Greenhouse Tomato; Greenhouse Pepper; Greenhouse Cucumber (various mites)

• Oxidate 2.0 - Greenhouse Cucumber; Greenhouse Tomato (powdery mildew)

• Phostrol – Greenhouse CG 13-07A caneberries*; Hops** (* - phytophthora; ** - downy mildew) 

• Prestop WG – Greenhouse CG 13-07 Small fruits and berries (powdery mildew, phytophthora, botrytis,) 

• Purespray Green – Grapes*; Apple**; Cherries*** (*-scale, mealybugs; ** - aphids; ***-mites including European red mites and spider mites)

• Regalia Maxx – Field and Greenhouse grown Herbs (CG 25) and Field Grown Spices (CG 26) (botrytis)

• Rhapsody ASO – Greenhouse grown CG 13-07 (botrytis, downy mildew, powdery mildew, phytopthora)

• Rootshield HC– Greenhouse CG 13-07A (botrytis)

• Rootshield Plus – Greenhouse CG 13-07A (phytophthora)

• Scorpio – Grape (climbing cutworm)

• Sivanto Prime – CG 13-07F small fruits climbing except fuzzy kiwifruit (cottony grape scale, cottony maple scale, European fruit lecanium, grape mealybug)

• Tough – Mint (labelled weeds)

• Up-Cyde –Brassica Head and Stem Vegetables*; Carrots**, Garden beet, Oriental radish (daikon)*** (*- tarnished plant bug; ** - aster leafhopper; *** - crucifer flea beetle)

• Velifer – Greenhouse Caneberries (13-07A), Greenhouse low growing berries (13-07G) (aphids, thrips, whiteflies, twospotted spider mite)

• Xentari – Cucurbits CG-9 (squash vine borer)

Other registrations to date 2025 via registrants 

See submissions posted to PMRA Proposed Registration Decisions and Registration Decision documents. Examples include but not limited to Brevis (a.i. metamitron – ADAMA) or Vismax (a.i. Flg22-Bt Peptide – Elemental Enzymes).

Emergency use registrations 2025 to date – all crops – ONTARIO ONLY

• Allegro – Neopestalotiopsis on field and greenhouse grown strawberries (ON, BC, QC, NB, NS, PEI, NL) – Field Use accepted, Greenhouse use REJECTED*

• Captan – Colletotrichum spp. including C. scovellei on field grown peppers (ON) * 

• Cimegra – Cabbage maggot on Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cabbage (Chinese, napa), Cauliflower (ON, SK, AB, MB, QC, NB, NS, PEI, NL)

• Cimegra – Cabbage maggot on Rutabaga (ON, QC, NS, MB, AB, NL, PEI, NB)

• Command – Weeds in Garden Beets (ON, QC, MB, SK, AB, NL, BC) - REJECTED

• Decco – Sprout inhibition on organic and conventionally produced potatoes destined for US markets (ON, PEI, NB, MB, SK)

• Fullback – Diaporthe leaf blight on hops (ON, QC, PEI)

• Orondis Ultra – Downy Mildew on Quinoa (ON, QC, SK) 

• Palladium – Powdery Mildew on Greenhouse Strawberries (ON, BC, SK, ND)

• Success – Cabbage Maggot on rutabaga (ON, QC, NL, PEI, NS, NB, AB, BC)

* - denotes Ontario led EUR request. 

Abnormal and unprecedented demand has been seen on the Emergency Use Registration program in the last four years both in Ontario, and nationally. PMUCs and industry continue to try to address this demand through the National Priority Setting workshop, provincial URMULE submissions, and registrant submissions with the goal to reduce demand on this program for the 2025 field season. Several new requests are expected in 2026.

2025 AAFC-PMC / IR-4 Program Joint Project Selections 

AAFC-PMC has worked with the IR-4 program to finalize the 2025 joint project details. Joint projects are for 2025 are as follows:

• Greenhouse lettuce – spidoxamat (aphids)*

• Greenhouse strawberry – spidoxamat (aphids)* replaces Neopestalotiopsis project from Spring 2025 – withdrawn due to lack of support for effective solution. Will be reprioritized at later date.

• Greenhouse ornamentals – APWS (Thrips parvispinus)*

• Hops – fluoxapiprolin (downy mildew)*

• Sunflower – topramezone (labelled weeds)*

• Sesame – pyroxasulfone (labelled weeds)*

• Asparagus – broflanilide (asparagus beetle)**

• Apple – 2,4-D choline (labelled weeds)**

* -  denotes joint projects

** - Non-IR-4 project; AAFC-PMC reserve-list priority, elevated to ‘A’ priority in March but not chosen in initial capacity analysis

AAFC-PMC National Priority Setting Workshop Updates:

• Plan to return to an in-person workshop in Gatineau, Quebec from March 24-25, 2026. Invitations to be sent mid to late November to known AAFC-PMC contacts. Contact me if interested in attending.

• Two-day workshop is planned as seen in March 2025. Elevations of ALL ‘B’ priorities across disciplines will take place before moving to ‘A’ priorities across all disciplines.

• Capacity analysis evaluation introduced in the 2022 Priority Setting Workshop will continue.

• Number of projects to be accepted, and capacity for each priority discipline unknown at this time.

• PMC requesting use patterns be provided with potential solutions in advance of workshops – likely to be provided only on lines / solutions expected to be elevated.

• APWS lines are expected to be accepted this year. Discretion and potential projects to be screened are advised.

• New technology day presentations and networking sessions took place November 18-19, 2025.

• Copy of 2025 Workshops report and project selections available upon request.

Active URMULE projects underway 

• Approximately 515 active minor use submissions currently in the system. Many have efficacy, tolerance and residue data requirements. A few have occupational exposure or other data requirements to fulfill. 

• Approximately 14 % of projects are joint with U.S. IR-4 program.

• Approximately 12 % are minor uses for field crops.

• Approximately 29 % are minor uses for field vegetables.

• Approximately 12 % are minor uses for greenhouse vegetables.

• Approximately 23 % are minor uses for fruit crops.

• Approximately 11 % are minor uses for ornamentals 

• Approximately 13 % are minor uses for miscellaneous crops (ginseng, hemp, mushrooms, hops, etc.).

• 60% are minor use projects submitted by AAFC-PMC.

Current and on-going minor use issues: 

• Impact and spread of new invasive species, both known and established (i.e., Spotted Wing Drosophila), and those with the threat of arrival (i.e., Spotted Lanternfly). 

• Increased demand on emergency use registration program; Advocation for three-year terms for agricultural related Emergency Use Registration requests

• Impact of recent product re-evaluation decisions, especially broad-spectrum chemistries (i.e., neonicotinoids, linuron, EBDCs, pyrethroids, chlorpyrifos, etc.). 

• Resistance management issues especially for multiple herbicide group resistance weed species, and resistance to numerous single-site fungicide mode of actions for various pathogens (i.e., FRAC groups 3, 7, 11).

• Policy development in conjunction with PMRA for pesticide use in vertical farming operations

• Pollinator and aquatic habitat protection.

• Lack of effective solutions for difficult-to-control pests (i.e. grubs, stink bugs, Delia spp. etc.).

• Cost of new products and product development and growing pest control product technology gap

• AAFC-PMC project capacity limits and cuts to number of projects selected at the annual National Priority Setting Workshop.