The Integrated Pest Management Program Summary for Muck Vegetable Crops, 2013
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An Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is provided to growers in the Holland/Bradford Marsh, Ontario, by the Muck Crops Research Station (MCRS). Investment in this project has been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada through the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP). In Ontario, this program is delivered by the Agricultural Adaptation Council. Funding was also provided by the Bradford Co-Operative Storage Ltd., growers participated in the IPM program and chemical company sponsors. The main objectives of the project are: to scout growers' fields for diseases, weeds and insect pests, to provide growers with disease and insect forecasting information, to identify and diagnose diseases, insect pests and weeds, and to implement rotorod spore traps to trap and analyze spores of various vegetable crop pathogens.