Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities
and Projects for Cranberry

Table of Contents

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

Registrations Achieved

Crop(s) Active ingredient (Product) Target Pest(s) Sponsor Date
Cranberry tebufenozide (Confirm) Fireworm V. Brookes, BC 2001 
Cranberry mesotrione (Callisto) Vetch & Creeping buttercup BC and NS; AAFC-PMC EMERGENCY USE ONLY; to Dec. 2006 in BC and NS. Full minor use registration granted March 2008
Cranberry spinosad (Success, Entrust) Cranberry fruitworm CETAQ June, 2007
Cranberry diazinon (Diazinon) Dearness scale, tipworm BCMAL August, 2007 (scale), June 2008 (tipworm)
Cranberry spinosad (Success, Entrust) Sparganothis fruitworm, fireworm CETAQ, BCMAL August 2010
Cranberry chlorantraniliprole (Altacor) Fruitworms, fireworm AAFC-PMC, IR-4, BC April 2011
Cranberry methoxyfenozide (Intrepid) Fruitworms, fireworm AAFC-PMC April 2011
Cranberry spinetoram (Delegate) Fruitworm, fireworm, tipworm BC May 2011

 

Priorities for Ontario

Entomology: Cranberry
Target Pest Priority Justifications**
Cranberry fruitworm
1
 6
Tip worm
2
 1
Fireworm, spanworm
3
 6
Sparganothis fruitworm
4
 6


Plant Pathology: Cranberry
Target Pest Priority Justifications**
Phomopsis rot
1
 1
Phytophthora rot
2
 1
Storage rot
3
 1




Weed Priorities: Cranberry
Target Pest Priority Justifications **
Creeping sedge
1
 1
Leatherleaf
2
 1
Bog Rosemary
3
 1
Raspberry
4
 1
Meadowsweet, steeplebush
5
 1

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

For a more detailed version of these tables, consult the provincial minor use coordinator. ADB Staff Directory

** 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 /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 crop tolerances
  7. New crop

Active URMULE Projects

Group 13 H: Cranberry

Target Pest(s): Fruit rot
Active Ingredient: azoxystrobin
Product(s): Quadris
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: V. Brookes followed by AAFC05-040
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2001-0102, followed by 2004-1781
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Residue, processing, decline studies required in 5B & 12 (letter May 2001). To become 2005 AAFC project; Submitted July 16, 2004; DACO issued Nov. 26, 2004; efficacy, residue and environmental data required. Reporting phase 3/08 - 3/12.

Target Pest(s): Grasses
Active Ingredient: clethodim
Product(s): Select, Centurion
Company: Arysta, Bayer
Sponsor: V. Brookes followed by BC
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2002-0193 followed by 2011-2441, 2011-2442
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2002-3579 followed by 2012-0232, 2012-0233
Status: Submitted Jan. 2002; data provided Jan. 03; PMRA response May 20, 2003; additional crop tolerance data required. Re-submitted June 2011. D.3.2 assigned Jan. 12, 2012.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry tipworm
Active Ingredient: spirotetramat
Product(s): Movento
Company:Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC09-050
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): n/a
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2011-6122
Status: Joint with IR-4 (10198); D.3.2 assigned Dec. 23, 2011 for 13-07H.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry & Sparganothis fruitworms
Active Ingredient: flubendiamide replaced by cyantraniliprole
Product(s): Belt replaced by Cyazypyr
Company: Bayer replaced by DuPont
Sponsor: AAFC09-051
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Joint with IR-4 (10199).

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: mesotrione
Product(s): Callisto (rate increase)
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: NB
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2010-3473
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2010-5502
Status: submitted August 2010. D.3.2 assigned Nov. 15, 2010. D.3.2 approval granted July 14, 2011.

Target Pest(s): Cranberry girdler
Active Ingredient: spirotetramat
Product(s): Movento
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC11-021
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2011 project.

Target Pest(s): Fireworm & fruitworm
Active Ingredient: spinosad
Product(s): Entrust (via chemigation)
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: BCMAL
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2010-5865
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted end of November 2010.

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: acetic acid
Product(s): Munger Hort. Vinegar
Company: Munger LD
Sponsor: AAFC-PMC
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2012 biopesticide project.

Target Pest(s): Fruit rots
Active Ingredient: azoxystrobin + difenoconazole
Product(s): Quadris Top
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: AAFC12-019
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1):
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2012 project.

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

 


For more information:
Toll Free: 1-877-424-1300
Local: (519) 826-4047
E-mail: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca
Author: Jim Chaput - Provincial Minor Use Coordinator/OMAFRA
Creation Date: 01 March 2002
Last Reviewed: 31 January 2012