OSU Extension collaborates with Oregon’s Soil and Water Conservation Districts and watershed councils to develop the series to best address natural resources concerns in the local area.
Melissa Fery |
Apr 2024 |
Impact story
Credit Oregon Department of Agriculture (Cropped from original)
When growing degree-days indicated that local grasshoppers were reaching concerning stages of maturity, Extension notified local landowners of the upcoming window of opportunity to deploy grasshopper suppression methods.
The Coffee Hour conversations attracted 37-61 people each week, including farmers who manage over 34,500 acres and agronomists who make crop management recommendations on over 209,000 acres.
The Environmental Protection Agency recently banned the insecticide chlorpyrifos due to concern over the chemical’s neurological impacts on humans, so Oregon's grass seed industry needs immediate solutions for insect control.
Extension collaborated to develop a new protocol for cabbage maggot control after the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of chlorpyrifos to treat food crops.
Slugs – which damage both agricultural crops and gardens – are highly attracted to bread dough, meaning that the simple food could be used as a nontoxic bait for trapping the pests.