September 2, 2025

Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Specialty Uses

LATEST NEWS

Join Us This Fall for Priority Setting Events

With both the Food Use Workshop and the Environmental Horticulture Workshop swiftly approaching, our August updates have been focused on event details and deadlines. Find the latest info below. We hope to see you in Denver and/or Kansas City!

EVENT UPDATES

Join Us Next Week for the 2025 Food Use Workshop

The 2025 Food Use Workshop will take place next week, September 9-11, in Denver, Colorado. Research priorities for residue, product performance, and integrated solutions studies for 2026 will be identified during this workshop. A virtual attendance option is available for those unable to travel!

Registration info, hotel booking, and a final agenda are available on the event web page. This page will be updated regularly before and during the event, so we recommend bookmarking it for reference.

We hope to see you in Denver (or virtually) next week!

2025 Environmental Horticulture Workshop: Project Request Submission Deadline Extended to September 15

Registration is open for the 2025 Environmental Horticulture Workshop, which is coming up next month! We look forward to gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 7-8. At this event, stakeholders involved in the Environmental Horticulture Program will collaborate to set national and regional research priorities for the next two-year cycle.

The deadline for submitting Project Clearance Requests to be considered at the Environmental Horticulture Workshop has been extended to September 15.

Please bookmark the event web page. We will update this page continually as the event approaches. Registration, hotel booking info, and a tentative agenda are now available.

We hope to see you in Kansas City next month!

Join Us as a 2025 Event Sponsor

Sponsors make IR-4's events possible and help us deliver on our grower-focused mission. Are you interested in joining IR-4 as an event sponsor for 2025? We welcome your partnership! With events spanning new technology, food crops and ornamental crops, 2025 is an opportune time to join us as a sponsor and reach a variety of specialty crop stakeholders. Please reach out to ir-4_project@ncsu.edu for more information.

RESEARCH UPDATES

Food Crops

The following tolerance success was added to the IR-4 website in August. Find other tolerance successes under Food Crop Successes & Stories.

• Afidopyropen (Federal Register date: July 23, 2025)

Environmental Horticulture

In case you missed it, the Environmental Horticulture (EH) Program has new leadership! Last month, we published a Q&A with our new EH Program Manager, Josh Kindel. Learn about Josh in this story by Raven Baez, and join us Kansas City to meet and collaborate with Josh in person as he facilitates the upcoming Workshop.

— Stay tuned for more in September —

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This work is supported by project award no. 2022-79111-38469, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, with substantial cooperation and support from the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, USDA-ARS and USDA-FAS. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy. In accordance with Federal Law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability.