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Cannabis growers across the country report that pest management continues to be a top cultivation challenge, according to Cannabis Business Times “State of the Industry” research data. Despite stringent protocols and dialed-in integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, fungus gnats, russet mites, spider mites, thrips and aphids continue to plague even the most careful cultivation businesses. Raymond Cloyd, Ph.D., professor and extension specialist with Kansas State University’s Department of Entomology, works with growers to remediate outbreaks and get successful IPM approaches in place. Cloyd will return to Cannabis Conference this year to detail the challenges growers are facing throughout the U.S. and how they both addressed pests and implemented programs to prevent them from coming back. In this session, attendees will walk away with:
- strategies for successful biological control programs to combat the most prevalent pests,
- various solutions to control pests, including biopesticides and their viability in managing insect and/or mite pests in cannabis.
