PMSP for Sweet Corn in Florida

Priorities

Category Rank Pest Type Pest Crop Stage Priority
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design and conduct an education program for silage corn/stover management, ditchbank sanitation, as well as pinhook education.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design a monitoring program for diseases in other perennial grass crops.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Conduct grower trials with bird repellent.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Determine whether sweet corn pesticides can be used on field stover.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Continue working towards chlorantraniliprole registration.
Regulatory 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Investigate possibility in reducing plantback periods for tembotrione (especially sugarcane).
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design and conduct tests to investigate fall armyworm resistance to commonly used insecticides.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design and conduct tests on silkfly repellency and attraction semiochemicals with concomitant work on insecticide efficacy.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Examine common seed treatment efficacy on cucumber beetle larvae.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design and conduct tests to gauge the durability of rust resistance.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design and conduct tests to manage bacterial leaf spot (chemical, phage, etc.).
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Design and conduct tests to provide cold protection (cultivar, bacteria, etc.).
Research 7 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Determine possible atrazine resistance in lambsquarter and purslane.