Speaker: Karen Stever, Ph.D., GGSPro technical specialist, Griffin Greenhouse Supplies

PESTICIDE CLASS- SPANISH TRANSLATION

Success with biological pest control requires developing a strategy that accounts for the nature of the crops being grown, environmental conditions, and expected pests. Another important element of developing an effective biocontrol strategy is defining what success means. For many, maintaining a target pest pressure threshold without solely relying on, or even eliminating, the use of pesticides is the primary goal. Stever will discuss a bi-weekly preventative approach which can serve as a program for a grower using biological control agents (BCAs) for the first time, or as an effective base plan that can be tailored to a wide variety of crop situations.