| Extension/Outreach |
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Improved management guidelines for “hard to control” weeds such as; seasonal timing for postemergent (POST) weed control to manage perennial weed pests in nursery borders, field rows and new (e.g., container and pot-in-pot) production areas. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Encourage the support and use of county Extension personnel (serving the green industry) in the dissemination of information. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Monitor the presence and populations of insects and establish action thresholds. |
| Extension/Outreach |
1 |
Pathogens |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop resources that provide information regarding cultural practices as well as chemical controls with efficacy tables that also include other details such as curative/preventative activity and certain state label restrictions. |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Improved monitoring tools, protocols, and educational programs (e.g., improved guides for identifying “emerging weeds of concern”). |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Utilize multi state collaboration of university/industry personnel to develop a regional web site/clearing house for compiling and disseminating pest/pest management information. |
| Extension/Outreach |
2 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Group scale insects and develop management guidelines for each group. |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Improved decision-aids for selecting the most appropriate weed management options – (e.g., economic thresholds, efficacy tables, resistance management protocols). |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Emphasize use of digital diagnosis through county offices. |
| Extension/Outreach |
3 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Emphasize scouting and early detection to be able to act on thresholds. |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Training leading to development of an overall integrated weed management plan, tailored to each specific production operation, for controlling weeds. |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop training and certification for scouting (expand to on-line and through distance education). |
| Extension/Outreach |
4 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Use oils early when thresholds are reached to avoid using products that might be more expensive, more toxic or both. |
| Extension/Outreach |
5 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Education on avoiding crop damage from herbicides. |
| Extension/Outreach |
5 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop and make available efficacy tables to include REI and mode of action group. |
| Extension/Outreach |
5 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Emphasize the importance of decreasing stress on plants and using appropriate production practices to do so. |
| Extension/Outreach |
6 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Create awareness regarding timing of pesticide application to increase worker protection and effectiveness of chemicals. |
| Regulatory |
1 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Evaluate the sustainability of oak production regarding Sudden Oak Death. |
| Regulatory |
2 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Resolve questions on required quarantined treatments for fire ants and Japanese beetles. |
| Regulatory |
3 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Address use of hydrogen peroxide for water filters. |
| Regulatory |
4 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Address chlorine concerns (Homeland Security). |
| Regulatory |
5 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Numerous water issues (availability, quality, runoff, regulations, etc.) |
| Regulatory |
6 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Identification of ornamental production as an agriculture industry. |
| Research |
1 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Biology and ecology of weeds in these unique nursery ecosystems (e.g., environmental and climatic modeling for predicting certain weed seed germination; development and reproduction of common and newly introduced species). |
| Research |
1 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Make IPM profitable and viable for nursery crop production. |
| Research |
1 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Improve mite management. |
| Research |
1 |
Pathogens |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Evaluate the efficacy of products applied via chemigation. |
| Research |
2 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
A systematic survey of the current state of weeds in nursery production systems across the southeastern United States. |
| Research |
2 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Identify effective treatments for foliar nematodes. |
| Research |
2 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop thresholds and what products to use to avoid secondary pest outbreaks i.e., potato leafhopper applications increasing mite populations. |
| Research |
3 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Greater understanding of herbicide persistence and longevity of control relative to the need for re-applications or other supplemental management (e.g., pairing environmental/climatic models with knowledge of herbicide persistence and efficacy to better time both deployment and re-application of PRE herbicides). |
| Research |
3 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Identify plant phenological indicators of arthropod pest activity. |
| Research |
3 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Use of water conditioner for pH. |
| Research |
4 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Effectiveness and utility of cultural, physical and mechanical controls such as cover crops and living mulches, physical barriers (e.g., landscape fabric, geotextile, woolpack, hair and coir disks and large bark chip topdressings). |
| Research |
4 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Investigate how to manage arthropod pest complexes rather than individual species. |
| Research |
4 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop understanding of production practices relationship with pest outbreaks—focus on insect complexes, not on an individual but rather focus on a plant to allow the consolidation of sprays. |
| Research |
5 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Accurate cost accounting of weed management systems including labor for hand-weeding and strategies for efficient resource utilization through use of IPM to decrease weed management costs. |
| Research |
5 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Whole systems approaches to pest management. |
| Research |
5 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Determine if improved nutrition in the fall will reduce attacks by the flatheaded apple tree borer in field and container-grown plants. (Some growers use 25 ppm K or Mg nitrate late in summer to gradually slow the plants down. |
| Research |
6 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Opportunities to achieve efficient weed control with reduced PRE and POST emergence herbicide use, particularly in crops nearing sale date. |
| Research |
6 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Determine cause and treatment of Cryptomeria tip disorder. |
| Research |
6 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Timing in pruning. |
| Research |
7 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Understanding and avoiding crop injury from herbicide use in nurseries (e.g.: long-term consequences of POST emergence herbicide use such as glyphosate applications via “Enviromist” sprayer technology, or environmental persistence such as herbicide residue effects on seedling germination and liner growth. |
| Research |
7 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop more cost effective management of fire ants. |
| Research |
7 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Increase chemical efficacy by determining correct surfactants and their rate. |
| Research |
8 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Phytotoxicity of both PRE- and POST emergence chemistries on the diverse ornamental crops, with emphasis on new and expanding crop categories (e.g., perennials, ornamental grasses, tropical plants) being grown in the southeastern United States. |
| Research |
8 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Understand glyphosate damage in nursery crops, symptoms, application technology. |
| Research |
8 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Improve borer identification technique, distinguish between various borers. |
| Research |
9 |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Development of new weed control technologies and herbicide formulations, including: chemical mowing / vegetation suppression; strategies and technologies to extend seasonal duration of weed control efficacy (such as: slow-release formulations for PRE herbicides); integration of nutrients, PRE herbicides and/or insecticidal/miticidal chemistries in slow-release formulations; testing, labeling and economics of organic weed control options, oxidizers and novel chemistries for weed control efficacy (e.g., ZeroTol [hydrogen peroxide] or Terracide on liverwort and algae); Improved spray-applied herbicide options for container nurseries; Biological or biorational options for PRE and POST weed control; Selective weed management options. |
| Research |
9 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Determine physiological differences between container and field grown plants with regard to pest susceptibility and pesticide treatments. |
| Research |
9 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Determine insect biology, host preference and overwintering host preference and how production practices might affect both. |
| Research |
10 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop systemic controls of borer and scale insects. |
| Research |
10 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Products that control pests with minimal negative effects on natural enemies and pollinators. |
| Research |
11 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Identify surfactant and penetrate use for insect control in trees. |
| Research |
11 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Determine possibilities for management of granulate ambrosia beetle after they enter trees. |
| Research |
12 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Conduct efficacy and cost analysis of generic pesticides. |
| Research |
12 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Investigate pesticide efficacy, life history, timing of sprays, trials to show using life history and timing of sprays for Japanese maple scale, white peach scale. |
| Research |
13 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop a controlled release preemergence herbicide. |
| Research |
13 |
Insects |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Develop thresholds for Japanese beetles. |
| Research |
14 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Determine appropriate timing of pest monitoring, scouting, and pesticide applications for weeds, arthropods, and diseases. |
| Research |
15 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Test efficacy of chemigation techniques- test efficacy of chemicals. |
| Research |
16 |
All |
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6- to 12-Inch Shoot |
Investigate biology of black root rot. |