Part article taken from FarmBusiness Magazine.
Novel developments in pest and disease control, substrates, varieties and fertilisers will be on show across the fruit focus event, backed by expert advice to help growers optimise margins while meeting the strict demands of their most discerning customers. The show takes place at East Maling Research, Kent on Wednesday 22nd July and will host over 120 key suppliers to the fruit sector and more than 1,200 visitors from across the UK are expected to attend.
Pest, Disease and Stress Control
Bayer CropScience’s crown rot fungicide Fenomenal (fenamidone +fosetyl-aluminium) has recently been approved for application on strawberries via drip irrigation, which is especially valuable on tabletop and substrate-grown crops that are difficult to drench. The company is also finding new uses for its biological product Serenade ASO. Its key role is in Botrytis IPM programmes, but it is showing very useful activity against powdery mildew in strawberries and the potential to limit the spread of the fire blight in pears, Phomopsis in blackcurrants and various diseases in vines. Bayer also has a range of new biological developments in the pipeline. BASF will be showing a novel solution for coding moth control in apples and pears using two complementary IPM techniques. Small dispensers containing pheromone mating disruptors RAK3 for codling moth and RAK 4 for leaf rollers are placed in orchards at petal fall, before first moth flight, offering season long disruption of egg laying.
Complementing this, the pathogenic nematode product Nemasys C is applied to tree bark when codling moth larvae are exiting fruit and moving into loose bark to pupate. Agrovista is launching its new Fireblight early warning service, the latest edition to its cloud-based pest and disease forecasting service, Growers Choice Interactive (GCI).
The Fire blight software calculates the likelihood of infection on blossom and new growth based on live data collected from 40 fruit specific weather stations across the country, as well as likely bacterial contamination and growth based on temperature and relative humidity/rainfall. This enables preventative or antagonistic sprays to be applied more accurately.
Novel developments in pest and disease control, substrates, varieties and fertilisers will be on show across the fruit focus event, backed by expert advice to help growers optimise margins while meeting the strict demands of their most discerning customers. The show takes place at East Maling Research, Kent on Wednesday 22nd July and will host over 120 key suppliers to the fruit sector and more than 1,200 visitors from across the UK are expected to attend.
Pest, Disease and Stress Control
Bayer CropScience’s crown rot fungicide Fenomenal (fenamidone +fosetyl-aluminium) has recently been approved for application on strawberries via drip irrigation, which is especially valuable on tabletop and substrate-grown crops that are difficult to drench. The company is also finding new uses for its biological product Serenade ASO. Its key role is in Botrytis IPM programmes, but it is showing very useful activity against powdery mildew in strawberries and the potential to limit the spread of the fire blight in pears, Phomopsis in blackcurrants and various diseases in vines. Bayer also has a range of new biological developments in the pipeline. BASF will be showing a novel solution for coding moth control in apples and pears using two complementary IPM techniques. Small dispensers containing pheromone mating disruptors RAK3 for codling moth and RAK 4 for leaf rollers are placed in orchards at petal fall, before first moth flight, offering season long disruption of egg laying.
Complementing this, the pathogenic nematode product Nemasys C is applied to tree bark when codling moth larvae are exiting fruit and moving into loose bark to pupate. Agrovista is launching its new Fireblight early warning service, the latest edition to its cloud-based pest and disease forecasting service, Growers Choice Interactive (GCI).
The Fire blight software calculates the likelihood of infection on blossom and new growth based on live data collected from 40 fruit specific weather stations across the country, as well as likely bacterial contamination and growth based on temperature and relative humidity/rainfall. This enables preventative or antagonistic sprays to be applied more accurately.