For those of you who participated in the project in 2004-2005, Tomas has crunched the IPM and pesticide risk data and come up with some great news. You’ve improved your IPM score by 13% and reduced pesticide risk by 58%. Read on for some additional accomplishments.
Participating growers improved orchard management in the following ways:
2002 – baseline year
45% had a structured scouting program
64% used a weather monitor
27% used formal pest counts
36% calculated degree days on-farm
55% used predictive models
27% used thresholds to determine application
2005 – after most growers have participated the full two years
83% had a structured scouting program
92% used a weather monitor
75% used formal pest counts
92% collected data on-farm
83% used predictive models
83% used thresholds to determine application
