| Vivando Summer Horticulture
| The risk of powdery mildew in wine grapes and table grapes has been high this season.
| Intake Hi-load Gold - Testimonial
| Despite being a bad year for cereal diseases in Victoria‟s Wimmera Mallee, some of the district‟s cereal growers left their spray rigs in the shed until early spring.
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| suSCon Maxi - Three Great Pieces for News for Spring
| Changes to registration of the sustained-release canegrub control suSCon Maxi now allow its use against southern one-year canegrub for the first time.
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| Grazing Treated Peanut Stubble with Barrack 720 & Barrack Betterstick
| Peanut growers now have the option to graze or make peanut hay from crops that have been treated with the important fungicide chlorothalonil.
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| Researching Products for Winegrapes
| Characteristics of the perfect crop-protection products for winegrapes include being highly effective; having short withholding and re-entry periods; safety for both the user and the environment; IPM friendliness; ease of application; and no negative impact on fermentation or the sensory characteristics of wine.
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| List of all Horticulture Permits as at 1 Sep 11.
| List of all the current minor use permits that have been issued to all horticultural crops and individual crop groups.
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| Vivando Overview
| This season, Australian winegrape growers have a totally new fungicide group to tackle powdery mildew and safeguard their crop’s full yield and quality potential.
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| Vivando - Time to Protect Cucurbits as Season Warms
| With an unusually cool start to this year’s main northern cucurbit season – which runs from early March through to October/November – crop growth has been slow and disease pressure not as high as last year.
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| suSCon Maxi - 2011 Spring Planting, Grub Control, and Application Equipment
| Canegrowers planning to use suSCon Maxi in their 2011 springplanted cane have been requesting information about suitable application equipment.
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| Spring Horticulture & Viticulture
| For spring 2011, Crop Care continues its delivery of innovative solutions for Australia’s important horticulture and viticulture sector.
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| Dealing with Downy Mildew
| High of rainfall throughout the 2010/2011 growing season caused a sustained and devastating downy mildew outbreak in many Australian vineyards.
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| Spotlight Plus - One Product for Both Desuckering and Orchard Weed Control
| Growers of tree fruit in Australia now have a registered product for chemically removing suckers, to replace the costly and time-consuming practice of hand removal with secateurs.
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| Introducing New Staff at Crop Care
| Crop Care Australasia has strategically positioned three new technical sales representatives – Andrew Ryan, Angus Wilson and Jason Wheaton – to strengthen the company’s technical backup and customer service to regional dealers and farmers.
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| Fungicide-Resistant Powdery Mildew In Australian Vines
| A 2010 project commissioned by the Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation identified powdery mildew as the industry’s number one economic pest – with a national impact of $76 million annually – and ranked the disease as the highest research and development priority.
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| Advice for 2011 Winter Broadacre Crops
| This autumn, broadacre croppers need look no further than Crop Care Australasia’s suite of quality post-emergent herbicides for fast, effective and early control of important grass and broadleaf weeds.
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| Managing Glyphosate-Resistant Annual Ryegrass in Vineyards
| Disappointing vineyard weed control is a major concern for many wine-grape growers, and is linked to a growing incidence of glyphosate resistance – especially in annual ryegrass.
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| Supernova – Protecting the 2011 Horti Crop
| Fruit and vegetable growers in the Australian tropics are experiencing seasonal conditions that favour the development of a range of important fungal diseases.
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| Introducing Rob Walker - Business Manager for Clearfield, Seed Treatments, Rice & Pasture
| With a background in broadacre agronomy, agribusiness management and seed coating business management, Rob Walker’s experience equips him well for his new portfolio as business manager for Clearfield, seed treatments, rice and pasture with Crop Care Australasia.
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| Arrow Plus Seed Treatment - Targets Aphids and Fungal Pests
| Barley growers have access to a new seed treatment to protect their 2011 crop from important fungal diseases, as well as from aphid damage in the crop’s early life, and from the spread of barley yellow dwarf virus.
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| Vivando – A Novel Approach to Powdery Mildew
| Australain cucurbit growers have an important new tool to include in their 2011 powdery mildew spray programs.
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| Introducing Jarrad Norrish
| Drawn back to agriculture and to dealing with rural customers, Jarrad
Norrish has taken up the position of Crop Care technical sales representative
for West Australia’s northern cropping region.
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| New Fungicide Technology for Sustainable
Crop Management
| Promoting sustainable disease-management practices in cucurbit crops is an important goal of research being undertaken at Ayr Research Station in Australia’s Burdekin cropping region.
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| Sunscreen Continues to Protect Australian
Apples
| Trials in Goulburn Valley and West Gippsland apple orchards last summer confirmed the effectiveness of a liquid sunscreen for maximising the output of marketable apples.
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| Good News for Southern Cucurbit Growers
| For Australia’s southern cucurbit producers just getting underway with this growing season, there is good news from their northern colleagues.
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| Reducing the Summer Fallow Workload
| The summer fallow can be a very busy time for grain producers in the northern cropping region of southern Queensland and northern NSW.
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| Grazing Treated Peanut Stubble
| Peanut growers will soon have the option to graze or make peanut hay from crops that have been treated with the important fungicide chlorothalonil.
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| Sunscreen Approved as Input for Organic Production
| Organic fruit and vegetable growers can now protect many of their valuable crops from sun damage with a liquid calcium carbonate sunscreen.
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| Introducing Adrian Reck
| Adrian Reck joined Crop Care as the Northern Region
Sales Manager this year, to oversee all aspects of the company’s
sales north from Wagga in New South Wales, and throughout
Queensland and the Northern Territory.
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