What are your biggest ornamental pest and PGR issues?

Erik Runkle<runkleer@msu.edu>, Michigan State University Extension, Department of Horticulture -

Steer future research by identifying your top insect, disease, weed, and PGR issues in a short IR-4 Program survey.

It’s the busiest time of the year for many of you, but the IR-4 Ornamental Horticulture Program needs your input to prioritize pest, disease, weed and plant growth regulator (PGR) research issues. By providing information on your biggest pest and PGR problems, you can shape the IR-4 program’s two-year plan that will ultimately benefit our industry. The survey can be completed online and should take no more than five to seven minutes to complete.

The IR-4 Ornamental Program focuses on greenhouse, nursery, landscape, Christmas tree and forestry producers. The primary objectives of the program are to facilitate new product registrations and to place new diseases, insects and weeds, as well as new crops, on already registered ornamental horticulture product labels. Please complete this survey to identify your biggest challenges so that our industry can move forward to address those issues.

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