| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Educate government agencies on unfair trade/cultural practices, which result from regulatory
burdens. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Develop training on using Pheromone trapping for monitoring. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Provide training on application technology effective on specific pests. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
R2 |
The California industry needs to communicate to seed providers that
rootknot nematode resistance should be in all varieties. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Educate growers on best management practices since this
impacts post- harvest quality more than any other t |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
R2 |
Educate greenhouse growers and transplant providers on disease
identification and management, especially irrigation management. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Educate growers on use of halosulfuron (Sandea) and pendimethalin (Prowl). |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Weeds |
|
R2 |
Educate growers on conservation tillage and precision cultivation. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Wildlife |
|
|
Provide grower updates on vertebrate pest control options |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Regulators and consumer groups must be educated as to how Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) practices are used in fresh tomatoes and how this system optimizes food production while
it minimizes risks to workers and the environment. This is especially important as it relates to
risk assessments for crop production. |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Provide training on crop free periods for whitefly control. |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Continue to train growers on pest identification and damage. |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
The general public needs to understand how IPM is used in agriculture and how changes
brought about by the FQPA review impacts on the cost of food. The economic side of replacing
low-cost pesticides with newer, but much more expensive, materials needs to be considered in
the review process. |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
Insects |
|
|
Provide training on resistance management programs across
borders (state and federal). |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
With a very diversified crop production system in the state, all growers need to be educated
on the value of a crop free period in terms of reducing future pest infestation levels and related
pesticide applications when overlapping cropping patterns are employed around their fields.
This would focus on area-wide pest management. |
| Extension/Outreach |
5 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Finally, the public should be reminded through effective media (e.g., “Buy California”, “Five
a Day” programs) that the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, particularly fresh
tomatoes, contributes to a nutritious diet and healthy lifestyle. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Harmonization between Cal-EPA and US-EPA should be encouraged to facilitate and hasten
the registration of reduced risk products. It now appears that concurrent registrations of pesticide
labels on a federal and state level have been lost. Budget cuts at the state level at the California
Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) would force a longer waiting period for state
reviews. Any delay in getting the federal pesticide label approved for use in California puts our
growers at a disadvantage when materials get approved first in other states. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Obtain California registrations for the neonicotinoids. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Register plant drenches for use in greenhouse production. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
R2 |
Register Iodomethane for nematode control. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Evaluate the long-term viability of the curly top control program. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Government should provide or conduct post-harvest
residue testing (take this burden off of growers). |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
R2 |
Clarify label language that includes greenhouse, field, and greenhouse plants for
transplant production as to what can or can not be done with a material. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Ease 8-month plant-back restrictions on halosulfuron (Sandea) for tomato
transplants. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Weeds |
|
R2 |
Register pendimethalin (Prowl). |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Wildlife |
|
|
Obtain consistency of issuance of depredation permits. |
| Regulatory |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
New products registered to rotate in an insect pest resistance program with methamidophos
(Monitor) for stink bug control. |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Change Pre-harvest interval (PHI) for Pyriproxyfen (Knack) from 14 days to 7 days with an actually preferred target PHI of 3 days. |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Expedite the registration of Propamicarb hydrochloride (Previcur Flex)
fungicide for use in California. |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Weeds |
|
|
Ease plant-back restrictions on metolachlor (Dual MAGNUM) as well as
restrictions on different rates for soil types (sometimes listed as acetamide).
3) Expedite the registration of pendimethalin (Prowl). |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Wildlife |
|
|
Need to determine status of several formerly used lethal controls. |
| Regulatory |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
New chemistries for late blight and powdery mildew control and overall disease resistance
management. |
| Regulatory |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Clarification of the label of imidacloprid (Admire) for use with greenhouse transplants. |
| Research |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Of paramount importance is the need to find effective alternatives to rotate with
methamidophos (Monitor), a highly efficacious organophosphate insecticide used for stink
bug control. This material, along with other chemicals in this class of chemistry, has
received intense scrutiny and is under threat to be removed or have the label modified as a
crop protection too |
| Research |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Evaluate alternative controls and monitoring techniques for Stink bug. |
| Research |
1 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Evaluate materials for control of whiteflies and other insects with sucking
mouthparts (such as Actara for aphids). |
| Research |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
R2 |
Development of nematode resistant varieties. |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Need to develop safe and effective post harvest chemicals and
techniques with cost analysis. |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop new broad-spectrum fungicides. |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
R2 |
Evaluate Messenger for bacterial speck control in greenhouse and field use and
benzothiadiazole (Blockade), a plant activator fungicide. |
| Research |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop control measures for black and hairy nightshade. |
| Research |
1 |
Weeds |
|
R2 |
Evaluate materials and techniques for bindweed control. |
| Research |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Research is needed on vector biology. Disease management strategies for control of
whiteflies/infectious viruses, thrips/tomato spotted wilt virus, leafhoppers/curly top virus,
aphids/Poly viruses, and tomato psyllid/yellows virus also need to be developed. The
understanding of the basic biology of disease/vector relationships is critical to the industry,
especially for learning how to avoid and reduce losses from viruses. |
| Research |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Develop new controls for Whiteflies (especially greenhouse whiteflies). |
| Research |
2 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Evaluate carbamate alternatives for use in baits (e.g., neonicotinoids). |
| Research |
2 |
Nematodes |
|
R2 |
Evaluate Brassica incorporation and solarization impact on nematode
populations. |
| Research |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Conduct field fungicide trials on late blight with dimethomorph (Acrobat)
and an unregistered combination of materials famoxadone and cymoxanil
(Tanos). |
| Research |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
R2 |
Improve/develop seed assays for pathogen screening. |
| Research |
2 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop control measures for field bindweed. |
| Research |
2 |
Weeds |
|
R2 |
Develop resistant/tolerant varieties to dodder. |
| Research |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Tomato growers are concerned about effective control of soil pests and safer alternatives
need to be developed to rotate with organophosphates and carbamates. |
| Research |
3 |
Insects |
|
|
Study Psyllid biology, monitoring, and control. |
| Research |
3 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Study psyllid biology and control. |
| Research |
3 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Conduct field trials on powdery mildew , evaluate other fungicides and
plant resistance activators. |
| Research |
3 |
Pathogens |
|
R2 |
Evaluate disease resistance development. |
| Research |
3 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop control measures for nutsedge. |
| Research |
3 |
Weeds |
|
R2 |
Develop precision cultivation techniques. |
| Research |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Development of pest resistant tomato varieties needs to be encouraged, advanced, and
incorporated into existing seed development research. Plant breeding research should find and develop new tomato varieties that are resistant to the many plant diseases and insect
pests that are problems for the grower. |
| Research |
4 |
Insects |
|
|
Continue Genomics research program with UC BioStar. |
| Research |
4 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Continue Genomics work on novel peptides for control of phloem feeding insects
with Dr. Brian Federici (UC BioSTAR). |
| Research |
4 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop predictive models based on detection of viral inoculum in weeds
and presence of insect vectors. |
| Research |
4 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop control measures for nutsedge. |
| Research |
5 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Weed control is also a key area to address. Development of new technologies and techniques
to manage field bindweed, nutsedge, and nightshade is needed. |
| Research |
5 |
Insects |
|
|
Develop resistance management programs for all insect pests. |
| Research |
5 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Develop whitefly resistance management program for tomatoes. |
| Research |
5 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Validate late blight and powdery mildew models. |
| Research |
6 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
The work group agreed that a “low input systems approach” to managing all pests of
tomatoes should be a focus in future research programs. |
| Research |
6 |
Insects |
|
|
Evaluate the non-target effects of new compounds. |
| Research |
6 |
Insects |
|
R2 |
Develop insect and virus resistant plant varieties. |
| Research |
6 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop varieties resistant to Verticillium Race II and Fusarium. |
| Research |
7 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Development of safe and cost-effective control of post harvest pathogens needs to be
researched and evaluated. |
| Research |
7 |
Insects |
|
|
Develop insect resistant tomato plants. |
| Research |
7 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop methyl bromide alternatives. |
| Research |
8 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Crop management alternatives such as the use of cover crops and reduced tillage need to be
studied to identify impacts on insect pest management, with emphasis on both field and
regional management. |
| Research |
8 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Evaluate the effect of cover crops on disease. |
| Research |
9 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop virus resistant cultivars |