New Mexico Chile Task Force

Alerts

Nova Section 18 for Powdery Mildew Peppers

There are three PDF attachments
1) Directions for Use
2) Use Requirements Records
3) User records that need to be sent back to NMDA at the end of the season.

If you have any questions, contact Cary Hamilton at:

Cary Hamilton
Pesticide Registration/Endangered Species Specialist
New Mexico Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Pesticide Management
chamilton@nmda.nmsu.edu
(505)646-2133

SpinTor Sect 18 for suppression of thrips on onions

There are three PDF attachments
1) Notice that explains the procedures
2) Label with rates listed
3) User records that need to be sent back to NMDA at the end of the season.

If you have any questions, contact Cary Hamilton at:

Cary Hamilton
Pesticide Registration/Endangered Species Specialist
New Mexico Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Pesticide Management
chamilton@nmda.nmsu.edu
(505)646-2133

Beet Leafhoppers are here!
NMSU Plant Virologist Rebecca Creamer says that beet leafhoppers have arrived. Recent traps have as many as 140 insects, suggesting populations comparable to the 2001 and 2002 seasons.

2005 Leafhopper Data

Producers Should Blast London Rocket Weed to Protect Chile Crop
Rains that saturated southern New Mexico this winter created prime conditions for a deadly plant disease called curly top, that could end up hurting a promising chile crop.

More about London Rocket Weed Threatens Chile Crop

2004 Post-Emergence Seedling Diseases Due to the cool/wet weather we have been experiencing recently, you may want to consider Quadris to help control post-emergence seedling diseases where no fungicide was used at-planting.

For more information about Quadris