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Had an agriculture biologist form the county Ag department up today for a tour. They are working on nursery guidelines as well as a cannabis specific IPM program for next year and wanting input as well as information about the industry. An sustainable (aka organic) certification program for Mendocino is in the works as well. The details still need to be ironed out and I would want to see the specific guidelines before we signed up, but by next year we might be able to have an official certification for organic, Mendocino grown cannabis which is pretty cool.
I can take any pests and bugs I find now down to the Ag Department for identification and advise on how to deal with them, which is going to prove to be invaluable I think. They can even send in bugs to state sponsored labs for analysis for me too. Having an trained, professionally educated biologist who specializes in entomology to consult with will be a powerful tool. I think a lot of pests get misidentified which results in incorrect pest control management. For example the guy we had up today told me that they have yet to see a documented case of broad mites or russet mites in the county. Yet I head countless stories about how both borads and russets are everywhere this year. Makes me wonder if that is really what is affecting people's gardens or if people are not correctly identifying their pests (personally I have never seen either broads or russets here either).
I can take any pests and bugs I find now down to the Ag Department for identification and advise on how to deal with them, which is going to prove to be invaluable I think. They can even send in bugs to state sponsored labs for analysis for me too. Having an trained, professionally educated biologist who specializes in entomology to consult with will be a powerful tool. I think a lot of pests get misidentified which results in incorrect pest control management. For example the guy we had up today told me that they have yet to see a documented case of broad mites or russet mites in the county. Yet I head countless stories about how both borads and russets are everywhere this year. Makes me wonder if that is really what is affecting people's gardens or if people are not correctly identifying their pests (personally I have never seen either broads or russets here either).