New Pest Management Report on Onions Show Gains and Needs

摘要

Onion growers are adopting integrated pest management practices and benefitting from IPM strategies, according to a recently published national Pest Management Strategic Plan for dry bulb storage onions, created with Western Integrated Pest ManagementCenter funding. "We're seeing good adoption of IPM by growers, either as individuals, or coming from crop consultants,1" said Howard Schwartz, a professor of plant pathology at Colorado State University and the lead author of the plan. "We've been pleased with that".