An areawide effort to control codling moth without organophosphate chemicals has resulted in better control of both codling moth and pear psylla as well as lower pesticide costs for a group of pear growers in Hood River, Oregon. Many of them are no longer applying pesticides for either pest during the growing season. The project was launched in 2007 with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant and has been managed by the Columbia Gorge Fruit Growers Association working with Oregon State University faculty. It started out with 11 growers on more than 600 acres in the Dee Flat area of […]