Newsletter

A quarterly summary of Extension IPM activity highlights.

2019

Quarter 1

Read the latest issue
Highlights include

• Weed control tips from Australia
• Mint root borer monitoring and management
• Winter wine grape meetings focus on fungicides
• Lygus problems in potatoes
• Burrowing shrimp plague oyster beds
• Orchard conference highlights stink bugs and more
• Teaching vegetable grafting to K-12 educators
• IPM training for urban applicators

2018

Quarter 4

Read the 2018 Quarter 4 issue
Highlights include

• Tree fruit presentations: Drones, Invasive Species
• Science Café teaches vegetable grafting
• Tackling tipworm in cranberry
• Landscape pros trained in IPM
• Fungus may be a tool in beekeeping
• Annual Wheat Academy held in Pullman
• Onion growers surveyed use IPM resources

Quarter 3

Read the 2018 Quarter 3 issue
Highlights include

• Hortsense adds “Natural Enemies & Pollinators”
• Podcasts for wheat and grain growers
• Using drones for sterile insect release
• Hop council tours IAREC
• Summer outreach in grapes
• Onion team wins USDA award
• Aquatic crop IPM updates
• Monitoring mites for honey bee health
• Increasing awareness of vegetable grafting

Quarter 2

Read the 2018 Quarter 2 issue
Highlights include

• IPM activities in the news
• beekeepers learn mite monitoring
• stink bug education for kids
• cranberry IPM activities
• herbicide decision tool for pulse crops
• fungicide resistance workshops in wine grapes
• vegetable grafting tools now available

Quarter 1

Read the 2018 Quarter 1 issue
Highlights include

• fungicide resistance in grapes
• vegetable grafting workshop
• onion/carrot/potato IPM
• alfalfa seed and pollinator protection
• mustard weed control in small grains
• hop IPM outreach
• shellfish IPM tours
• Ramorum Blight awareness
• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug awareness for homeowners