Insights and Stories on Apples

EU to ban Bayer’s Calypso insecticide

Oct. 22, 2019 at 3:57 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — European Union governments on Tuesday widened the EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides after deciding not to renew their approval for Bayer’s thiacloprid. Farmers will not be allowed to use the neonic insecticide, sold under the brands Calypso and Biscaya, after April 30, 2020, when its current […]

N.S. fruit, maple syrup producers get AgriRecovery

Feb. 1, 2016 at 1:09 am CST

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Health Canada clears Canadian firm’s ‘non-browning’ apples

Mar. 21, 2015 at 4:49 am CDT

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Loblaw’s ugly-duckling produce to get swan moment

Mar. 13, 2015 at 5:14 pm CDT

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U.S. approves first biotech apple that resists browning

Feb. 13, 2015 at 7:54 pm CST

By Carey Gillam

New chemistry launched as fruit mite control

Jan. 13, 2015 at 6:10 pm CST

The first member of the benzoylacetonitrile group of crop insecticides (Group 25) to come to market in North America will be a mite control for fruit crops. BASF Canada announced Tuesday it has picked up registration for Nealta, a 200-gram-per-litre suspension concentrate of cyflumetofen, billed as a control for all […]

By Staff

N.S. backs apple orchard renewal plan

May. 17, 2014 at 3:59 am CDT

Nova Scotia’s government and apple industry will put up seven figures over the next six years to update over 400 acres of the province’s apple orchards with new varieties. The apple sector will put $6.9 million into the program while the provincial ag department will put up a total of […]

By Staff

Insights and Stories on Apples

EU to ban Bayer’s Calypso insecticide

N.S. fruit, maple syrup producers get AgriRecovery

Health Canada clears Canadian firm’s ‘non-browning’ apples

Loblaw’s ugly-duckling produce to get swan moment

U.S. approves first biotech apple that resists browning

New chemistry launched as fruit mite control

N.S. backs apple orchard renewal plan

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