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Thank you for visiting our new website. The Seed Crop IPM website, including this sub-page devoted to useful web links, is maintained by the WSU Seed Crop Team, a cross-state, interdisciplinary project to protect and enhance the seed industry in Washington State. The project is in its infancy. Stay tuned for more links, more presentations, and more information designed to help the seed crop industries of Washington State remain viable and competitive.
If you would like to suggest a link for this page, contact webmaster Sally O'Neal.
Web Links
Pacific Northwest Vegetable Extension Group
Washington State University, Oregon State University, and the University of Idaho combine resources for this page, which includes diagnostic tools, events, and resources for disease management information.
Pesticide Information Center On-Line (PICOL)
Databases containing information on Oregon and Washington pesticide labels, 24(c)s, federal supplemental labels, and pesticide tolerances relevant to agricultural commodities in the Pacific Northwest.
Resources for Vegetable Crop Producers
Diagnostic labs, forecasting systems, weather databases, pesticide information, statistics, and associations and organizations that might prove useful for vegetable and vegetable seed growers in the Pacific Northwest.
Nematodes in Washington State
This Nematology website provides an overview of plant-parasitic nematodes,
photos to aid in identification of nematode infection symptoms, and information
on economic thresholds.
Organic Seed Alliance
This membership organization supports, in their own words, "the ethical development and stewardship of seeds.
USDA Crop Profiles
These documents outline production practices for many crops nationwide, with an emphasis on actual pest management tactics employed in the field.
USDA Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSPs)
Developed by growers, commodity associations, land-grant specialists, food processors, crop consultants, and EPA, these plans address pest management needs and priorities for individual commodities in a given region, taking a pest-by-pest approach to identifying the current management practices (chemical and non-chemical) and those under development. Plans also state the commodity's priorities for research, regulatory activity, and education/training programs needed for transition to alternative pest management practices.
Washington State Pest Management Resource Service (WSPRS)
This WSU-based resource connects the people of Washington State with research-based information on pest management choices for home and commercial use, including pesticides, biological controls (biocontrol), integrated pest management (IPM), and organic methods, and including strategies for control of weed, insect, disease, and other home, public, and agricultural pests.
WSU-Mt. Vernon Vegetable Seed Pathology Program
Research-based information on the biology, epidemiology, and management of an array of fungal, viral, and bacterial diseases that affect small-seeded vegetable seed crops in the Pacific Northwest.
Weed Management in Irrigated Cropping Systems
USDA-ARS' page highlights recent weed management work near Prosser, WA.
New Presentations
Presentation on seed
germination and viability. Hiro Nonogaki, 2008 CBVSA
Annual Meeting
Seed development
and dormancy as presented by Hiro Nonogaki, 2008 CBVSA
Annual Meeting
Using coppers
to manage bacterial blight in carrot seed production. The importance
of preventive applications. Lindsey du Toit, 2008 CBVSA Annual
Meeting
2007 weed
control trials in seed crops including beet, spinach, and cabbage.
Tim Miller, 2008 WWHA/PSSGA Annual Meeting
New tools developed for identification of Botrytis
neck rot in onions. Martin Chilvers, 2008 CBVSA Annual Meeting
Preliminary studies on the impacts
of harvest timing on carrot seed germination. Tim Waters, 2008 CBVSA
Annual Meeting
Evaluation of Actigard for control of Iris
Yellow Spot Virus in onion. Importance of thrips control. Lindsey
du Toit, 2008 CBVSA Annual Meeting
Recent research on powdery
mildew in carrot seed, including impacts of various treatments and
timing of same. Lindsey du Toit, 2008 CBVSA Annual Meeting
Efficacy
of organic
seed and drench treatments for control of soilborne seedling blight
in spinach. Jaime Cummings, 2008 WWHA/PSSGA
Meeting
Cucumber
mosaic virus studies in PNW spinach seed, including rate of seed
transmission and implications for roguing. Lindsey du Toit, 2008 WWHA/PSSGA
Annual Meeting
How amending soil with limestone
might suppress Fusarium wilt in spinach seed crops. Lindsey du Toit,
2008 WWHA/PSSGA Annual Meeting
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