“Nufarm is dedicated to offering more options to farmers of high-value specialty crops,” Brian Rund, customer and brand marketing manager for Nufarm Americas, said in a news release.
Abamex is one of several brands Nufarm has to enhance and protect citrus fruit from HLB. A section 18 emergency exemption was approved for the use of Mycoshield on Florida citrus for the product’s activity against the bacteria that cause HLB.
Already a tool for cotton, potatoes, cucurbit vegetables, leafy vegetables and almonds, the label update extends Abamex’s use to the following specialty crops:
- Grapes and small fruit vine climbing subgroup (except fuzzy kiwifruit) crop subgroup 13-07F
- Fruiting vegetables (except cucurbits) crop group 8-10
- Strawberries, low growing berry subgroup 13-07G
- Onion, green crop group 3-07B
- Stone fruit crop group 12-12
- Citrus fruit crop group 10-10
- Pome fruit crop group 11-10
- Tree nuts crop group 14-12
- Bean, dry and succulent
- Pineapple
- Papaya
- Lychee
- Guava