Pest Management Solutions for Specialty Crops and Specialty Uses |
|
The following is a recap of news and updates announced by The IR-4 Project during the month of March. |
|
New 60 Years of IR-4 Video |
|
IR-4 HQ recently worked with NC State University Communications & Marketing to produce a short video for our homepage. The video introduces IR-4's work, why it matters, and why we're so proud to be celebrating 60 years in 2023.
We hope you enjoy watching the video, sharing it with your networks, and helping to spread the word about IR-4's impacts across the specialty crop community.
If you share this video on social media, please use the hashtag: #60yearsofIR4. Thanks for all you do to support IR-4's mission — and here's to another 60 years!
|
|
Joint CLC & PMC Meeting Recap |
|
Early this month, IR-4 management and operations team members visited Washington, D.C. for IR-4’s joint Project Management Committee (PMC) and Commodity Liaison Committee (CLC) meetings.
We welcomed stakeholders and partners to a 60 Years of IR-4 Reception where we celebrated the project's longevity and impacts. The CLC and Friends of IR-4 also hosted congressional staffers for a lunch and learn. Attendees of both events got to fill IR-4 grocery bags with tasty, beautiful products provided by our CLC members.
We enjoyed spreading the word about IR-4's 60th year in our nation's capital!
|
|
The IR-4 Commodity Liaison Committee at the Longworth House Office Building |
|
EPA and FDA Consider Change in Pest Management Product Oversight |
|
Potential impacts on IR-4's work and the beekeeping industry
The protection of honey bee colonies is of vital importance to IR-4, to the beekeeping industry, and to the specialty crop growers we serve. IR-4's ability to serve the honey bee industry may be hampered by a proposed regulation change.
Read more
www.ir4project.org
|
|
|
|
|
|
Have you registered yet for the April 11 Research Symposium? |
|
During this virtual event, presenters will share research results from Integrated Solutions and Product Performance trials on food crops. Results from these trials are used to identify potential pest management solutions for specialty crops, and to support product registrations.
The Research Symposium is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
|
|
Save the Date for These Upcoming Events: |
|
INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY SESSION
Thursday, July 20, 2023 | Virtual
In preparation for the Food Use Workshop, this annual event gives companies the opportunity to present updates on products already in IR-4 research, as well as new technologies. Visit the ITS event webpage for more details coming soon.
FOOD USE WORKSHOP
September 12-14, 2023 | Raleigh, NC (virtual option available)
Research priorities for residue studies, efficacy and crop safety research, and integrated solutions projects for 2024 will be identified during this workshop. Visit the FUW event webpage for more details coming soon.
ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE (EHC) WORKSHOP
October 10-12, 2023 | Little Rock, AR (virtual option available)
Research priorities for the 2024-2025 environmental horticulture research cycle will be identified during this workshop. Visit the EHC event webpage for more details coming soon.
Additional information for each event, including registration, will be shared soon.
|
|
ENVIRONMENTAL HORTICULTURE UPDATES |
|
The EHC Program released a new research summary at the end of February:
|
|
Isoxaben + Dithiopyr Crop Safety - 2023
Fortress (isoxaben + dithiopyr) was registered in 2018 for environmental horticulture crop uses. Between 2018 and 2020, IR-4 examined 17 crop species / genera to expand this label to other crops.
Read more
www.ir4project.org
|
|
|
|
|
|
FOOD CROP TOLERANCE SUCCESSES |
|
The following tolerance successes were added to our website in March 2023 (find them under Food Crop Successes & Stories):
|
|
Follow us on social media! |
|
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 2021-34383-34848 and 2020-34383-32455 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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
