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Request For Spray Records

The continued successful area-wide suppression of codling moth requires that growers receive the most reliable information with which to make informed codling moth control decisions on their farm.

This information includes codling moth trap counts in orchards to determine when an action (spray) threshold is reached, and codling moth development to determine proper application timing of control products.  In order for the SIR Program to evaluate the effectiveness and use of the trap count information, Program advisors need information form growers - their insecticide spray records.

A letter is being sent in early December 2011 to growers (via email and/or letter mail) requesting that they provide their 2011 spray records to the SIR program for review by Program advisors.  If complete spray records are not available, just the insecticide products applied, dates applied, rates, target pest, and orchard/block identification would be most welcome.  The information provided will be held in strictest confidence and no growers or properties will ever be identified in any reports generated from the records.

Growers can deliver a copy of their records to any SIR office in Osoyoos, Penticton, Kelowna, or Vernon (addresses to left of this page) or SIR staff can visit their farm to collect the information.

Alternatively the information can be emailed to to the SIR office (sirinfo@oksir).

In order to ensure enough time to properly analyze the records and prepare reports for growers by the next growing season, growers are asked to please provide records by December 16, 2011.

The information collected from the records will be used to:

  1. Improve the effectiveness of recommended action thresholds (how many codling moths signal the possible need for a cover spray);
  2. Help growers maximize the effectiveness of the control products and avoid gaps in coverage through proper spray timing; and
  3. Determine what additional information growers need to improve codling moth control in their orchards.

The SIR Program thanks growers for considering this request and looks forward to receiving this valuable information.

 
 

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