We have been running a biocontrol program for nearly seven years, and more growers should try out these techniques. This article gives you a good feel about the nature of that transition. As we have mentioned before, the switch is not easy; but it can be done. To be successful, you need an altitude change towards bugs and their role in the larger production plan in both the staff and management.

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Bear in mind, we are major production facility with large deadlines to meet. We can’t keep our heads in an ideological cloud - we plant, we grow and we ship. Like other big places, we have costs to control, quality to maintain and zero tolerance for bugs reaching the customer. However, we found that biocontrols do work for large volume operations like ours, so long as they are integrated into the core of pest management control and not treated as an outside process looking in.

For any of our customers, or competitors, who want to learn more about biocontrols; we are more than happy to share the information. Our growers are available to discuss the program at the trade shows we attend or you can give us a call if you have questions. Of course, the best is a site visit to Leola, PA, on a Thursday where you can see the program in action.

Sometimes a picture shows more than a thousand words, and the photographer Jeremy Hess did a good job of covering a rather abstract assignment. We’ve included a gallery of his work with captions to explain the nuances of what he is covering.