Catching Up on Altacor

Catching Up on Altacor

Catching Up on Altacor. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

We are coming off a fantastic fruit year in the Pacific Northwest and it may very well be in part to a fairly new product from DuPont. Dan Sherrod with DuPont Crop Protection.

SHERROD: Altacor which is a relatively new product from DuPont Crop Protection is labeled on tree fruit, nut and vine crops across the U.S. Basically it’s an excellent insecticide. We had a partial year of commercialization in 2008 and then a full year in 2009 and the results have been just excellent.

Altacor has been very successful especially in apples for codling moth and oblique-banded leaf roller.

SHERROD: In talking to our portfolio manager for the product I think we did very well in terms of getting adoption by the growers particularly in Washington and Oregon and from everything that we’ve heard they’ve been very pleased with the performance of Altacor in tree fruit and particularly in apple.

Sherrod says that Altacor is a great way to shake things up in the orchard to eliminate pests.

SHERROD: What Altacor brings to the table is a new mode of action and so now the apple growers have a wide profile or array of compounds that they can rotate modes of action and thereby help reduce the development of resistance on some of these key insects, particularly codling moth.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.

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