The 2021 Industry Technology Session gives specialty crop commodity groups and growers the opportunity to hear from companies about their latest tools for pest management. This year’s event will be held via Zoom. Registration is required. Participants will receive Zoom log-in information once registration is completed. The event will start at 11 a.m. EDT. Visit our event page to learn more and register.

The IR-4 Project operates as a unique partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) – both the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) (formerly called the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service or CSREES), and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the State Agricultural Experiment Stations (SAES), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agrochemical industry, commodity groups, and growers. In recent years, additional partnerships have been formed with USDA- Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) which supports international specialty crop export activities, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to work on selected invasive species, and the Department of Defense’s Deployed Warfighter Protection Program (DWFP) to provide regulatory support for public health pesticides.