Robert Shuh, elected president of the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (FARMS) a year ago, reflects on the 60th anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and what’s ahead for the non-profit organization.
- The Emergency Use Registration is to help manage cabbage maggot in rutabaga grown in eight provinces. Note that each insecticide has a specific time period that’s permitted for use.
- The province is also proposing to expand agricultural production in northern Ontario by streamlining access to Crown land in the Clay Belt region.
- The Pesticides Regulatory Directorate has expanded the label for Serifel biological fungicide.
- The Pesticides Regulatory Directorate has expanded the Pyganic insecticide label to help control various pests such as onion thrips, leafhoppers and climbing cutworms.