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Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Specialty Uses
Greetings!

At IR-4, we are still diligently working to ensure growers have tools to successfully manage pest problems. Our collaborating network of institutions has individually mandated or strongly encouraged non-essential employees to work from home. Many others have been classified as essential and allowed to complete research as long as adequate social distancing is maintained. While some field locations are temporarily shuttered, administrative activities are continuing. We anticipate that some 2020 research experiments may be delayed or even compromised. Though we want to complete as much as possible, the personal safety of IR-4 team members is paramount.
IR-4 is actively tracking the status of our 2020 field research in the Food Program (residue trials, performance research and integrated solutions) and the Environmental Horticulture Program. Please view our Food Crop Tracking Spreadsheet to view current status in the food program. For the Environmental Horticulture Program, please visit Search the Database .

If you have any questions or need additional information, please reach out to the IR-4 Regional Offices and IR-4 Headquarters. Please visit our home page for quick links to key contacts.

Below are the typical collection of recent successes and news in the Food and Environmental Horticulture Programs.
Food Crop Success Stories
Cilantro and dill growers gain an additional weed...

Cilantro and dill growers and researchers work together to expand registration of clomazone through IR-4 Project. Author - David Kuack Growing multiple vegetable crops can be a blessing and a curse. Ratto Bros. Inc. in Modesto, Calif., produces...

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Expanding options to protect Asparagus

Few veggies herald the advent of summer like asparagus spears emerging from underground. Asparagus appreciation dates back millennia, and Millennial bloggers continue to drive its demand today. This is a perennial plant with perennial popularity. ...

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Environmental Horticulture Summaries
Botrytis Efficacy Summary - 2020

At the IR-4 Environmental Horticulture Program Workshop in 2011, Botrytis Efficacy was selected as a high priority project to expand the knowledge and list of fungicides available to growers for these diseases. In addition to research collected...

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Indaziflam Crop Safety - 2020

From 2011 through 2019, IR-4 has completed 141 trials evaluating evaluating two granular and one liquid formulations of indaziflam for crop safety. The data contained in this report was generated to register the use of indaziflam on and around...

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Dimethenamid-p Crop Safety - 2020

From 2007 to 2019, IR-4 completed 549 trials on Tower EC (dimethenamid-p). The data contained in this report was generated to register uses of dimethenamid-p on and around environmental horticulture plants with over-the-top applications. The...

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Sulfentrazone Crop Safety - 2020

Since 1996 IR-4 has completed 259trials with products containing sulfentrazone (Sulfentrazone 0.2G and Dismiss 4F) on 111 crops. The data contained in this report was generated to register uses of sulfentrazone on and around environmental...

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News and Events
IR-4 hosts Lunch & Learn with Senate Agriculture Committee

Author - Katie Chriest Until recently, many of us never imagined that foods we know and love might be missing from our grocery store shelves. We've taken for granted that the watermelons, tomatoes and avocados we depend upon will be...

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Hawaii IR-4 Field Research Center

After attending the 2020 IR-4 National Education Conference (NEC) during last week of February held in San Diego CA, the IR-4 team from University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM), Dr. Wilfredo Robles and Luis E. Almodóvar traveled to Honolulu,...

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This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 2017-34383-27100 with substantial cooperation and support from the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, USDA-ARS and USDA-FAS. In accordance with Federal Law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability.