MSU Extension Ag Alerts

Save the Date!  2019 Crop and Pest Management School, “Small Grains”, Monday January 14^th – Wednesday January 16^th, 2019 at Montana State University, Ballroom D - Student Union.  See attached file.

Fatalities spurred EPA and product registrants to implement new phosphine fumigant restrictions since 2010. Though reduced, ongoing fatalities have occurred, including one Utah adult in 2018, and four children in Texas, 2017. The Montana State University Pesticide Education Program is offering multiple trainings in Montana to assist applicators in effectively managing pests with phosphine fumigants, while using them in a safe manner.

A Section 18 emergency label approves EsplAnade® 200 SC for controlling ventenata and medusahead on rangeland, pasture, and CRP in Montana. Ventenata and medusahead an invasive winter annual grasses that have been increasing in Montana.

The Montana State University Pesticide Education Program is offering a pesticide education train-the-trainer opportunity November 14th and 15th at the Holiday Inn Express (2305 Catron Street), Bozeman, MT. Attendees of this program can attain 4 commercial/government recertification credits in the categories of dealer, ag plant pest, right-of-way, demonstration and research, and regulatory weed pest.  This is a unique opportunity targeting Montana's pesticide trainers.