Salinas Valley Agriculture

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Hello all! I am the new IPM Entomology Farm Advisor serving Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties. I am moving up from San Luis Obispo where I was serving as a Small Farm Advisor covering San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

The presentations from the 2022 Fall Pest Management Meeting at the Ag Center in Salinas on November 3rd are now posted on the UCCE website under the Pest Management Meetings tab on the left side of the opening page. Here is the link: https://cemonterey.ucanr.

Richard Smith1, Eric Brennan2 and Mark Lundy3 1 - University of California Cooperative Extension, Monterey County, 2 - USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Salinas, 3 University of California, Davis.

Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV) is a tospovirus spreading primarily by an insect vector, the western flower thrip. INSV is similar to other tospoviruses, including Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), Groundnut ring spot virus (GRSV), and Tomato chlorotic spot virus (TCSV).