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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

Shot Hole

Shot Hole (Spring/Fall)
Diseases like shot hole begin to emerge as we progress through the season and become more common after a wet spring. A May spray can provide additional protection to your crop.

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Alternaria Leaf Spot

Alternaria Leaf Spot (April/May)
Common leaf diseases like Alternaria leaf spot are prevalent in the spring and summer. Know which signs to search for to prevent potential yield loss and defoliation from this disease.

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Brown Rot Blossom Blight

Brown Rot Blossom Blight (Spring)
Blossom blight can kill an entire stem. To get ahead, the first recommended fungicide application should be just before bloom in the pink bud stage.

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Scab

Scab (May/June)
As temperatures heat up, so does disease pressure in almond orchards. Look out for the right symptoms so you can protect your orchards from diseases like scab.

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Phytophthora Root Rot

Phytophthora Root Rot (Spring)
Almond bloom notifies us that it’s time to be on the look-out for harmful diseases like Phytophthora root rot. Here are a few things to look for in spring.

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Hull Rot

Hull Rot (June/July)
Hull rot can negatively impact not only yield and quality but also harvestability and future production potential. Control it with these steps.

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Anthracnose

Anthracnose (March/April)
Early warning signs aid proactive management of diseases, such as anthracnose. Here’s what to look for to maintain orchard health.

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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

Leaffooted Plant Bug

Leaffooted Plant Bug (March-May)
Common late-season insects, like plant bugs, reproduce rapidly during hot summers. Learn how to protect nut quality by controlling these insects.

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Navel Orangeworm

Navel Orangeworm (Late June/July)
Navel orangeworm (NOW) is a primary destructive pest, especially during hullsplit. Learn the key to managing and preventing further infestation of these pests.

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Peach Twig Borer

Peach Twig Borer (May/June)
Detrimental to new growth, peach twig borers are active in almond orchards during fruit development, burrowing into growing shoots and feeding from the inside out. Read more about monitoring for insects in your orchards.

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Spider Mites

Spider Mites (All Season)
Spider mites can reduce vegetative growth and compromise yield. See how a well-timed spray program can significantly reduce the threat to nut quality and yield, especially in orchards that lacked winter sanitation efforts.

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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

Preventive Protection for Your Tree Nuts
Miravis® Duo fungicide is a revolutionary broad-spectrum, preventative 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 stress and unpredictable weather.

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Ridomil Gold SL

Flexible application with unsurpassed protection
Due to hyper-systemic uptake and translocation properties, Ridomil Gold® SL fungicide protects tree nuts from soilborne oomycete diseases like root rot and crown rot. This easy-to-use formulation improves stand, root health and crop vigor.

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Quadris Top

Complementary fungicide control for integrated pest management programs
Quadris Top® fungicide boasts dual active ingredients azoxystrobin and difenoconazole to protect tree nuts from a broad spectrum of foliar diseases. This sturdy fungicide exhibits preventive, systemic and curative activity to offer reliable and robust disease control for tree nuts.

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Product Recommendations - Insecticides

Besiege

Dual-action, broad-spectrum insect control
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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Minecto Pro

A broad-spectrum, foliar insecticide that hits the mark
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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Proclaim

Rapid absorption and excellent flexibility for any operation
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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Continuing Education

Act Now

Act NOW Module

Tree nut growers depend on trusted Pest Control Advisors to help fight back against navel orangeworm (NOW) and maximize their potential yield. The Act NOW learning module guides you through Integrated Pest Management programs for Navel Orangeworm in Tree Nuts. Pest Control Advisors can earn continuing education credits upon successful completion of the quiz.

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