Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Specialty Uses
Greetings!

As we embark on a new year, we want to share the following updates and announcements that were made by the IR-4 Project during the month of December.
Global News
Top Ten Global Crop Protection Needs Identified

The Minor Use Foundation has announced the top ten global priority crop protection needs to focus funding and research on during 2021 and 2022.

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Food Crop Success Story
Expanding Spider Mite Controls for Specialty Crops

Spider mites can be a major pest on specialty crops including tomatoes, cucurbits, and strawberries. They can be a particularly difficult pest to control in southern states that produce food crops year-round.

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Crop Vignette
Crop Vignette: Ferns

Ferns first appear in the fossil record about 360 million years ago in the middle Devonian period, but many of the current families and species did not appear until roughly 145 million years ago.

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Tolerance Successes
Tolerance Success: 2,4-D 2020

Federal Register Date: December 3, 2020

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Tolerance Success: Sethoxydim 2020

Federal Register Date: December 3, 2020

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This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 2020-34383-32455 with substantial cooperation and support from the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, USDA-ARS and USDA-FAS. 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.