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Fargro News Items .

This is an index of topical articles on a range of mostly technical issues. Click on the link to view.




Date

Description

2012-May MET52.
Ongoing developments with ME52 bioinsecticide, including growers experiences using the product.

2012-May T34.
A new cutting edge biofungicide hits the market for use on Fusarium oxysporum on Dianthus.

2012-May AQ10.
New biopesticide for the control of powdery mildew diseases.

2011-April Serenade ASO Soft Fruit Review (2010 season).
The use of Serenade ASO as part of the overall residue reduction strategy has risen substantially.
See comments on its use on Botrytis control from some of the UK's leading agronomists.

2011-April ULV Techniques and Their Importance in Horticulture.
Why you should be considering investing in ULV for applying Biopesticides.

2011-February Met52 Granular Bioinsecticide.
Met52 Granular Bioinsecticide is available. A biological insecticide for the control if vine weevil larvae in container growing media and open ground. Approved for use on ornamental plant production, blackberry, blueberry, gooseberry, raspberry, redcurrant, strawberry and whitecurrant.

2011-February Prestop.
Prestop biological fungicide is released to the UK market. Prestop is for control of root diseases caused by Pythium, Phytophtora Rhizoctonia and Fusarium and foliar diseases caused by Didymella and Botrytis.

2011-January Rhizopon.
Rhizopon, specialists in root promoting hormones appoints Fargro to distribute their range of products in the UK.

2010-June MENNO Florades.
MENNO Florades, a special disinfectant widely used in European horticulture is released as the first approved plant protection disinfectant in the UK.

2010-February Naturalis-L.
Naturalis-L - a new bio-insecticide is launched for UK growers.

2010-January Compost Tea.
Update and grower comment.

2009-December Borneo.
Grower comment.

2009-December Serenade ASO.
Feedback on Serenade ASO's use on ornamentals, herbs and courgettes against a range of diseases.

2009-November Fargro distributes Melcourt products.
Fargro appointed as distributor for Melcourt's bark and woodfibre mulches and growing media products.

2009 September Serenade ASO.
Review of the first season's performance on soft fruit.

2009-September Fargro's requisite division expands.
Fargro expands requisites distribution into Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Greater London.

2009-May Borneo
Borneo a new acaricide is available with approval for control of spider mites in protected tomatoes and aubergines.

2009-April Mardenkro
Mardenkro products enter the Fargro range.
Products include ReduSol, ReduHeat, ReduClean and GS-4 Horticultural Glasscleaner.

2008-December Serenade ASO
Serenade ASO the first PSD approved biological fungicide for Botrytis makes its soft fruit market entrance.

2008-July Conserve
The insecticide Conserve gains approval for use on tomatoes, aubergines and peppers. These new crops join cucumbers and ornamentals on the product label.

2008-May Switch Extension of product label to include a wide range of named fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops. The range of diseases listed on label now includes: Alternaria spp., Ascochyta, Botrytis (grey mould), Colletotrichum spp., Fusarium spp. Gloeosporium spp., Monilinia spp. Mycosphaerella, Nectria spp., Penicillium spp., Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Stemphylium vesicarium, Venturia spp.

2008-March Switch
Move over to better control of Botrytis. Information on how the two active ingredients fludioxonil and cyprodinil work. Report of use on outdoor lettuce. Reports of effectiveness at Bell Brothers Nurseries on Pot/Bedding. Report of results on Senetti.

2008-February Compost Tea
Compost Tea comes of age. New 1000 litre brewing units. Compost Tea at Evesham Vale Propagators.

2007-August Imidasect 5GR - new product.
A new granular insecticide for incorporation into compost of protected ornamentals for control of sciarid, vine weevil and some foliar pests.

2007-June Subdue
Grower experiences.

2007-June Compost Tea
Fargro/Avoncrop Compost Tea Open Day held at the Avoncroft Museum, Bromsgrove, Worcs.

2007-May Compost Tea - change of ingredients
A short note about change in ingredients of compost tea and revised recommended brewing times.

2007-March

Switch
Switch a new fungicide for control of Botrytis and some other diseases on strawberry, peas and beans.

2007-March Forester
Forester a new insecticide specifically for the control of large pine weevil in forestry.

2007-March Fargro expansion in Essex
Fargro expands requisites distribution in Essex.

2006-October Compost Tea
Chris Bowman Commercial Manager of Notcutt's discusses the merits of using the Compost Tea system.

2006-September Compost Tea - Sharing experiences.
Article extracted from "Plants and Propagators" the newsletter of the International Plant Propagators Society.

2006-July SB Plant Invigorator - The new pesticide / mildewcide / plant stimulant.

2006-April Dazide ENHANCE - Maintaining progress in productivity.

2006-February Contans WG - The new biological fungicide for Sclerotinia disease control.

2005-November Fogging and ULV (Aerosol) - Applications.

2005-September Plymouth University - Outreach.

2005-August Compost Tea
Paul Dyer Technical and Business Development Manager at Star Nurseries discusses benefits of the Compost Tea system.

2005-May Subdue - The new product for Pythium and Phytophthora in ornamentals.

2004-April Conserve - Grower experience.

2004-April Dazide ENHANCE - New product
A new easy to use dust free water soluble granule formulation is now available for growers using daminozide as a growth regulator. Dazide ENHANCE helps growers manage ornamentals' plant growth and development to ensure that plants are compact, strong, better able to cope with transport and able to meet increasingly stringent customer specifications.



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