PMSP for the Minnesota and Wisconsin Cabbage Industry

Priorities

Category Rank Pest Type Pest Crop Stage Priority
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Marketing program for fresh market cabbage to increase marketability, create more awareness
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Collaboration and cooperation between states on educational materials
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Improve information database and delivery to growers
Extension/Outreach 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Training on the use of reduced-risk pesticides, i.e., timing, applications methods, etc
Extension/Outreach 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Field demonstration plots on new pesticides for organophosphate, carbamate and pyrethroid replacements
Extension/Outreach 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Implement action thresholds for lepidopteran complex
Extension/Outreach 7 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot White mold identification and control
Extension/Outreach 8 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Educate growers on biological control of insect and disease pests
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Command 3ME and Dual label need full labels (Command can’t be used in MN currently and Dual (currently a 24(c) in WI) doesn’t have a federal label)
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Need to keep pyrethroid insecticides available for resistance management programs, and as organophosphate replacements
Regulatory 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Need SpinTor greenhouse label for plugs and transplants for diamondback moth management
Regulatory 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Register new chemistries as they become available especially for cabbage maggot, flea beetle and aphid with new seed and soil treatment options
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Better broadleaf herbicides that allow control of escape weeds or better season long control
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot IR-4 funding to this region to look at efficacy of new products
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Establish a pest alert monitoring system for loopers and other insect pests
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Establish/refine/implement action thresholds for the lepidoptera complex
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Refine herbicide application equipment, looking at crop safety
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Biological control of insect and disease pests
Research 7 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Re-establish a variety screening process for diseases, insects and herbicides
Research 8 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Bio-assays for resistance in diamondback moth and cabbage looper
Research 9 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Bio-assays for parasitism for diamondback moth and imported cabbage worm