Biological Control In Orchards

Biological Control In Orchards. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

During the recent Hort meeting in Wenatchee, Angela Gadino with WSU talked about outreach education on biological control in the orchard. Her presentation discussed ways to improve the stability of IPM programs in apple, pear, and walnut orchards, by enhancing biological control.

GADINO: Our team members have been involved in several field days and annual horticultural workshops throughout the states of Oregon, Washington and California as part of this project. One of the important parts of this project is to not only make the information available now to our users but as well to have it available into the future.

The information is available in traditional publications but also as part of WSU’s DAS system.

GADINO: And then a very important creation is the project website. It can be found at enhancedbiocontrol.org and on our website you’ll be able to find a lot of the work that’s being done, the pesticide table is up on that website. It’s a great wealth of information.

She talks about the plan for the future.

GADINO: To update our project website with new information as it comes in. We’re also working on developing a train the trainer program for next year and then we are going to be offering a 2-day interactive short course. It’s going to be February 7th & 8th. The sessions are going to be held concurrently in two places in Washington. In Wenatchee and in Pasco and also in Hood River, Oregon.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.