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Expert Spotlight: Grant Hansen
Grant Hansen - New Hill, NC If you’ve ever wondered how Certis Biologicals connects real-world grower needs with smart, strategic product decisions, much ...
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Expert Spotlight: Stephen Pierson
Stephen Pierson - Columbia, MD If you’ve ever wondered how Certis Biologicals turns complex science into reliable, effective biological solutions, much of ...
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Expert Spotlight: Celeste Whitehead
Celeste Whitehead - Columbia, MD If you’ve ever wondered how Certis Biologicals keeps its operations running smoothly and its leadership supported, you’ll ...
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Expert Spotlight: Tommy Van Groningen
Tommy Van Groningen - Ripon, CA If you’ve ever wondered how Certis Biologicals supports growers across California and Nevada with sustainable crop ...
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Expert Spotlight: Katie Umana
Katie Umana - Columbia, MD If you’ve ever wondered how Certis Biologicals brings sustainable crop protection solutions to growers around the world, you’ll ...
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Expert Spotlight: Karly Regan
Karly Regan - Smithsburg, MD If you’ve ever wondered how biological products are tested, proven, and trusted for growers in the field, you’ll find the ...
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Expert Spotlight: Gillian Dubin
Gillian Dubin - Ellicott City, MD If you’ve ever wondered how a company keeps track of its story, its milestones, data, studies, and identity, you’ll find ...
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Expert Spotlight: Mohammad Hefnawi
Mohammad Hefnawi - Wasco, CA At Certis Biologicals, every product we ship reflects the work of dedicated individuals across our organization. One of those ...
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Your 2025 Guide to Fire Blight Prevention and Control
By The Certis Team Fire blight is a destructive bacterial disease that can spread rapidly through apple and pear orchards, causing significant damage if ...
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Four Good Reasons to Incorporate Biopesticides In Your Crop Management Strategy
By the Certis Field Development Team
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The Secret to Thriving Crops: Unlocking the Power of Healthy Soil
By The Certis Team Soil is the foundation of crops, but does it really make a difference for overall crop yield and health? Sustainable practices truly ...
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A Guide to Effective Resistance Management with Certis’ Virus Portfolio
By Scott Ockey, Senior Field Development Manager, PNW, and Richard Kelly, Senior Regional Manager, PNW
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Overcoming Challenges to Increase Tree Nut Yield
By The Certis Team The United States is the second largest producer of tree nuts worldwide, and the main types of tree nuts produced include almonds, ...
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The Long-Term Effects of Nematode Damage on Permanent Crops
By Scott Ockey The thought of nematodes might send shivers down your spine, just as some send shivers down to the roots of your crops. There are thousands ...
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Soil Nematodes: Good, Bad or Both
By Certis Biologicals Nematodes are well known as the grower’s invisible menace. But what are they, really? Meet the microscopic worms that live in your ...
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Lifecycles of Nematodes: Why timing matters in protecting your crops
Written by: Karla Medina Soil nematodes are almost invisible, yet highly important when it comes to crop health. There are good and bad nematodes, and ...
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Integrated Nematode Management 101 for Potato Growers
By The Certis Team Potato growers are no strangers to sneaky nematodes lurking in the soil, waiting to feed on roots. Many growers already have plant ...
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Grow Your Crop Protection Toolbox: New Modes of Action Fight Resistance
By Nick Vandervort, Midwestern Field Development Manager Protecting crops isn’t easy, especially when pests can develop resistance to a grower’s go-to ...
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A Proactive Approach To Greenhouse Crop Protection
By: Jim Black, Business Director If there’s a way to keep pests and diseases from challenging your plants from the start, why wait until there’s an issue ...
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The Future of Biologicals: Transforming Crop Protection in Agriculture
By Amy O’Shea, President and CEO
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3 Ways to Implement IPM for Fire Blight in Orchards
By The Certis Team Fire blight can be extremely destructive to apple and pear orchards if left unchecked, and it is a disease that is multi-faceted and ...
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Grow Your Protection Toolbox: Put your Plants to Work Naturally
Effectively protecting crops isn’t easy, especially when the tools that have been available for decades are being lost through increased scrutiny, ...
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How to Spot and Prevent Downy and Powdery Mildew
By Scott Ockey Identifying diseases in your crops is vital to protecting them as they grow to prevent loss and increase yield. Although the onset of ...
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Walnut Blight: Detection and Prevention
By The Certis Team Walnut blight can be detrimental to crop production if the conditions are ideal for the spread of disease. Unfortunately, blight varies ...
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Grow Your Crop Protection Toolbox: Enhance Sustainability
The concept of sustainability has attained a high profile in agriculture, but the term means different things to different people and some aspects are ...
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Fight Fire Blight in Orchards: Disease Formation, Signs, and Symptoms
As many growers know and some have unfortunately experienced, fire blight can destroy an entire orchard in a single growing season. Even if you catch it ...
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Fighting the Blight: Understanding the Fire Blight Disease Cycle
By Scott Ockey As many growers know and some have unfortunately experienced, fire blight can destroy an entire orchard in a single growing season. Even if ...
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Overcoming Seasonal Obstacles That Impact Grape Yield
By Certis Biologicals Diseases in fruit are inevitable – from weather to environmental issues that arise, grape crops face a multitude of threats, but ...
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Disease Management for Grapes: Symptoms and Solutions
By Certis Biologicals Grape crops face a variety of diseases that can appear due to seasonal and environmental changes, and understanding the symptoms can ...
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Your success is our success...
By John Wood, Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley, Certis Biologicals At Certis Biologicals, our experienced teams, from the top leadership to our ...
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Why Bio? Because bio has your back in tough situations
By Taylor Aguilera, Regional Manager Northern California, Certis Biologicals Right now, I believe that agriculture is facing one of its biggest challenges ...
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Why Bio? Because protecting the future is important to us all
By Curt Nelson, Regional Manager, CA San Joaquin Valley, Certis Biologicals As growers and producers, we know that how we grow matters as much as what we ...
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Why Bio? Because biologicals meet you where you are...
By John Wood, Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley, Certis Biologicals I’ve been in this industry my whole life, having grown up in agriculture and ...
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Why Bio? Because it’s what we do best...
By Ask the Expert Team, Certis Biologicals As we have done for the past several years during the dormant season, your Certis Biologicals Ask the Expert ...
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Protection that’s more powerful, pound for pound
By Taylor Aguilera, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Northern California One of the things I love most about permanent tree plantings and trees as food ...
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It’s time for post-harvest chores
By Curt Nelson, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA San Joaquin Valley Your orchards have been in full-swing all growing season long, with lots of ...
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Get back to your roots
By John Wood, Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley As you are finishing up harvest, your trees are going through a unique process called root flush. ...
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Don’t let nematodes win...
By Taylor Aguilera, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Northern California This year’s tree nut growing season has seen enough challenges already. We ...
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Pests are eating your profits!
By Curt Nelson, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA San Joaquin Valley We are in the final stretch of the tree nut growing season here in California ...
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Get ready!
By John Wood, Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley With just a few short weeks until harvest is upon us, taking the time to do orchard floor prep now ...
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Double your protection-double your benefit...
By Taylor Aguilera, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Northern California We are quickly heading into harvest, and as we make our final sprints to the ...
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Introducing... the New Certis!
By The Certis Ask the Expert Team It’s not often that we join together and bring all of your experts together for one column, but this is such an exciting ...
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The benefits of bio during hull split
By Curt Nelson, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA San Joaquin Valley We are nearing the end of our tree nut growing season with hull-split just ...
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Attack of the earwigs...
John Wood, Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley I always like to see acres of young tree plantings as I drive around the San Joaquin Valley visiting ...
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Bait back...
Taylor Aguilera, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Northern California We all know that consumers are waiting on you to harvest nut crops so they can ...
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Take a good look...
Curt Nelson, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA San Joaquin Valley In my last message to you, I shared a bit about the importance of early scouting. ...
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Pack your toolbox
John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley The beginning of each new growing season is full of anticipation and excitement ...
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A woman’s place... in agriculture
Taylor Aguilera, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, Northern California For many reasons, I have a special place in my heart for women who are part of ...
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An ounce of prevention...
Curt Nelson, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA San Joaquin Valley It may be technically still winter here in California, but with things moving ...
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Looking ahead...
Taylor Aguilera, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, Northern California I am excited to join the Certis Biologicals Ask the Expert team for tree nut ...
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Introducing…
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley What better way to celebrate a new year than by bringing together a small group ...
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Copper and Mancozeb: Reliable Tools in Agricultural Production
By Jeremy Adamson, Product Manager, Certis Biologicals Copper and Mancozeb are among the most widely used bactericides and fungicides in agricultural ...
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The help you need now...
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley December has rolled around again, and I am happy to offer an official ...
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Let’s get social
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley We all know that the work out in California tree nut orchards never ends, but ...
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Make it count with ManKocide
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley It seems like quite a long time ago that I was sharing the news of a new label ...
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There is only one Kocide
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley We’ve been talking for quite a bit about the importance of finishing out this ...
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An introduction to Bacillus thuringiensis bioinsecticides
By Mike Dimock, Ph.D./ Vice President, Field Development/ Certis Biologicals, L.L.C. Bt: The first commercial bioinsecticide Discovered at the turn of the ...
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How can we help?
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals' Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Every time I have the honor of being your “expert” in this column, I try to ...
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Do your chores...
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley I’m certain that I wasn’t the only kid among us who had to hear the daily ...
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Fight nematodes now
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley For some, harvest may look like the end of the growing season, but we know that ...
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Make the most of harvest 2020
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley When it is time to harvest a huge crop like we have this year, things can get ...
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Silicon undeniably supports plant health
By Wendy L. Zellner, Ph. D., The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH Silicon plays a critical role in plant health. Plants cultivated in limited silicon ...
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The product you’ve been waiting for…
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley For the better part of a year, I’ve been anxiously awaiting the time when I ...
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During hull-split, count on Certis Biologicals!
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager We are right in the middle of hull-split applications right now, with everyone pushing hard for ...
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In hull split - bring it with bio
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley With an initial forecast of 3.0 billion pounds, California almond production ...
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Fight resistance in your hull-split program
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Here in sunny California, we are a few weeks away from a truly exciting time in ...
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Activating your plants’ natural defense system to guard against diseases
By Certis Biologicals Field Development Team During these challenging times, we extend our thanks to all of the agricultural professionals working to ...
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There’s no De(baiting) the power of Seduce
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley If you had the opportunity to read last week’s Ask the Expert column, you saw ...
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Trial and error...
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley In the world of agriculture, don’t we sometimes feel as though we are living by ...
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Enough pressure already!
By John Wood, Certis USA Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley With everything going on in the world around us, it would be nice if our orchards ...
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Thoughts on being "essential" and what to do now to protect crops
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley What a time we are living in these days? In many of our lifetimes, I don’t ...
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Hemp: A Growing Market With Many Questions
By Jeremy Adamson, Product Manager, Certis Biologicals The Emerging Market A new Federal Farm Bill legislation comes along every five to six years, most ...
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Put your trees to work...
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley There may be a lot of things going on around us these days, but our trees are ...
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Let’s get blooming
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Bloom has really roared in like a lion this year. Everyone out there is talking ...
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Right now, let’s beat the blast
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Ideal conditions for bacterial blast to grow include cold temperatures, wet and ...
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A trusted new solution… Just for YOU!
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley We’re always excited to bring new solutions into the market that you can add to ...
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Bacteriophages: Advancing Agriculture’s Crop Protection Future, Today
By Jeremy Adamson, Product Manager, Certis Biologicals Bacteriophages, or “phages”, are the most numerous beneficial viral organisms on the planet. It is ...
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Get smart…
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Those who subscribe to this column have heard me reiterate how dormancy for ...
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Out with the Old...
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Here’s to hoping that Santa and his reindeer deliver you some brand new pruning ...
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Don't delay during dormancy
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley The UC-IPM classifies dormancy as the stage when leaf fall begins and ending ...
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Biologicals: A Logical Solution for Today’s Complex Agricultural Challenges
By Mike Allan, Vice President, North America, Certis Biologicals Organics and biopesticides…A Rising Tide Consumers are more educated than they’ve ever ...
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Giving thanks….
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley November is always a reflective time for everyone. Everywhere we turn there are ...
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Recommended Online Resources For Tree Nut Growers
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley My friends, you all know the value that the World Wide Web has for us. After ...
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Ask the Expert…now you can!
By John Wood, Certis BiologicalsRegional Manager, CA South Central Valley I’ve been taking this “Ask the Expert” task to heart a lot lately and it ...
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A Cajun in California…thoughts on a lifetime of agriculture
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley What stress it is to author a column every two weeks that’s titled “Ask the ...
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Combatting Resistance and the Future of Organic Herbicides
By Scott Ockey, Western US Field Development Manger, Certis Biologicals Herbicides have been under increased scrutiny with many of the challenges ...
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Unleash the power of Kocide® during dormancy
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager, CA South Central Valley Our trees may be approaching their dormant stage, but tree nut growers know ...
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Shake, shake, shake
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Harvest is here for most all of our California almond growers. Pistachio folks will come along with ...
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Hitting hard during hull-split
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager We are thick in the middle of hull-split sprays here in California as almond growers are putting in ...
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Let’s declare our freedom!
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager A little like our Founding Fathers, who faced their own “taxing” issues back in 1776, tree nut growers ...
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Harvest is in our sights
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager In the nut business, staying ahead is the name of the game. If you are in ag, then you know the business ...
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Double down to protect your crops before harvest
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager We are in the final stretches of our 2019 crop season and I am hearing cautious optimism out there in ...
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Ants are coming for your nuts…
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Pavement ants are a mere 0.13 inches long and their cousin, the southern fire ant measures between 0.07 ...
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Scout, Scout, Scout
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager The good thing about many of the pests that affect your crops is that they don’t show up in the dark and ...
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Control spring pests
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager The earwigs this year are as plentiful as ever. A few days ago, an acquaintance sent me a video clip ...
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New insect control, PTB and Nematodes
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Spring is in full swing and so are the pests that come with it. Peach twig borer, (PTB), nematodes and ...
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Watch for worms, nematodes, earwigs and disease
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager It is the second day of a new season and the weather is warming up quickly. This means spring chores ...
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Wet weather makes spring disease monitoring critical
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager This is the wettest winter we’ve had in recent memory. This means that disease pressure can be heavy and ...
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Time to monitor for peach twig borers
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager The time for peach twig borer (PTB) is almost here and scouting is in order. PTB overwinter as first or ...
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Prepare for spring disease pressures now
By John Wood, Certis Biologicals Regional Manager Spring is just six weeks away and with it comes typical seasonal disease pressures. Now is the time to ...
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