Survey: Fruit and Nut Growers Are Using a Wide Range of Biocontrols

Each year, American Fruit Grower® and Western Fruit Grower® magazines survey the nation’s fruit and nut growers — as well as industry suppliers and farm advisers — about a number of topics.

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The chart below shows exactly which types of biocontrols growers are applying, and it’s interesting how evenly spread the growers’ responses were to this question.

American Fruit Grower State of the Industry biocontrols usage chart

Note: The majority of the 15% of the growers indicating “Other” specified they employed some form of mating disruption, often pheromone puffers.

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