Grants and Contracts Details
Description
The 2-year project will validate row-cover tactics to help cucurbit growers manage the cucumber beetle/bacterial wilt
complex with fewer insecticide applications. Annual field trials in Iowa and Kentucky will optimize the timing of removal
of spunbond row covers to suppress bacterial wilt in conventional and organic muskmelon production, and integrate these
IPM tactics with streamlined methods for deploying and retrieving row covers. An economic analysis will compare the new
strategies to current practices across a range of farm sizes and management strategies.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/11 → 8/31/14 |
Funding
- Iowa State University: $76,000.00
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