Cornell Awards Excellence in IPM Award to “Pumpkin Whisperer” Meg McGrath

Cornell University’s New York State Integrated Pest Management Program (NYS IPM) has awarded the Excellence in IPM Award to Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist based at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. McGrath works as an advisor to New York growers and is well versed in IPM strategies and tactics that both organic and conventional growers use to combat disease pests such as late blight and downy mildew. McGrath received her award on January 18 at the 2017 Empire State Producers Expo in Syracuse, New York. For more on McGrath and the Excellence in IPM Award, please visit Cornell’s site here.