Articles by Brian

By Mary Ruth McDonald, Tyler Blauel and Kevin Vander Kooi, University of Guelph The carrot weevil (CW) is an important pest of carrots in Ontario,…

By Gina Greenway, Greenway Research One of the most costly and persistent challenges impacting carrot seed production is bacterial blight, caused by Xanthomonas. The economic…

Insights into Bacterial Blight Epidemiology By Jeremiah Dung and Jeness Scott, Central Oregon Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Oregon State University A research study is…

Without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost substantial genetic variation within only nine generations, an experimental study found. A group of “selfing”…

USDA Farm Service Agency has launched the Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) Program, a new cost share program that provides financial assistance for…

Research looks at ways to increase adoption of public food forests in communities Public food forests exist on publicly owned or stewarded land. They are designed…

Washington State University will be hosting an insect and weed control field tour on July 20th from 2-4 pm. Join them at the WSU Commercial Vegetable Farm…

Teleos Ag Solutions will be hosting two fumigation stewardship training events in August. The first will be in Moses Lake on August 2 at the Big…

Certis Biologicals has launched MeloCon LC, a water-dispersible concentrate containing spores from a naturally occurring soil fungus which controls a variety of harmful nematodes at every lifecycle…