Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Specialty Uses
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This monthly email provides information about IR-4 program accomplishments, nnouncements, resources and upcoming events. Below are a collection of the recent successes in the Food and Environmental Horticulture Programs.
News
Food Crop Success Stories & Other New Website Features

You may have noticed some changes recently to the IR-4 website. We're adding new elements including new types of posts to showcase impacts for food program activities and improving the location of content and menu items. Updated Home Page with...

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Week Of Workshops Results 2019

Dear Friends, We are pleased to provide you updates and preliminary results from IR-4's first Week of Workshops (WOW). The stakeholder research priority setting event occurred September 23-26, 2019 at the Delta Marriott in Hunt Valley, Maryland....

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Food Crop Success Stories
Artichokes can now be protected from the Artichoke Plume ...

Whether steamed to succulent perfection or marinated in a delectable oil and herb blend, the globe artichoke adds a singular sensory experience to any meal. This bud, harvested before flowering, is related to the thistles ubiquitous the world...

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Trifluralin Registration Yields Additional Herbicide for ...

For farmers growing rosemary, weed control is a challenge. Rosemary is not a particularly fast-growing crop, and it can be easily overtaken in its early stages by more vigorous weeds. Currently, there is only one herbicide - glyphosate -...

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Blueberry and Caneberry Growers Get New Tool for Fungal...

The registration of a new broad-spectrum fungicide for blueberries and caneberries, such as raspberries and blackberries, is always good news for growers. Adding to the good news is the fact that this new fungicide has a zero-day preharvest...

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Pulse Growers Partner with IR-4 to Ensure Herbicide...

When the use of bentazon on pulse crops was threatened due to outdated residue data, U.S. growers turned to the IR-4 Project to generate new data to ensure they could continue applying the herbicide. Pulses are a group of crops that includes dry...

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Environmental Horticulture Summaries
Fluxapyroxad + Pyraclostrobin Crop Safety - 2019

The IR-4 Project screens new active ingredients for potential deleterious impacts to aid growers in selection of appropriate disease management tools for their crops. From 2014 to 2018, IR-4 completed 78 trials on 34 environmental horticulture...

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SP2700 Crop Safety - 2019

SP2700 is a new insecticide being developed by SePro for the control of diseases on ornamentals such as Alternaria, Cylindrocladium, Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, and Thielaviopsis. The IR-4 Project completed 18 crop safety trials on 10 ornamental...

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Scale and Mealybug Efficacy - 2019

Managing scale and mealybug insects presents unique challenges. Products with contact modes of action must be applied at specific timings in order to reach the most susceptible crawler stages. Products with systemic modes of action may work well...

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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 2017-34383-27100 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.