It’s almost time for our vegetable industry’s annual selection of minor use pesticide priorities for Nova Scotia crops, and we hope you can join us! The session for vegetables will take place virtually via Zoom on Wednesday, November 17^th from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon.   

Perennia’s minor use representative, Michelle Cortens, and Laura Anderson, NSDA’s provincial minor use coordinator, will briefly outline the process and changes new to this year. Then as a group you will be guided through the crops to assess the priority pest control needs for insects, weeds/growth regulators, and diseases. If you have potential solutions on your radar (registered in other crops or uses) or have heard of products you might be interested in, please bring those along as well. Please find below the worksheets for Entomology, Pathology, and Weeds/Growth regulators to help guide us through this (lengthy) process:

NSWeedPriorityWorksheet_2021_Vegetables
NSPathologyWorksheet_2021_Vegetables
NSEntomologyWorksheet_2021_Vegetables

As always, any grower is welcome to attend, so if you know of someone who would like to attend please share this with them. If you can’t make the meeting, but have critical pest issues and any potential solutions for consideration at the meeting, please email them to rmadden@perennia.ca

The selected priorities will then be submitted on behalf of the province and used in ranking the national priorities. Here is the meeting info:

Vegetables Minor Use Priorities – Wednesday, November 17
Zoom link: https://perennia.zoom.us/j/88673369030
Passcode:  031801