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Providing pest management solutions for specialty crops and specialty uses.
Raleigh, N.C.
Joined April 2013
Happy Labor Day! For over 60 years, the IR-4 community has worked hard to deliver pest management tools to growers of specialty crops. This weekend, we celebrate the workers throughout the food system who help bring this healthy food to our plates.
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RT @ClinicPlant: Another successful @IR4_Project #fungicide field trial on the books! 🤓 💪🏼.#pitaya #pitahaya #dragonfruit.We are continuous….
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August 28 is the final day to register at the early bird rate for the 2025 Food Use Workshop! Sign up before midnight and save $100:. #ir4project #ir4fuw
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From bedding plants to cut flowers to trees, it's exciting to see the variety of U.S. horticultural production represented in our incoming Environmental Horticulture Grower & Extension Survey results. The deadline is 8/29—keep these submissions coming! .
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During a recent House Ag Committee hearing focused on specialty crops, Terranova Ranch Vice President Don Cameron was questioned by Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) about IR-4's role. Check out the video clip from Forbes Breaking News:.
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Look what our New Mexico researchers have bean up to this season 🫘 👀 🫘 . IR-4 State Liaison Rep & Field Research Director at @nmsu, Chanz Robbins, shares his first harvest of 2025. IR-4 will use these samples to analyze herbicide residues of a new use for dry bean producers.
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IR-4's project nomination period is open until August 25! This is our stakeholders' opportunity to nominate the project requests that you would like to see prioritized at the Food Use Workshop. Visit our website to learn more and make your nominations:.
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RT @QuesadaLabNCSU: After years of trying, our lab FINALLY has a reliable bioassay for Geotrichum sour rot in #sweetpotato. Huge thanks to….
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The @nmsu Agricultural Science Center at Los Lunas will host a chile field day on August 28. The field day will include an IR-4 update on pest management research for chile production by Chanz Robbins, IR-4 program manager at NMSU 🌶️. Register here:.
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The Food Use Workshop is just a month away! A final agenda is now available on the event web page, along with registration & hotel info. Register by 8/28 for the early bird rate:.
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RT @ClinicPlant: Touring @IR4_Project trials in #Hawaii #Honolulu - comparing notes and learning how #pesticides trials are conducted in th….
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IR-4 is gearing up for our two big priority-setting events this fall: the Food Use Workshop and the Environmental Horticulture Workshop. Registration is open for both. Learn more & register:. 🍎 FUW: 🌳 EHW:
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Our @michiganstateu field research team recently harvested blueberries and Methley plums at the Trevor Nichols Research Center. Celeste Wheeler's residue trial on Shiro plum—a yellow, Japanese variety—is coming along fruitfully, too! #ir4project
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Registration is open for the Environmental Hort Workshop! Submit a Project Clearance Request or fill out our Grower & Extension Survey to help shape conversations at the workshop—the deadline for both is 8/29. Register & learn more: #IR4project #IR4EHW
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Registration is open for IR-4's 2025 Food Use Workshop! Register by August 28 to take advantage of the early bird rate (it increases by $100 on Aug. 29):. #IR4project #IR4FUW
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Extension Assistant Professor Lorena Lopez, an #IR4Project researcher at @ncstate, is featured in a recent story from Port City Daily on a devastating #blueberry pest in NC, the #prionusbeetle. Learn more about the pest & Lorena's work here:.
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RT @ClinicPlant: Two @IR4_Project fungicide trials done! One on #postharvest #avocado and one on miracle fruit 💪🏼 @CaSendoyaC_ .Thank you t….
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Yesterday, we volunteered at @foodbankcenc. During a three-hour shift, our group packed over 10,000 pounds of cereal and potatoes for families in need. The Food Bank envisions a future where #noonegoeshungry. We do too, and we're here to help!🍎🥔🥕👩🌾🍊🫘🧃 #ir4project
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Josh Kindel represented our team this week at @American_Hort #Cultivate25. It was a delight connecting with the ornamental industry, researchers, and growers around potential collaborations. Let's keep the dialogue going at our Workshop this fall:.
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Get to know IR-4 Environmental Horticulture Program Manager, Josh Kindel, through his Q&A session with Science Communications Intern, Raven Baez:. #ir4project #peopleofIR4 #ornamentals #horticulture #environmentalhorticulture
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