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Pesticide Mixture Impact Study

3 April 2013
Grower News

USA Study on Multiple Pesticide Use in Floriculture

PMAC recently published a link to a new study ex Kansas State University looking at the relationship between multiple pesticide cocktails and pesticide efficacy including a specific look at the results with Western Flower Thrips. The study had several aspects to the investigation including plant toxicity, interaction assessment and pesticide combination overall efficacy

The study needs to be taken in its full context, to read the study visit http://www.endowment.org/images/stories/research/215research.pdf