Associate Director of Agricultural IPM, Vegetable IPM Coordinator, NYS Integrated Pest Management
In collaboration with colleagues at Cornell, throughout the Northeast and beyond, Abby promotes and supports the use of integrated pest management practices with conventional and organic vegetable farmers through a combination of applied research, demonstration projects, educational programs and networking. Abby has provided hundreds of workshops and trained thousands of growers.
NYSIPMâs vegetable specialists are conducting innovative research designed to mitigate these challenges. Our research is examining whether beneficial nematodes and fungi, applied directly to soil, can reduce striped cucumber beetle populations...