If you flash back to last week’s TAg post, you’ll see our side of the story — how TAg teams provide hands-on help to growers for a host of pest (and profit) issues. But what do growers say? Here’s a small sample of the pleased comments we’ve received over the years:
How TAg has made you a better manager of your crops?
- Brings to the forefront upcoming pest problems.
- Made you go out and look for problems in the field before they became big problems and too late to do nay help.
- Better disease and insect control.
- It made me more aware of how important crop health relates to forage quality.
TAg was in its late teens when we added a new and booming crop in NY: soybeans. But the principles (and the testimonial)) stayed pretty much the same. Photo courtesy NYS IIPM.
How TAg has made your farming operation more profitable?
- Less pesticides, better yields.
- Savings in spray and higher quality crops.
- More feed value/acre with lower investment.
- Given more options for pest control.
- Increased my awareness of crop damage and how to control it.
What did you like most about TAg?
- Small size of groups, opportunity to talk about various issues throughout the growing season.
- I can get better quality crops by acting quickly to avoid loss.
- Helped me better understand soils and the importance of rotating crops.
- Showed me how much I don’t know and how important it is to keep up with information.
- Looking at other farmers and different situations of planting and pest management opens your eyes to other ways of doing things.
- The hands on experience means a lot.
- Helped me better understand soils and the importance of rotating crops.
IPM TAg Teams: A Quarter Century Later, What’s Old Is New Again