Provide all recommendations for pest management in electronic database to be updated as needed; continue to update and disseminate the Southeastern Vegetable Crop handbook and similar publications in hard-copy and electronic formats

Provide more comprehensive pest management programs integrating biopesticides

Continue to provide brief pest and disease fact sheets

Provide nutrient management plans for tomato production

Educate the public on emerging technologies

Educate growers and commodity groups on emerging technologies 

Continue to disseminate the most current pest management information

Continue to educate growers on environmental population dynamics and how the use of certain products may affect or increase populations of other insect pests

Educate growers on product rotation to prevent resistance issues in armyworm species (beet, fall, and southern) (Spodoptera spp.)

Educate growers on management of insecticide application practices to prevent resistance in two-spotted spider mites, thrips, and whiteflies

Educate growers to prevent over-use of broad spectrum insecticides that are causing a decline in populations of beneficial insects

Provide education on and emphasize early detection of thrips and mites for effective control

Educate growers on importance of preventative applications for effective control of early blight (Alternaria linariae), Septoria leaf spot (Septoria lycopersici), target spot (Corynespora cassiicola), and other foliar pathogens

Educate growers on herbicide application practices to prevent resistance

Emphasize the importance of the application timing of herbicides for annual grass control

Inform growers of potential risks from spray drift and conditions under which herbicide volatilization occurs 

Provide lists of active ingredients with corresponding generic trade names

Allow or develop smaller quantities of commercially-used products for small acreage farms to encourage pesticide rotation for resistance management

Standardize pesticide labels, including the name and placement, of the pre-harvest interval

Continue to register effective materials that are acceptable to the public

Support the development of new fumigants as methyl bromide alternatives

Maintain the registration of older broad-spectrum pesticides and critical use exemptions that are viable and safe as a rotational tool for resistance management

Adopt Special Local Need and Emergency Use Exemption labels in a timely and realistic manner with respect to grower needs

Establish clear and understandable pesticide label standards for enclosed cabs

Clarify the standards for post-harvest sanitation practices in regards to chlorine (free, total, and available)

Register effective products for the brown-marmorated stink bug and other stink bugs

Register effective products for stink bugs in Arkansas and other states where effective products aren't labeled

Register effective miticides

Regain the registration of endosulfin

Register fungicides for control of target spot (Corynespora cassiicola) and retain the label for thiophanate-methyl (Topsin M)

Improve fumigants or develop new fumigants with better volatility and deeper penetration into the soil; identify alternatives to methyl bromide with equal efficacy

Expand research on insect-vectored plant pathogens regarding epidemiology and management (e.g. TSWV and other viruses)

Investigate thresholds and develop evaluation tools for insects, diseases, and weeds

Research the diversity of the bacterial wilt pathogen (Ralstonia solanacearum) and host (tomato) genetics for developing host resistance

Examine integrating biologicals into insecticide and fungicide programs for resistance management

Develop effective materials that are acceptable to the public (i.e. reduced-risk and IPM-friendly pesticides)

Understand regional population dynamics for whiteflies

Prevent potential resistance to neonicitinoids (MOA 4A) and MOA 28 insecticides.

Examine double cropping for managing insect populations

Develop better pest management strategies for adult and nymph whiteflies.

Prevent the introduction and spread of Old World Bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) in the southeast

Develop new miticides

Understand the role of insects or the major cause of gold-flecking on tomato fruit and investigate tolerance to gold-flecking among varieties

Determine potential benefical outcomes of tank mixing oils and standard insecticides for insect control

Develop regional models to predict outbreaks

Improve and continue to use USABlight as the eastern North American forecasting system for first arrival of late blight (Phytophthora infestans)

Implement systems management approach for bacterial spot and bacterical speck

Implement systems management approach for soilborne diseases, including nematodes

Develop tomato varieties with host resistance to multiple pathogens (early blight [Alternaria linariae], late blight [Phytophthora infestans], Septoria leaf spot [Septoria lycopersici], and others)

Develop effective application and coverage methods for control of target spot (Corynespora cassiicola) and investigate the disease-fungicide interaction

Develop TSWV resistant tomato varieties with multiple gene resistance and varieties with resistance to other viruses; improve host plant resistance

Perform research on emerging begomoviruses and tospoviruses and their vectors

Develop control for purple and yellow nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus and C. esculentus) under plastic

Develop good resistance management strategies to control Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri)

Develop control programs for parthenium (Parthenium hystophorous) in Florida