Soil fumigation, like this broadcast application, now requires that fumigation management plans be developed to include a long list of components. The soil fumigation landscape has changed ­dramatically in the last few years. Effective postplant nematicides have been lost, use of methyl bromide as a soil fumigant is on the way out, and now, soil fumigation in general will be more restrictive as new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations begin to take hold. Dr. Inga Zasada, nematologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service’s Horticultural Crops Research Unit in Corvallis, Oregon, works to develop sustainable plant-parasitic nematode management […]