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Apples, Pears and Stone Fruit Protection
There are some 10.3 million bearing apple and pear trees in Australia, making this the country’s largest fruit-growing sector. Stone fruit is also very significant with 8.4 million fruit-bearing trees. These fruit-growing sectors have seen major challenges in recent years. Pests and diseases afflict both sectors, sometimes in plague proportions, but no challenge is more significant than the widespread drought. Iirrigating an orchard is a poor use of resources if pest and disease control is not given the same priority
If you would like more information, click on each product to download manuals and technotes or call this Toll free number : 1800 700 096 and you will be put in contact with a Dow AgroSciences representative who will assist you with your queries.
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Manuals and Technotes
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Pome and Stone Fruit Pocket Guide
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This pocket guide supports growers and
advisors by providing information that will assist in:
• the identification of the key pests and diseases
of apples, pears and stone fruit
• choosing the best products to control these pests and diseases
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Fruit Form Newsletter, 10th Edition, Spring 2012
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In this issue we look at the ways in which growers here and abroad have sought to differentiate themselves with hybrid fruits and pre-bottled pears. We also discuss the pros and cons of opening orchards to the public under a “Pick Your Own” marketing arrangement.
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Insecticides
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Applaud* Insecticide
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For control of longtailed mealybugs in pears.
Other: Controls scales and mealybugs in citrus, grapes and tropical tree crops such as mangoes, custard apples, persimmons etc.
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Delegate* Insecticide
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For control of codling moth, oriental fruit moth, lightbrown apple moth (LBAM) and western flower thrip in pome and stone fruit.
Other: Controls LBAM and grapevine moth in grapes
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Lorsban* 500 EC Insecticide
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For control of San Jose scale (SJS), woolly aphid and wingless grasshopper in apples and pears; and controls SJS and European earwig (as a bait) in stone fruit.
Other: Controls armyworms, LBAM and grapevine moth, leafrollers, scales, mealybugs, and wingless grasshopper in citrus, grapes, kiwifruit, mangoes and avocados.
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Lorsban* 750 WG Insecticide
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For control of lightbrown apple moth (LBAM) and apple dimpling bug in apples and pears. In stonefruit, use to control LBAM and Queensland fruit fly (as a bait).
Other: Controls fruit flies (when used as a bait), LBAM and weevils in avocados, bananas, citrus, kiwifruit and passionfruit.
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Naturalure Fruit Fly Bait Concentrate
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For control of fruit flies (including Queensland fruit fly and Medfly), infesting various tree, fruit, nut, vine and vegetable crops and ornamentals and on fruit fly resting sites, including non-crop vegetation.p>
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Prodigy* Insecticide
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For control of lightbrown apple moth (LBAM), and loopers in apples and pears.
Other: Controls LBAM, leafrollers, and yellow peach moth in avocados, citrus, coffee, custard apples, grapes, kiwifruit. Controls macadamia nut borer and flower caterpillars in longans, lychees and macadamias. Controls heliothis (native budworm and corn earworm) and cluster caterpillar (Spodoptera litura) in tomatoes, capsicums, egg-plants and chillis.
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Herbicides
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Gallery* Herbicide
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For residual pre-emergence control of broadleaf weeds in fruit trees, nut trees, vineyards, kiwifruit and nurseries.
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GoalTender* Herbicide
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Knockdown and/or residual control of broadleaf weeds and some grasses in fruit trees, nut trees, vineyards and tropical tree crops.
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Ripper* 480 Herbicide
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Non-selective post-emergence knockdown herbicide for control of many annual and perennial weeds in apples and pears, vineyards, berry crops, tropical tree crops, olives, kiwifruit, bananas etc.
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Verdict* 520 Herbicide
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Selective post-emergence control of various grasses and Erodium species (storksbill).p>
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Fungicides
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Dithane* Rainshield Neo Tec Fungicide
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Control of apple scab (black spot), pear scab, bitter rot, fly speck, ripe fruit spot, sooty blotch and target spot in apples and pears. In stonefruit, controls brown rot, freckle, rust and shot hole.
Other: A wide range of diseases in citrus, grapes, tropical tree crops, vegetables, pulses and many more.
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Systhane* Fungicide
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Control of black spot (scab) in apples and pears, and powdery mildew in apples.
Other: Controls powdery mildew in strawberries
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