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Delegates also called for adequate resources to study control and monitoring of the devastating Apple Clearwing Moth and they resolved that there should be automatic registration in Canada for new products registered for use in the U.S. against the Spotted Wing Drosophila.


More government resources for battling SWD were also called for to develop effective monitoring and control, along with a national plant health strategy that would include a financial compensation policy for emergency plant removal orders and quarantines.


Taking such a step would encourage self-reporting of new plant diseases and help prevent the spread of them. Growers were also concerned about what some perceive as a growing threat from flocks of starlings.


Grower Allan Patton from Oliver, who is also a member of the Okanagan- Similkameen Regional District board, said someone from the starling control program should speak to the board about how the program works. “There seem to be far more starlings


around this year,” he said.


Similkameen grower Wilf Mennell agreed, saying he believes the fixed traps target juveniles instead of adults, which a different sort of trap targets. However, growers resolved that the BCFGA and regional districts should continue to support the starling control and research program.


It’s particularly important because the alternative to mitigating damage from starlings is noise-making devices, which then become a source of conflict between farms and neighbouring


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A request for adequate funding for extension programs so growers can learn about new, safer methods of crop protection, including pesticides targeted at specific pests, will go to the provincial government, which has virtually eliminated extension programs throughout the province in recent years.


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