Though a no-organophosphate codling moth control program is more expensive at first, it’s not long before growers are saving money, says Bruce Kiyokawa, a pest control advisor with Chamberlin Distributing Company in Hood River, Oregon. Kiyokawa works with several pear growers who are participating in an areawide codling moth program in Hood River. The first year of using mating disruption makes pest control more expensive, but the second year it’s a wash, he says, because growers are not applying as many pesticides. By year three, they start saving money. “I think probably the impact of not spraying is getting to […]