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February 20, 2020 By karalynn

Progressive Farmer: Nematodes Protocol for CRW Started with NNYADP Alfalfa Research

Dr. Elson Shields with a healthy alfalfa root at NNY farmers’ field day. Photo: NNYADP

FROM NEW YORK TO TEXAS is a subheading in an article in Progressive Farmer about how trials of biocontrol nematodes for managing corn rootworm in Texas got their start as a way to manage alfalfa snout beetle in northern New York.

In the story titled “Invasion of the Rootworm Snatchers. . . Can they save Bt corn?,” DTN Staff Reporter Emily Unglesbee interviews Cornell entomologist Elson Shields who, with a year-to-year, long-term funding commitment by the farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP), pioneered the science that has become a protocol for the use of entomopathogenic nematodes for pest management in field crops (and some berry crops as NNYADP research projects have proven).

Click here to read the Progressive Farmer article

Click here for NNYADP alfalfa and biocontrol nematodes research reports

 

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