Hop growers welcome another tool for disease control. 

Due to the pandemic, Ontario’s environment ministry has extended pesticide safety certificates until December 31, 2021.  

Potato growers in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta are asked to send samples of Colorado potato beetle to a government entomologist to test for tolerance levels to selected registered insecticides.

The Pest Management Regulatory agency has approved a minor use label expansion for Entrust insecticide to suppress blueberry maggot on highbush and lowbush blueberries in Canada. 

Cleanfarms reports that the 2020 recycling rate for crop protection ag-plastic jugs was 76 per cent compared to 71 per cent the previous year. 

With the 2021 cycle coming to a close, Syngenta Canada has created Seed and Crop Protection business units within the company effective June 1, 2021.

The Pest Management Centre has announced the new integrated pest management priority project. It’s from the entomology discipline looking at root maggots in Brassica vegetables. 

The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has released full details of its re-evaluation decision on imidacloprid.

Bayer has received maximum residue limits (MRLs) approval in the United States for its Vayego insecticide. These MRLs are harmonized with those in Canada, allowing for seamless export of crops such as potatoes.