Chloroneb Information Request
On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Rick Melnicoe wrote:
Dear Jane, Cathy and Al,
Please see the following from Kent Smith and let me know what you can find out about his questions.
Thanks.
Rick
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From: Kent Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:03 AM
To: Ayers, John; Danesha Carley; Herbst, Linda; Tom Holtzer; Jess, Lynnae; Koplinka-Loehr, Carrie; Melnicoe, Rick; Olsen, Larry; Susan Ratcliffe; Toth, Steve; VanKirk, James
Cc: Kunickis, Sheryl; Teung Chin; Coble, Harold
Subject: Pesticide Question - Chloroneb Registration as Fungicide Seed Treatment
Dear IPM Center Directors,
Chloroneb was effectively canceled last year and the tolerances for food uses on beans, sugar beets, cowpeas, and soybeans will be revoked next year. There are a few products registered for use on ornamental turf that are still available but they will be disappearing in the next few years.
The registrant of the old chloroneb products is considering renewing the registration of chloroneb as a fungicide seed treatment on: cotton, beans (soy, snap, bush, garbanzo, etc.), peanuts, sugarbeets, and for certain ornamentals including turf.
Questions:
1) Usefulness. Is a chloroneb seed treatment registration on these crops important to agriculture and worthy of our support? Please give us a yes/no answer for each of the above crops.
2) Alternatives. What are the currently used alternatives to chloroneb on the above crops?
3) Efficacy data. Can you cite or send efficacy data for any of these uses of chloroneb and its alternatives?
Please send responses to me, Sheryl Kunickis (sheryl.kunickis@ars.usda.gov), and Teung Chin (teung.f.chin@usda.gov).
Thank you for consideration of this matter.
Kent
Kent L. Smith, Ph.D.
Plant Pathologist
USDA, ARS, AO
Office of Pest Management Policy
Washington, DC
