| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Continue to educate regulators about interactions of pesticides and
predators |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Educate growers about the benefits of using certified root stock |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Educate growers about the impacts of non-selective synthetic pesticides on
natural predators |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Educate growers about sequential applications of Quadris (azoxystrobin) and
Tilt (propiconazole) to avoid resistance |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Continue to stress importance of disease- free planting material, and using
clean ground |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
Rosette |
Continue to educate growers about equipment sanitation |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Educate growers about risk of moving new weeds into new areas |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Educate registrants on importance of discontinued products and encourage
continued manufacturing |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Weeds |
|
Rosette |
Educate growers concerning label instructions for mint straw treated with
Stinger (clopyralid) |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Educate growers concerning new research developments |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Emphasize the need for pre-plant soil sampling |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Educate regulators on externally imposed restrictions and limitations related
to currently registered pesticides when justifying registrations for new
pesticides (Sec. 18’s and SLN’s) |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Educate registrant about need for spot treatment fumigation for Verticillium
wilt |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Educate growers about using proper crop rotations |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
Rosette |
Disseminate information about new research and new disease management
practices |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Weeds |
|
|
Educate growers on herbicide resistance management |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop and distribute symptom- identification field guides |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
Insects |
|
|
Educate regulators regarding resistance concerns when they are evaluating
new registrations |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
Pathogens |
|
Rosette |
Educate general population on the benefits and safety margin of most
agricultural chemicals. |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
Weeds |
|
|
Educate growers on benefits and need for crop rotation and site selection to
avoid any perennial weeds |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Create list-serve discussions |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Disseminate research results |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Educate growers on cultivar selections |
| Extension/Outreach |
5 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop and disseminate educational materials for growers concerning
cultural and biological control (e.g. site selection, crop histories) |
| Extension/Outreach |
6 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Educate growers about using new techniques with existing control
measures (more conventional pesticides and methodology) |
| Extension/Outreach |
7 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Educate the general public on the benefits and safety margin of most
agricultural chemicals |
| Regulatory |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Register Mocap (ethoprop) |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Expedite registration for Success (spinosad), Actara/Platium (thiamethoxam),
Acramite (bifenazate), and Fujimite (fenpyroximate) |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Obtain full registration for Mocap (ethoprop) in all growing regions |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Maintain availability of Vapam (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) for
fumigation in nurseries |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Register granular formulation of Mocap (ethoprop) for mint root borer and
symphylan control |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
|
Obtain registration of Mocap (ethoprop) |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
Rosette |
Support Mocap (ethoprop) registration |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Reduce PHI to 30 days for Tilt (propiconazole ); currently 90 days |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Maintain registrations of current fumigants |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Maintain fumigant registrations |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Support registration of MCPB for field bindweed suppression |
| Regulatory |
1 |
Weeds |
|
Bed Preparation |
Support registration of Valor (flumioxazin) and Spartan (sulfentrazone) |
| Regulatory |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Register Prowl (pendimethalin) |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Retain seven day REI for Comite (propargite) |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Expand Tilt (propiconazole) label to include all mint growing areas of the
PNW (currently registered only west of the Cascade Mountains in OR and
WA) |
| Regulatory |
2 |
Weeds |
|
|
Obtain Section 3 registration for Prowl (pendimethalin) |
| Regulatory |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Maintain workable REI’s and PHI’s during the risk assessment
processes |
| Regulatory |
3 |
Insects |
|
|
Obtain registration for Acramite (bifenazate), which is needed for the mint tea
market, due to EU restrictions on Comite (propargite) |
| Regulatory |
3 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Obtain registration for spot treatment fumigation with Vapam (sodium
methyldithiocarbamate) for Verticillium wilt |
| Research |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop a long term, interdisciplinary research program that
investigates the critical interactions of pests in the mint crop and
rotational sequences, utilizing a systems approach |
| Research |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Develop economic threshold or action level for wireworms in field
nurseries established from rooted tip cuttings |
| Research |
1 |
Insects |
|
|
Investigate effectiveness of Confirm (tebufenozide) for control of
Lepidopteran insects |
| Research |
1 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Develop a systemic insecticide and other alternatives to (Lorsban)
chlorpyrifos for mint root borer control |
| Research |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
|
Continue to screen nematicides for efficacy |
| Research |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
|
Develop alternative products that are effective on nematodes |
| Research |
1 |
Nematodes |
|
Rosette |
Develop alternatives to Vydate (oxamyl) |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Investigate the relationship of plant stress or vigor to disease occurrence and
severity through interdisciplinary and long term studies. |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop a disease resistant mint cultivar |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
|
Rosette |
Investigate cultivar improvement for disease resistance |
| Research |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop a new pesticide for nutsedge control |
| Research |
1 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop and evaluate an herbicide for control of field bindweed |
| Research |
1 |
Weeds |
|
Bed Preparation |
Investigate timing of tank mix pre-emerge herbicides application |
| Research |
1 |
Weeds |
|
Rosette |
Develop resistance management options |
| Research |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop new pesticides for resistance management |
| Research |
2 |
Insects |
|
|
Investigate control measures for mint stem borer |
| Research |
2 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Develop a control method for mint root borer in furrow- irrigated fields |
| Research |
2 |
Nematodes |
|
|
Investigate the relationship of plant stress or vigor to nematode issues through
interdisciplinary and long term studies. |
| Research |
2 |
Nematodes |
|
|
Investigate bio-types and biology of nematodes |
| Research |
2 |
Nematodes |
|
Rosette |
Develop better control measures for nematodes |
| Research |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Investigate the alternative host for powdery mildew on mint; identify species
and strain of powdery mildew that affects mint |
| Research |
2 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Identify and quantify economically viable rotational crops that will reduce
Verticillium populations |
| Research |
2 |
Weeds |
|
|
Investigate pre-plant efficacy of currently registered herbicides |
| Research |
2 |
Weeds |
|
|
Investigate affect of herbicide on beneficial organisms |
| Research |
2 |
Weeds |
|
Bed Preparation |
Develop new pre-emergence herbicides |
| Research |
2 |
Weeds |
|
Rosette |
Develop residue data to enable feeding of straw to livestock (feeding studies) |
| Research |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop new, more effective, practical and cost effective control
measures for root feeding insects and nematodes |
| Research |
3 |
Insects |
|
|
Develop additional selective insecticides |
| Research |
3 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Investigate use of trap cropping control system for mint stem borer |
| Research |
3 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Investigate mint cultivars for disease resistance |
| Research |
3 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Conduct long-term, large-scale, rotational studies |
| Research |
3 |
Weeds |
|
|
Investigate interaction of herbicides with diseases (plant stress) |
| Research |
3 |
Weeds |
|
Bed Preparation |
Develop data on Starane (fluroxypyr) |
| Research |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Investigate control measures for hard-to-control perennial weeds (e.g.
field bindweed, yellow nutsedge, yellow toadflax) |
| Research |
4 |
Insects |
|
|
Investigate pest interactions and their impact on pest populations |
| Research |
4 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Develop affordable and commercially available parasitic nematodes |
| Research |
4 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Evaluate new fungicides for resistance management |
| Research |
4 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Investigate economics and efficacy of fumigation when mint is a secondary
target (i.e. fumigation of onions, sugarbeets) |
| Research |
4 |
Weeds |
|
|
Investigate herbicide-resistant weed management |
| Research |
5 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Investigate ways to reduce pesticide inputs |
| Research |
5 |
Insects |
|
|
Determine the impact of synthetic chemicals on natural predators |
| Research |
5 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Develop new delivery agent/surfactant/mechanical devices (such as a spoke
wheel injector) to push control products down into the root zone for control of
mint root borer and root weevil larvae |
| Research |
5 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Evaluate efficacy of Bravo (chlorothanonil) |
| Research |
5 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Investigate use of antagonistic fungi for disease control |
| Research |
5 |
Weeds |
|
|
Determine efficacy of herbicide chemigation |
| Research |
6 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop high yielding, disease and pest resistant cultivars |
| Research |
6 |
Insects |
|
|
Investigate the use of mint root borer sex pheromone for mating disruption |
| Research |
6 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Develop an inoculative release program in the fall, so the predator mites are
available in the early spring |
| Research |
6 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop preplant rootstock and rooted-tip fungicide treatment to control soil
diseases |
| Research |
6 |
Weeds |
|
|
Determine efficacy of tank mixes and tank additives |
| Research |
7 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop an assay for Verticillium, which will also distinguish between
the mint strain and other strains of V. dahliae |
| Research |
7 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Continue to investigate symphylan control in Oregon’s Willamette Valley |
| Research |
7 |
Pathogens |
|
|
Develop a reliable, time efficient, in- field Verticillium wilt assay method |
| Research |
7 |
Weeds |
|
|
Develop alternative to Tough (pyridate) for postemergence control of pigweed |
| Research |
8 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop a replacement for Tough (pyridate) |
| Research |
8 |
Insects |
|
Rosette |
Continue research to find alternative to Mocap (ethoprop) |
| Research |
8 |
Weeds |
|
|
Investigate bio-control of perennial weeds |