Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and
Projects for Asparagus

Table of Contents

1. Registrations Achieved
2. Priorities for Ontario
3. Historical & Active URMULE Projects
4. Canadian National Minor Use Priorities
5. Related Links

Priorities for Ontario

Ontario’s minor use priorities are established annually by various services committees and minor use commodity liaison committees.

* Eligibility:

1. URMULE = User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion; product already available in Canada on other commodities
2. URMUR = User Requested Minor Use Registration; product not registered in Canada yet, but available for same use in USA or EU.
3. Other = Is not eligible for either of the above
4. Cat. A = Registrant submission

** Justifications:

1. No pest control product registered to control this pest (insect, disease, weed)
2. New introduced or invasive pest problem
3. Old technology (organophosphate, carbamate, EBDC, etc.) replacement
4. Resistance management tool/ IPM strategy tool
5. Reduced risk, biopesticide, pheromone or GRAS (generally regarded as safe) product
6. Export crop with need for harmonized pest control options and MRLs/tolerances
7. New crop

Historical & Active URMULE Projects

Asparagus: (not assigned a group in RCG)

Asparagus

Target Pest(s): Asparagus beetle
Active Ingredient: spinosad
Product(s): Success/ Entrust
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: AAFC03-099
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-0250
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2008-5026, 2008-5027
Status: Submitted Feb. 2003; DACO issued March 26, 2003: efficacy data required; No trials in 2003. Trials failed in 2004 and 2005. Reporting phase 3/08. D.3.2 assigned Oct. 29, 2008. D.3.2 approval granted July 3, 2009. C.6.3 2009-4162 label approved Oct. 29, 2009.

Asparagus (PH)

Target Pest(s): Asparagus beetle, asparagus aphid
Active Ingredient: cyhalothrin-lambda
Product(s): Matador, Warrior
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: AAFC03-098
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-0681, 2003-0683
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-1713, 2005-1714
Status: DACO issued July 4, 2003; Efficacy data required; AAFC did trials in 2004. Data submitted to PMRA end of July 2005. Registered for aphids only April 2006.

Target Pest(s): Rust, purple spot
Active Ingredient: chlorothalonil
Product(s): Bravo
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: OAGMB
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2004-4089
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-0577
Status: Submitted Dec. 2004; D.3.2 assigned April 22, 2005. Registered April 2006.

Target Pest(s): Purple spot
Active Ingredient: azoxystrobin
Product(s): Quadris
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: OAGMB
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2004-3761
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-0390
Status: Submitted Dec. 2004. D.3.2 assigned March 11, 2005. Registered October 2005.

Asparagus

Target Pest(s): Rust
Active Ingredient: tebuconazole
Product(s): Folicur
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC04-058
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-2028
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted Sept. 2003; 2004 project; DACO issued Jan. 19, 2004; efficacy, crop tolerance and residue data required zones 5, 5B, 11. Deferred to 2005. Reporting phase 3/08.

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: sulfentrazone
Product(s): N/A
Company: FMC
Sponsor: AAFC07-011
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-3740
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2007 project. Submitted end of May 2006. Lab analytical phase 3/08.

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: s-metolachlor
Product(s): Dual Magnum, Dual II Magnum
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-0169
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-3814
Status: Submitted November 2006. D.3.2 assigned May 9, 2007. D.3.2 approval granted March 3, 2008. C.6.3 2008-1435, 2008-1436 labels approved May 1, 2008.

Target Pest(s): Rust, purple spot
Active Ingredient: trifloxystrobin
Product(s): Flint
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-3325
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted April 2007. DACO issued Sept. 27, 2007; efficacy data required.

Canadian National Minor Use Priorities

Visit the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website (Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs) or contact your provincial minor use coordinator.

Related Links

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs
• Ontario Minor Use Program
• Information For Sponsors
• Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and Projects
• Ontario Emergency Use Registrations