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Mesurol snail and slug bait – trusted performance standing the test of time

April 2, 2026 | 3 min read

For more than 27 years, Australian vegetable and fruit growers have relied on a distinctive blue snail and slug bait to protect some of the nation’s highest value crops.

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Nail your snails with Agribait’s Snailex

April 1, 2026 | 1 min read

Snailex has long been a cost effective and highly efficacious control of damaging mollusc species.

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Slugs ‘weighed in’ to optimise management

April 11, 2025 | 4 min read

Snail & slug control Analysing the life history of the grey field slug and black keeled slug is part of new research to help growers better respond to threats from these pest species.

Market insight - Snail & slug control

Importance of long-term monitoring for slugs

April 10, 2025 | 4 min read

Since 2013, AgNova Technologies Pty Ltd and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) have supported ongoing monthly slug monitoring at three sites in southwest Victoria.

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Precision, power and performance – Slugoff leads the way

March 21, 2025 | 3 min read

Since its launch both in Australia and New Zealand local farmers and their agronomists have continued to be impressed at the superior effectiveness in both broadacre and high value horticulture situations, ensuring Sluggoff is the first choice molluscicide choice in all-weather situations.

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Don’t get slugged on your bottom line

March 20, 2024 | 4 min read

Economics should be one of the factors driving decisions about baiting and other control methods for slugs, seasonal influences and monitoring tools are another.

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Speeding up hunt for snail solution

March 17, 2024 | 5 min read

A recently completed project managed by CSIRO has renewed attempts at establishing parasitic flies in parts of South Australia, aiming to suppress Cochlicella acuta conical (or pointed) snail populations.

Snail & slug control

Get hooked on Axcela!

March 17, 2023 | 2 min read

Were you satisfied with slug and snail control in your precious crops last year?

Snail & slug control

When should I control snails and slugs?

March 16, 2023 | 3 min read

Following a very long, wet spring in 2022 that favoured slug and snail breeding, large numbers of snails were detected in grain samples at harvest.

Snail & slug control

Imtrade leads the way in baiting technology

March 15, 2023 | 3 min read

It’s now been three years since Imtrade released its dual baiting system, Transcend, which combines new molluscicide and insecticide technology.

Snail & slug control

Sluggoff lentils change the baiting landscape

March 13, 2023 | 3 min read

Sluggoff lentil bait is the leading product in Europe for slug and snail control. Since its release on the local market, Australian users have been amazed at the superior effectiveness in horticulture and broadacre situations, making them an emerging favourite here too.

Rural Business News

Mesurol snail and slug bait – trusted performance standing the test of time

Nail your snails with Agribait’s Snailex

Slugs ‘weighed in’ to optimise management

Importance of long-term monitoring for slugs

Precision, power and performance – Slugoff leads the way

Don’t get slugged on your bottom line

Speeding up hunt for snail solution

Get hooked on Axcela!

When should I control snails and slugs?

Imtrade leads the way in baiting technology

Sluggoff lentils change the baiting landscape

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