Are you a Canadian floriculture grower Planning your IPM program for Spring crops quickly? Then look no additional! Ontario’s new Crop Safety Hub combines pesticide knowledge from a plethora of sources and combines them into one handy location.

Forms of knowledge (for each chemical and microbial pesticides/fungicides) embrace:

• Allowable pesticides by crop kind (e.g. reduce flowers, potted crops, unrooted cuttings)
• Charges, REIs, and most allowable sprays per crop
• Compatibility data with helpful organisms
• Efficacy scores of pest administration merchandise for particular greenhouse pests
• Suggestions for greatest use of merchandise for every pest
• Hyperlink to probably the most present pesticide label

Maintain studying to learn how to entry this new software.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Meals and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) is reworking the way in which crop safety data is offered to higher serve shoppers by way of an on-line digital software known as the Ontario Crop Safety Hub.

The Ontario Crop Safety Hub is now obtainable and prepared so that you can entry the newest crop safety data for horticulture and subject crops: Ontario.ca/CropProtection . The Greenhouse Floriculture module has been stay since Oct 7, 2023.

The Ontario Crop Safety Hub is…

• accessible by way of any system (pill, pc, good cellphone),
• lets you customise and discover data primarily based in your particular enterprise wants, and
• changing PDF and print crop safety publications, which might rapidly turn out to be outdated.

For Greenhouse Floriculture crops, the Ontario Crop Safety Hub reveals fungicides and pesticides that have been in Publication 370 (Information to Greenhouse Floriculture Manufacturing), however is now up-to-date with new registrations, de-registrations, and adjustments to make use of patterns.

To make sure the appliance meets the wants of the agri-food sector and that we perceive how greatest to help customers with the transition to this new digital instrument, OMAFRA shall be conducting person testing alongside the way in which and fascinating producers and stakeholders for suggestions. This is the primary model of the appliance and you will note adjustments to options and content material over time as we proceed to enhance this digital service.

There’s a suggestions kind hyperlink on the prime of the webpage and obtainable right here: Suggestions Type

We shall be offering person tips particular to the greenhouse floriculture module quickly (by way of weblog posts and movies). However in the meanwhile, take a look at the best way to use the appliance for horticulture crops by way of these tutorial movies: ONhortcrops – Youtube .

Different crop modules which might be related to the greenhouse/nursery industries will embrace:

• Greenhouse Greens (Launching mid-2024)
• Nursery and outside ornamentals (Launching date TBD, 2024)

Questions? Contact Sarah Jandricic at sarah.jandricic@ontario.ca or the Agricultural Info Contact Centre by e-mail at ag.information.omafra@ontario.ca or cellphone 1-877-424-1300.