CHEMICALS UPDATE CORTEVA TO LAUNCH NEW ORGANIC INSECTICIDE TO AUSTRALIAN MARKET Corteva Agriscience is set to launch a new organic insecticide to the Australian market this October. Entrust® Organic Insecticide is a naturally derived product based on metabolites produced by fermentation of a naturally occurring soil organism and received regulatory approval by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) in July 2020.
“The introduction of Entrust® Organic offers organic growers a new resistance management tool for the selective control of some of Australia’s most damaging pests. As with all insecticides it is beholden on users to rotate between different chemical Modes of Action (MoA) in accordance with label directions to prevent the onset of resistance,” he said.
Corteva’s Marketing Manager for Horticulture and Insecticide, Nick Koch, said the product has long been anticipated by the Australian agricultural market, not only for its organic certification, but also for its favourable environmental profile and selectivity to key beneficial insects, making it ideally suited to many Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems.
It is suitable for crops including brassica vegetables, cucurbits, culinary herbs, vegetables (fruiting, leafy, root, tuber, stalk and stem), legumes, avocados, berries, citrus, grapes, pomefruit, stone fruit, and tropical fruit crops. Entrust® Organic will be available in limited supply from October. To register your interest, visit entrust-organic.corteva.com.au or call Corteva Agriscience toll free on 1800 700 096.
“Entrust® Organic belongs to a unique insecticide group known as the ‘Spinosyns’. A group 5 insecticide for resistance management, shared only by two other products, Success® Neo and Delegate® insecticide” Mr Koch said.
LUNA SENSATION (7+11) LABEL EXTENSION NOW REGISTERED FOR PASSIONFRUIT CROP
DISEASE
RATE
WHP
CRITICAL COMMENTS
PASSIONFRUIT
Septoria spot (Septoria passiflorae), brown spot (Alternaria passiflorae)
60 mL/100 L
1 Day
Apply a maximum of 3 applications of Luna Sensation (depending on the water volume required to spray to run-off) that would not exceed a total of 2 litres of Luna Sensation per hectare in a 12 month period. Apply as a high volume spray at a water volume appropriate to the crop stage to ensure good coverage of all foliage, flowers and fruit. Resistance Management Observe industry resistance management guidelines relevant to this use. These guidelines may recommend limits to the number of sprays, constraints regarding consecutive sprays, minimum spray intervals and no-spray periods for all fungicide.
This registration was achieved for the Tropical inedible peel crop group as part of ST16006 Grant funded project. Luna Experience (7+3) will also be registered within the next 12 months (submission pending with APVMA) as we covered both products under the same project activities.
MINOR USE PERMITS NOW SURRENDERED Please be advised that the below permit will be surrendered as the uses are now covered on registered labels as an outcome of the APVMA permit to label project.
PERMIT ID
DESCRIPTION
DATE ISSUED
EXPIRY DATE
PERMIT HOLDER
PER14665
Abamectin / Passionfruit / Passionvine Mite & Two-spotted mite
13-Jul-14
31-Oct-20
PAI
VERSION 3
14
Use now registered on various labels
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