Newsletter

2020

Quarter 4

Read the 2020 Quarter 4 issue
Highlights include:

• Tree fruit outreach in pears and IPM of codling moth & stink bugs
• Benefits of pruning in urban IPM
• Focus on herbicide resistance in small grains
• Watermelon grafting articles published
• Onion grower survey shows high IPM adoption
• IPM outreach at grape and mint conferences
• New video explains phylloxera monitoring

Quarter 3

Read the 2020 Quarter 3 issue
Highlights include:

• 2nd edition pocket hop guide
• Progress against grape phylloxera
• Summer season potato and onion IPM
• Promoting wine grape vineyard health
• Watermelon grafting in the news

Quarter 2

Read the 2020 Quarter 2 issue
Highlights include:

• New IPM tools launched for small grains
• Wine grape outreach on nematodes, PM, Botrytis and more
• Vegetable grafting article published in Hortscience
• Stink bug and moth management in tree fruits
• Bumble bee citizen-scientist training goes virtual
• Key hop pests addressed in Best Practices e-meeting
• Issues with honey bees in blueberry

Quarter 1

Read the 2020 Quarter 1 issue
Highlights include

• Grafting as a tool in Verticilium wilt management
• The role of pruning in a landscape IPM program
• Novel techniques in pear psylla, BMSB, and codling moth management
• Viticulture program earns awards for outreach excellence
• Arthropod IPM in wine grapes, hops, and alfalfa seed
• Indoor storage for honey bee hives?
• New tools for weed management in small grains
• Mint research updates delivered
• IPM outreach and surveys for potato and onion growers

2019

Quarter 4

Read the 2019 Quarter 4 issue
Highlights include

• Nationwide WERA and IR-4 connections reinforce IPM
• Viticulture topics include phylloxera and fungicide resistance
• Focus on onion thrips and seed corn maggots
• 2019 Wheat Academy draws full house
• Vegetable grafting in español and in the news
• 2020 Crop Protection Guide for Tree Fruits underway
• New urban IPM video emphasizes minimizing pesticides
• A new home planned for WSU’s bee program

Quarter 3

Read the 2019 Quarter 3 issue
Highlights include

• Hop outreach includes interaction with brewers
• Onion events reach growers and researchers
• Weed science field tour in the Palouse
• Alternatives for pear pest management explored
• New video will train landscape professionals
• Vegetable grafting explained to multiple audiences
• Irrigated Ag REC releases annual report

Quarter 2

Read the 2019 Quarter 2 issue
Highlights include

• Honey bee team wins interdisciplinary award
• Tree fruit team active in Entomological Society of America
• Outreach in hops, onions, alfalfa seed, and wine grapes
• PNW Bumble Bee Atlas project conducts training
• Potato field day looks at Lygus, viruses
• Spring edition of Viticulture and Enology Extension News
• Vegetable grafting outreach to students and professionals

Quarter 1

Read the 2019 Quarter 1 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