From the Network
PMN Welcomes BASF as Industry Partner
BASF
Crop Protection is the latest organization
to become a partner of the Plant Management
Network. BASF offers a variety of
herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and
seed treatment technologies that provide the
highest level of crop protection. BASF is
dedicated to discovering and developing new
environmentally-sound agricultural products
and technologies, investing $442 million
globally each year in research and
development to help farmers achieve their
goals: healthier plants, higher yields and
higher profit potential.
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Join the 75 industry,
nonprofit, and land-grant university
partners
that support our not-for-profit mission: to
enhance the health, management, and
production of agricultural and horticultural
crops. Please
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for details.
Potato Late Blight Webcast Published
Potato
Late Blight, by Steve Johnson at the
University of Maine, will
help consultants, growers, and other
practitioners throughout the potato growing
regions understand late blight’s cause and
disease cycle. It will also define factors leading to the
disease, and present management practices
that will reduce late blight losses.
This is the fourth in our series of six
pre-launch webcasts for
Focus on Potato, a web-based resource to
help users develop healthier,
higher-yielding potato crops.
Focus on Soybean Publishes New Webcast
Soybean
White Mold by Paul Esker of the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, will help
practitioners in the North-Central U.S.
improve their understanding of the risk
factors associated with this disease. It
particularly focuses on the biology of the
pathogen (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum),
symptoms and signs, and risk factors
associated with occurrence and disease
development. Finally, soybean white mold
management is discussed. View dozens of
other webcasts at
Focus on Soybean.
Plant Disease Management Reports Vol. 4 Now
Published
Researchers, product developers, crop
consultants, growers, and other
practitioners can now access our latest
volume of
Plant Disease Management Reports. Search
more than 400 new trials on the
effectiveness of fungicides, nematicides,
and biological controls. This resource
covers products labeled for cereals, fruits,
vegetables, cucurbits, turfgrasses, forages,
ornamentals, and many other agricultural and
horticultural crops.
New Section in On-farm Research Conference
Proceedings
The proceedings of Iowa State University’s
On-farm Research Conference has an
entirely new fourth section titled
Statistics and Research Design. This section
contains two new presentations: “Identifying
Good Experiments and Valid Results” and
“Statistics
for On-Farm Research.” These
presentations, authored by Paul Esker of the
University of Wisconsin and Phil Dixon at
Iowa State, are divided into a total of
eight parts.
Positions Available
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CURRENT LISTINGS:
*NET Web Developer
*Assistant Professor, Environmental
Science/Water Quality
*Director of Plant Diagnostic Clinic &
Extension Associate
*Associate Plant Scientist
*Associate Plant Scientist
*Associate Plant Scientist
See postings at
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