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Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Specialty Uses
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This monthly email provides information about IR-4 program accomplishments,announcements, resources and upcoming events.
Food Use Program
In June, there was one new tolerance for Penthiopyrad on: Caneberry subgroup 13-07A, Bushberry subgroup 13-07B,Vegetable, brassica, head and stem, group 5-16, Brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 4- 16B, Oilseed group 20 Fruit, stone, group 12-12 Nut, tree, group 14-12, Leafy greens subgroup 4-16A, Leaf petiole vegetable subgroup 22B 1 Celtuce, Florence fennel, and Kohlrab. Read the entire report here.

Annual visits by the IR-4 headquarters team and our Canadian AAFC/PMC colleagues, with our many registrant partners, continued in June with meetings in Indianapolis with Corteva and Carmel, IN, with SePro; in Newport Beach, CA, with AMVAC; in Yuma, AZ, with Gowan; in Wilmington/Newark, DE, with Nichino and FMC; and at IR-4 HQ with Nisso. These partnership meetings will continue into August. The IR-4 database is being edited to reflect project updates discussed.
 
The first ever IR-4 2019 "Week of Workshops" is set for the week of Sept. 22 at the Delta Hotel Baltimore Hunt Valley, Hunt Valley, MD (just north of Baltimore). The first announcement went out via email and Constant Contact April 9. Final agendas and other important information is being communicated in coming months via this monthly report and other means. Registration is now open. To view more information and to register go to our website or register here.
 
For Food Use project prioritization we will again use an online project nomination process (Aug. 29 - Sept. 11) to identify the most critical researchable projects for possible 2020 priorities before we arrive in Baltimore. New project requests (PCRs) should be submitted as early as possible to allow for proper vetting by HQ and registrants prior to the workshop (Aug. 27 is the deadline for new PCRs to be available for nomination and possible discussion at the workshop). We hope you put Sept. 23-26 on your calendar - see you in Baltimore!

The dates/venue have been set for the next IR-4 National Education Conference (NEC). NEC2020 will be held Tues-Wed. Feb. 25-26, 2020, at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA, the same venue where the IR-4 Ornamental Horticulture priority-setting meeting was held in Oct. 2017. We received a rate of $159 single/double room per night, and the standard resort fee has been waived. The IR-4 Education & Training Committee will be working in coming months to create an agenda with something for everyone. Get ready to pack your bags for beautiful southern CA for NEC2020, Feb. 25-26! Stay tuned for more details via this monthly report, the IR-4 website and other avenues of communication!
International Activities
 
The presentations from t he 2019 California Specialty Crops MRL Workshop (May 29 th and 30 th ) have been posted on t he California Specialty Crops Council  website at: http://specialtycrops.org/mrlworkshop.html    

The 2019 Codex Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR)met during week of April 9, 2019 in Macao, China   The CCPR, agreed to forward 326 MRLs to the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) for final adoption at its next session (July 2019).  These MRLs are associated with 31 pesticides. Three of the seven new compounds reviewed by JMPR in 2018 were nominated by the United States. Crop Group and Subgroup MRLs accounted for 43 of the 326 MRLs forwarded for adoption.
 
The Committee considered proposed amendments and reached consensus on the classification work for the following crop groups and subgroups: Class C: Primary Feed Commodities. Type 11: Primary Feed Commodities of Plant Origin, All Groups and Class D: Processed Food Commodities of Plant Origin. All Types and Groups. 

CCPR further developed Guidance for Compounds of Low Public Health Concerns to establish harmonized concepts and criteria to be used to identify pesticides that can be considered exempt from the establishment of CXLs. Many countries supported continued work since products of low public health concern, such as biopesticides, continue to play a more important role in plant protection.
 
The Codex schedules and priorities and the revised Schedules and Priority Lists of Pesticides for review by JMPR included: Six new compounds and twenty nominations listed for new uses, and six compounds for periodic Review. 

Also, residue mitigation research is under way in Ghana and Senegal to reduce residues in okra, eggplant and mango.

Environmental Horticulture
2019 Research Activities
No protocol changes were made in June and research is ongoing.
 
Numbers for June
8 1 % of the research has been received for 2017 projects
5 7 % of the research has been received for 2018 projects
4 % of the research has been received for 2019 projects

428 unique visitors viewed 1001 EnvironHort website pages
 
Research Summaries
During June , we posted the 2019 M ite E fficacy & Literature Review. For the next couple months, our focus will be preparing handouts for the upcoming workshop in September, so compiling and posting research summaries will begin again in October .
 
Invasive Species
During June, we continued editing the final summary of the APHIS Downy Mildew Project.
 
SCRI Protecting Pollinators
In June , summer research is continuing for the pollinator attractiveness studies and for the systemic insecticide residue characterizations . We also posted 2 new articles about best management practices to protect bees and interesting fun facts on the Protecting Bees website. Visit the website at: https://protectingbees.njaes.rutgers.edu/
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Integrated Solutions
For the Integrated Solutions priority setting workshop, the top priorities identified were: damping-off in hemp, bacterial disease control in onions, parasitic weed control in processing tomato, cucumber beetle control in watermelon, wireworm control in sweet potato, and verticillium wilt control in eggplant. IR-4 believes that this Integrated Solutions approach, being a hybrid of the Food Use Pest Problems without Solutions research (PPWS) and elements of the traditional Biopesticide research program, will better service the needs of the IR-4 stakeholders. These priorities will serve as a roadmap for 2019, and help to address several high priority pest management voids for the grower community. We have just launched the Integrated Solutions Request Form ( http://ir4app.rutgers.edu/ir4FoodPub/IS/Is_reqForm.aspx ) . It can be found as the “Submit a Request” link near the top of the page here: http://ir4app.rutgers.edu/ir4FoodPub/IS_Search.aspx .  



Events
IR-4 2019 "Week of Workshops"
Delta Hotels Baltimore Hunt Valley,
Hunt Valley, MD
Week of Sept. 22, 2019
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