Helping grow the country
Spraying
Controlling pests and diseases, while meeting export or local market requirements, can be a complex business. Fruitfed Supplies can provide the advice and spray products you need for plant nutrition, pests and diseases, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, growth regulators, surfactants, adjuvants and the necessary spray equipment for horticultural and viticultural crops.
Spraying for plant nutrition
Fertilisers and plant growth stimulants can be applied as liquid foliar sprays. Talk to your local Fruitfed Supplies representative about YaraVita Foliars; formulated from consistently high quality nutrient compounds with co-formulates, such as wetters, stickers and absorption aids, to control and enhance performance.
Fungicides
Does your fruit or vegetable crop have a fungal or bacterial disease? Do you need a contact or systemic spray? A contact fungicide kills fungi when sprayed on its surface; a systemic fungicide has to be absorbed by the plant.
The team at Fruitfed Supplies can help you identify the correct fungicide to use for safe and effective control. Our Fruitfed Supplies field and customer services representatives receive on-going training regarding responsible product use and market guidelines. You should also check product use with your exporter, where applicable.
Insecticides
An insecticide is a pesticide used against insects in all developmental forms, and includes ovicides and larvicides used against the eggs and larvae of insects respectively. Systemic insecticides are taken up by treated plants and insects ingest the product while feeding on the plants. Contact insecticides are toxic to insects brought into direct contact. Efficacy is often related to the quality of pesticide application.
Worldwide, manufacturers of crop protection products are working to develop ever-more targeted insecticides, thus reducing the likelihood of the product adversely affecting creatures other than the targeted pest insect. Fruitfed Supplies is frequently involved in the pre-launch trial work for these products through our Technical Services team.
Herbicides
Selective vs. non-selective, pre-emergent vs. post-emergent, and systemic vs. contact – the variety of herbicides on the market is extensive. Then, if you take into account the ways in which specific herbicides can be combined to control unwanted grasses, volunteer onions, broadleaf weeds, mallows, thistles, buttercups, etc., you probably need to talk to the team at Fruitfed Supplies.
Our field and customer services representatives receive ongoing training regarding safe and effective use and storage of herbicides. We recommend you also check product use with your exporter, where applicable.
Growth Regulators
Plant growth regulators (also known as growth regulators or plant hormones) are chemicals used to alter the growth of a plant or plant part. Hormones are substances naturally produced by plants, substances that control normal plant functions, such as root growth, fruit set and drop, growth and other development processes. They don't include substances intended as plant nutrients, trace elements, nutritional chemicals, plant inoculants, or soil amendments.
This is an ever-evolving sector, so keep in touch with your local field representative for growth regulators which may have a purpose in your crop.
Surfactants, Adjuvants and other products
- Armobreak, which improves the uptake of nitrogen at late dormancy in apples to induce even budbreak
- Bond-Xtra, an organosilicone super-spreader, deposition/retention agent to enhance the spreading and foliage deposition and retention of fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators and nutrients.
- Latron B-1956 surfactant, a general purpose wetting agent especially for use in horticulture.
An extensive range of adjuvants are available. Your Fruitfed Supplies representative can help you select the best product for your purpose.