May 6, 2025. The International Horti-Daily e-news reports news of interest to the global horticultural industry and today featured the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program-funded project that evaluated the opportunity to manage swede midge in brassica vegetable crops with the use of ground barriers.
Photo: The placement of landscape fabric over ground impacted by swede midge in 2023 successfully reduced the pest’s population to only two counts above the NNYADP-funded trial’s economic threshold from April to October 2024. Photo: Elisabeth Hodgdon
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Click here to read the full NNYADP 2024 report with swede management trial results