With the potential reduction in insecticide availability in the future, it’s crucial to ensure currently available products remain effective.

Proper maintenance ensures improved yield and income. On the contrary, poor soil health can create a breeding ground for unwanted disease pathogens.

Survey respondents indicate 65% of specialty crop growers are using biologicals to boost yields and improve quality.

Carbon Robotics has done it again. Powered by AI, its LaserWeeder G2 provides precise weed control in new sizes, configurations, and prices.

Plant residue decomposers, phosphite-based products used as preventive measures against fungal diseases.

Data show RoundUp PowerMAX 3, Microthiol Disperss, and LI 700 among the top California crop protection product use in 2024.

Discover effective strategies and lessons learned from growers on managing wildlife control challenges like deer, birds, and rodents.

Weather analytics provides foresight in allowing users to make correct and timely decisions on key agronomic practices.

Fungicide resistance turns Michigan growers into easy pickings for cherry leaf spot when wind and rain prevail. Scientists search for new options.

USDA secures $129.2 million in emergency funds to deter fruit flies — some of the most destructive fruit and vegetable pests in the world.

Scientists are working on a new project to fight plant diseases transmitted by psyllids — particularly the zebra chip disease, a pain for potato growers.

Munckhof Fruit Tech Innovators comes up with new load sensing technology for its VariMAS orchard sprayer. Learn how it works.

Federal grants to help researchers wrangle tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), a vector-borne disease of tomatoes, peppers, and scores of other plants.

USDA is granting more than $70 million to back hundreds of projects meant to fortify, prevent, detect, and mitigate invasive pests and diseases.

What do your fellow growers know about biocontrols? Here’s how you can find out.

Drape netting in organic apple orchard prevents repeat of destructive 2021 season.

Currently, there are no commercially available public strawberry varieties resistant to neopestalotiopsis. A new partnership aims to change that.

If you take these straightforward steps, you can develop a fungicide program that works for you.

EPA approves chlorantraniliprole post-patent products. Learn about two that pertain to fruit and nut growers.