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From May Spray to Harvest, Execute Powerful Insect and Disease Control

Manage your orchard with insecticide and fungicide options that deliver excellent efficacy, greater efficiency and increased marketable yield potential.

Disease Threats

Phytophthora

Phytophthora
Phytophthora root rot in your citrus and tree nuts infects the tissue of a tree’s feeder roots and can severely limit the uptake of water and nutrients.

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Alternaria Leaf Spot

Blossom blight, Alternaria Leaf Spot and Other Diseases
Blossom blight is one of the most devastating diseases almond trees might encounter. Infections arise in warm, humid climates. Alternaria Leaf Spot is another common spring and summer leaf disease that causes large brown spots on leaves.

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Superior Disease Control for Unrivaled Plant Health

Untreated Almond

Untreated
Preventive applications are the best way to protect your orchards from disease. Once disease is visible in your orchard, it is often too late to prevent excessive damage.

Treated Almond

Healthy Nuts From the Inside Out
Proactive planning and early-season fungicide applications are essential to minimize disease impact and protect yield potential.

Insect Threats

Spider Mites

Mites and Navel Orangeworm
Plan a cost-efficient insecticide program that is good for your yield potential and your wallet.

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Navel Orangeworm

Navel Orangeworm
A primary pest of almonds, navel orangeworm — or NOW — is small but mighty. Almond growers can take steps to protect their crop and harvest high marketable yield potential while fighting this pesky fiend.

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Codling Moth

Codling Moth
Codling Moth can be a year-round nuisance in walnuts. Monitor for this pest in the winter months as they move into tree trunks and debris to overwinter.

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Infected Almond

Don’t Just Control NOW

California tree nuts face differing pest pressures each year, and the ones taking the biggest bite from your yield must take priority. A planned approach is essential to control pests and combat resistance.

  • Status-quo management programs that control a singular pest, like navel orangeworm (NOW), won’t deliver your highest marketable yield potential if your field faces insect pressures on all fronts.
  • Pests like spider mites, peach twig borer, leaffooted plant bug and codling moth can cause significant economic injury to tree nut crops, especially alongside NOW. Using multiple modes of action can decrease insecticide resistance pressure.
  • For higher nut yield potential with better quality, create a plan to manage a broad-spectrum of insect threats.
Healthy Almond

Broad-Spectrum Insect Control, All Season

A customized program approach to season-long insect control ensures high-quality nuts with greater yield potential. You are the expert in your orchard – you know what optimal timing and ideal formulation looks like for the pests in your crop.

  • Insecticide applications perform at their highest efficacy, with the most efficiency, when timed to control the multiple pests your orchard faces.
  • A single pest shouldn’t dictate a pest control program when overlapping pest populations threaten to diminish your harvest.
  • A management plan with flexibility allows you to target insects before they cause costly damage.
  • Deliver more efficiency for fewer rejected nuts and a higher profit potential at harvest with proven insecticides that allow customizable control of pests in almonds, walnuts and pistachios.

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Product Recommendations – Fungicides

Miravis Duo

Miravis® Duo fungicide is a broad-spectrum, preventive treatment for tree nuts. Formulated as a suspension concentrate, this fungicide combines active ingredients ADEPIDYN® technology and difenoconazole for long-lasting disease control, even under high disease pressure and unpredictable weather.

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Orondis

Maintaining tree health helps minimize tree stress, leading to healthier roots and ultimately higher yield potential. Orondis® fungicide offers best-in-class protection against soilborne oomycete diseases, like Phytophthora root rot and other yield-robbing diseases.

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Afla-Guard GR

Afla-Guard® GR is a natural biocontrol agent that significantly reduces aflatoxin contamination levels to help improve marketability of yields. Early, preventive application minimizes contamination in the field for maximum results.

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Product Recommendations - Insecticides

Minecto Pro

With two powerful modes of action, cyantraniliprole and abamectin, Minecto® Pro delivers lasting residual control on navel orangeworm, spider mites, red mites, codling moth and peach twig borer for overlapping control of multiple pest populations.

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Besiege

The combination of chlorantraniliprole (CTPR) and lambda-cyhalothrin (LCY) in Besiege® provides protection against the most difficult lepidopteran, sucking and chewing insect pests with rapid knockdown and long-lasting residual control.

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Proclaim

Emamectin benzoate, the active ingredient in Proclaim®, targets damaging lepidopteran pests like codling moth, peach twig borer, navel orangeworm, and leafrollers. Proclaim insecticide offers a unique mode of action, making it an ideal rotational partner with other insecticides, and is easy on beneficials.

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