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Chemical Update
Carzol Approved
on an Emergency
Basis for Canadian
Onion Producers
By Myron Love
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This past summer, Canada’s Pest
Management Regulatory Agency
(PMRA) approved the emergency use of
Carzol SP Miticide-Insecticide for control
of onion thrips on dry bulb onions
in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba and
Alberta even though the pesticide hasn’t
yet received regulatory approval in
Canada or the United States as yet.
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for over
50 years
The product had been approved in
Canada for control of mites and leafhoppers
on apples, pears, peaches and
nectarines
Onion thrips are a major pest of
onions around the world. In Canada,
notes Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food IPM Specialist Jim Chaput,
it is considered the number one pest of
onions in most provinces.
In the U.S., he points out, onion
thrips were ranked as the number one
pest requiring urgent attention due to
lack of effective solutions at the 2005
U.S. IR-4 Food Use workshop. Rapid
resistance development to all available,
registered materials has become widespread
in North America and around the
world.
SP Miticide-Insecticide was identified
as a viable solution to help manage
onion thrips. There have been no new
products registered in Canada for onion
thrips management in several years and
control failures continue to increase.
The emergency use registration of
Carzol SP, he says, will hopefully help
in the interim to manage resistant thrips
populations. “We are not clear how effective
it was over the summer because
we don’t have enough data yet,” he
adds. “Dry bulb onion producers in
Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and
Alberta were allowed to use Carzol until
October 31.”
Her points out that CARZOL SP
Miticide-Insecticide should be used in
an IPM program and in rotation with
other management strategies to adequately
manage resistance.
“Carzol may be allowed on an
emergency usage basis next season,
also,” he says. “Application has been
made for full regulatory approval, but
that will take a year or two.”
Mel Beck
Precision Planters
541-372-3532
www.precisionplanters.com