GrowON Webinar: Planning Your Spring IPM Program with Ontario’s Crop Protection Hub!

Still unfamiliar with Ontario’s Crop Protection Hub (fondly referred to as “Crop Hub”) and want to know more about it? Then join me (the Greenhouse Floriculture IPM Specialist) and Cara McCreary (Greenhouse Vegetable IPM Specialist) for a LIVE demonstration Thursday, Dec. 12 at noon! This demo will be applicable to greenhouse vegetable, floriculture growers. Nursery crop growers that grow crops in greenhouses may also find this useful.

During this webinar, we’ll walk you through examples on how to:

  • Quickly access rates and REIs of greenhouse pest-control products
  • Compare efficacies of pesticides and fungicides for Ontario pests
  • Look up compatibility of chemical products with natural enemies
  • Access the legal label easily for more infomation

Read on for more details about this webinar.

Upcoming Webinar on Crop Hub:

What: Planning your spring IPM program with Ontario’s Crop Protection Hub

Who: Sarah Jandricic (Greenhouse Floriculture IPM Specialist for OMAFA) and Cara McCreary (Greenhouse Vegetable IPM Specialist). We’ll also have 2 special guests on hand: Cassie Russell (Nursery and Landscape Specialist for OMAFA) to help answer questions about what the nursery crop module will look like, and Nicole Berardi, Project Lead for Crop Hub, who can help answer technical questions.

Description: This webinar will be a live demo, illustrating how Crop Hub is a useful tool to easily look up products to help plan a comprehensive IPM program in spring crops and beyond. We encourage everyone to follow along with us in real time, so you can become familiar with the look and feel of the Hub. Relevant examples to floriculture and vegetable crops will be given, and we’ll go over key features. We’ll also have a Q&A period where we ask YOU what features you’d find useful as this tool continues to evolve.

Time: Thursday, December 12 from 12-1:15 pm

Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom

More info: This webinar will be recorded, but you’ll get the best experience if you follow along with us and our examples, and ask questions as you go!



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