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New integrated pest management tool
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April 1, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright American Society of Agricultural Engineers Apr 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Wallkill-Rondout Watershed Demonstration Project in New York is taking integrated pest management to new technical heights. Thanks to a unique weather forecasting system, participating producers can cut back on their use of a fungicide that controls leaf blight in onions, thus reducing the risk of water contamination.
The project installed automated remote weather stations in the onion fields on 11 farms and uses them in combination with integrated pest management scouting to predict outbreaks of the fungus that causes blight.
The system, called BLIGHT-ALERT was developed by James Lorbeer, Paul Vincelli and Paul Shoemaker at Cornell University.
BLIGHT-ALERT is activated whenever ...