| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Disseminate most current pest management information. |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Keep growers up to date on management programs including new chemistry, alternatives, and related technology. |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Maintain up-to-date, grower-friendly field and pest management guides on paper and on the web. May want to maintain guides with basic pictures and information that have a long shelf life. Out-of-print guides need to be reprinted with some new information. |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Adopt grower-friendly technology to ensure timely and efficient transfer of pest management information to growers. |
| Extension/Outreach |
5 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Provide publications and tools for growers. |
| Extension/Outreach |
6 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop topic-specific one- to two-page fact sheets. |
| Extension/Outreach |
7 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Continue to retain viable methyl bromide use under CUE. |
| Extension/Outreach |
8 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop pesticide resistance management education programs to control insects, diseases, and weeds. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Continue to retain viable methyl bromide use under CUE. |
| Regulatory |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Make EPA aware that VIF-type plastics may be a viable solution to methyl bromide problem by reducing methyl bromide rates while retaining material. |
| Regulatory |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Need viable materials that are effective, yet acceptable to community (i.e., low-risk pesticides). |
| Regulatory |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Maintain the registration of older broad-spectrum pesticides that are viable and safe as a rotational tool for resistance management. |
| Regulatory |
5 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Adopt Special Local Need (Section 24C) and Emergency Use Exemption (Section 18) labels in a timely and realistic manner with respect to grower needs. |
| Regulatory |
6 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Inform EPA of the need to establish clear and understandable label standards for enclosed cabs. |
| Research |
1 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Identify alternatives to methyl bromide. |
| Research |
2 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop and offer methods of methyl bromide rate reductions with plasticulture (VIF-type plastics such as solid metal and heat trap). |
| Research |
3 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Continue testing new pesticides. |
| Research |
4 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Find viable materials that are effective, yet acceptable to community (i.e., reduced-risk and IPM-friendly pesticides). |
| Research |
5 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Breed TSWV-resistant tomato varieties. |
| Research |
6 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Manage weeds: sedges (yellow, purple, and annual), common purslane, morningglory, nightshade, groundcherry, and other broadleaf weeds. |
| Research |
7 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Do research on insects (e.g., stink bugs, thrips, and spider mites). |
| Research |
8 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Do research on diseases (e.g., TSWV bacterial speck, bacterial spot, botrytis, fruit rots, fusarium/verticillium wilts, and nematodes). |
| Research |
9 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Investigate threshold/damage relationships and evaluation/prediction tools for insects, diseases, and weeds. |
| Research |
10 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Manage pesticide resistance of insect, disease, and weed pests. |
| Research |
11 |
All |
|
6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop clear and understandable enclosed-cab safety standards. |