WE ARE All In On Apples
The perfect apple starts long before harvest. ADAMA leverages the world’s largest library of actives to build insect and disease programs and support consistent fruitlet thinning through BREVIS™ 150 SC.
With over 270 active ingredients at work, we give Canadian apple growers a broad, modern set of solutions to manage crop load, protect quality, and bring more top-grade apples to market.
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1. All hail the king fruit.
With BREVIS™, you can thin fruitlets with precision, not guesswork.
BREVIS™ 150 SC, paired with the BreviSmart™ decision support tool, offers you a modern way to manage crop load in apples and pears. BREVIS™ works by creating an effect similar to shading, causing a temporary reduction in carbohydrate production in the tree. This triggers the natural fall of lateral fruit while preserving the dominant king fruit.
BreviSmart™ is a web-based tool that shows you how and when to apply BREVIS™ to maximize your results.
Smarter thinning can pay off at harvest.
Together, BREVIS™ and BreviSmart™ help direct more tree energy into the fruit you want to sell, reducing hand thinning labour and supporting enhanced yield results.
Canadian process trials in Gala orchards showed that blocks treated with BREVIS™ produced larger, more uniform fruit, stronger yields, and better colour compared to untreated programs.
- Determine the best timing for application
- Adjust rates with confidence based on carbohydrate modeling
- Optimize labour and reduce uncertainty
- Optimize yield and marketability
- Improve safety for workers and beneficials
BreviSmart™ also adds local weather, variety, and crop load data, so you know when to spray and how hard to push, instead of relying on guesswork or calendar dates.
Control codling moth and plum curculio with CORMORAN®
CORMORAN® insecticide is your go-to solution in apples for the control of, not only plum curculio and codling moth, but also apple maggot, dogwood borer, European apple sawfly, gypsy moth, Japanese beetle, mullein bug, leafhoppers, lesser appleworm, Oriental fruit moth, tarnished plant bug, and tentiform leafminers.
Figure 1
Codling moth pest profile
When to scout and spray:
Proper timing of insecticide sprays is critical if they are to be effective against codling moth; they should be applied before or just as eggs are hatching. Once the worm has gone into the fruit or nut, it is protected from pesticides.
Identification:
Codling moth adults are about 1/2 to 3/4 inch long with
mottled gray wings that they hold tentlike over their bodies (Figure 1).
Their appearance blends well with most tree bark, making them difficult to detect.
If you are trapping the adults, you can distinguish codling moth from other moths by the dark,
coppery brown band at the tip of their wings.
The larvae are white to light pink ‘‘worms‘‘ with a dark brown head .
They are one of the few caterpillars likely to be found inside pear or apple fruit.
Navel orangeworms also might be found in walnuts, but these can be distinguished from codling moth
larvae by the crescent-shaped markings on the second segment behind the orangeworm head and by the excess webbing
they leave in the nut.
Pest management:
Codling moth can be very difficult to manage, especially if the population has been allowed to
build up over a season or two. It is much easier to keep moth numbers low from the start than to suppress a
well-established population. In trees with low levels, codling moth often can be kept to tolerable levels
by using a combination of non-chemical management methods; however, it is important to begin implementing these
measures early in the season.
Source: University of California, Integrated Pest Management Program
Why include CORMORAN® in an insecticide rotation?
- Rapid knockdown action combined with extended residual control
- Dual modes of action for resistance management
- Control of all damaging stages of target insects including immatures and adults
- Two distinct modes of action providing excellent control
- Excellent rotational product
CORMORAN® controls 15+ different pests in apples including:
Codling moth and oriental fruit moth
With access to over 270 active ingredients worldwide, one of ADAMA's key strengths and priorities are first-to-improve products.
INTRODUCING CAPTAN 480 SC
CAPTAN 480 SC is one of our new first-to-improve products for the 2024 season, where we have taken CAPTAN chemistry and created a new liquid formulation for improved ease of use. ADAMA has been providing Captan to the apple market in Canada for the past decade. We have developed a new liquid formulation for improved ease of use.
CAPTAN 480 SC is an aqueous suspension suitable for dilution in water as a spray for the control of certain fungal diseases of apples.
Apple scab causes more economic damage than any other pest. If there is no sufficient control measure of the disease, the economic losses can increase up to 70% of the production value. It can also affect 100% of the yield if no control measures are applied.
Apple Scab Disease Profile
When to scout:
Start monitoring for lesions about 10-14 days after bud break.
When to spray:
Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, is a serious fungal disease of apple in Ontario infecting foliage, blossoms and fruits. Severely infected trees become defoliated and infected fruit are not marketable. Apple scab also attacks flowering crab apples, mountain ash and firethorn.
Identification:
Spray when the first green tip appears in the spring. This is known as growth stage 1/2 green tip as the leaf buds have swollen and begun to open so that 1/2” of leaf tissue is visible.
Figure 1: Young apple scab lesions appear velvety brown to olive green with indistinct margins
Source: OMAFRA
Figure 2: Older scab lesion on fruit becomes brown corky and scabby
Treat apple scab with FOLPAN® 80 WDG
FOLPAN® 80 WDG controls scap as well as a host of other foliar diseases.
It is a water-dispersible granular fungicide that delivers exceptional protection
against the most common and economically damaging diseases in apples.
FOLPAN® 80 WDG has broad disease spectrum with favourable re-entry and harvest flexibility.
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