Small Fruit Production EQIP Programs
NRCS & PA IPM programming in Support of Small Fruit IPM in Pennsylvania
An ecological approach to managing pests in agricultural crops is known as Integrated Pest Management (IPM). IPM involves compiling detailed and timely information about a crop and its pests to ensure that pest management decisions are economically, environmentally, and socially sound.
Grape berry moth (GBM) is a key pest of grape in eastern North America, and can cause severe losses in both wine and juice vineyards. The elimination or additional re-entry restrictions on many organophosphate insecticides in grapes by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) has led to the adoption of relatively cheap but equally broadspectrum pyrethroid insecticides.
