Project Number: 6204-22000-019-06
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 01, 2005
End Date: Sep 30, 2009

Objective:
The objective of this cooperative research project is to develop production strategies that optimize floricultural and ornamental horticulture cropping system management practices.

Approach:
To the above objective, the research/extension/and industry team will conduct cropping systems-based laboratory, greenhouse and nursery experiments, and targeted demonstration trials that will: (1) provide grower-specific protocols for effective management of insecticides that maximize product efficacy and worker safety while minimizing environmental risk, (2) develop protocols for practical integration of non-chemical based methods for management of insect, mite, and disease pests, (3) draft grower-tested IPM plans that may be adopted by greenhouse and nursery production facilities in Texas, the South, and elsewhere, and (4) to ensure long-term applicability of research results, economic boundaries (easily characterized by growers or industry groups) to the recommended protocols will delineated.