Category: Disease Control
USDA touts specialty crops sector investments
USDA Specialty Crop Competitiveness Initiative, Assisting Specialty Crop Exports, specialty crops, Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, MRLs,
Growers invited to participate in drone workshop
UA drone workshop University of Arizona drones irrigation sustainability water use irrigation
Study asks growers about biologicals
Informa Markets’ Farm Progress and Valent BioSciences have signed on as sponsors of benchmarking research focused on the use of agricultural biologicals on specialty crops.
New England high tunnel conference scheduled
high tunnel conference, New England High Tunnel Production Conference University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, University of Maine
Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention includes organics
Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention, North American Strawberry Growers Association, State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association, Maryland State Horticultural Society, New Jersey State Horticultural Society, Virginia State Horticultural Society, Penn State, University of Maryland, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Extension
USDA initiative to improve specialty crops, organic competitiveness
USDA Specialty Crops Competitiveness Initiative U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative
Penn State studies soilborne pathogens in organic vegetable crops
A Penn State plant pathologist has received support from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study plant diseases in organic vegetable operations.
SE Regional growers conference registration opens
Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetable Conference Georgia Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association Georgia Peach Council
Partnership of Corteva, Alveo to develop field disease diagnostics
Corteva Agriscience Alveo Technologies molecular sensing disease diagnostics technology ag chemical seed molecular agricultural disease diagnostic
USDA extends specialty crop grants deadline
USDA Specialty Crop Multi-State Program
Florida Ag Hall of Fame honorees publicized
Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame Gene McAvoy UF Extension John Hoblick Florida Farm Bureau John Schlechter Southwest Florida Research and Education Center honors recognition
Actor promoting soil, regenerative ag
Nick Offerman regenerative ag healthy soil Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC Farm Bill crop insurance cover cropping climate change soil erosion water soil fertility inputs chemicals
BioSafe Systems’ Michael Larose dies
Mike Larose BioSafe Systems obituary ag chemicals sustainability
Elemental Enzymes’ biofungicide registered for multi-crop use
Elemental Enzymes crop nutrition biofungicides sustainability
MSU Organic Farmer Training Program registration opens
MSU Organic Farmer Training Program Michigan State University Department of Horticulture soil health water pests disease
AgXelerators aids inventors of new ag products
AgXelerators AgX ag products inventions crop protection companies sustainability