# Tomato IPM Study Group: Pre Season Topics Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-grower-7685078/tomato-ipm-study-group-pre-season-topics Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-grower-7685078/tomato-ipm-study-group-pre-season-topics.md Podcast: [Serious Grower](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-grower-7685078) Published: 2026-05-25T11:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://seriousgrower.podbean.com/e/tomato-ipm-study-group-pre-season-topics/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/262sua4g4kww9xhf/019_PreSeason_Tomato_IPM_Study_Group9xsfp.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/serious-grower-7685078/episodes/tomato-ipm-study-group-pre-season-topics Duration seconds: 1979 ## Resource Do you want to know more about where your tomatoes come from and the experts who are supporting our vegetable farmers to grow us the freshest, tastiest tomatoes possible, using the most economically & environmentally sustainable practices? Watch this video of large-scale processing tomato harvest. So neat! This discussion includes many pre-season topics including the economics of reflective mulch for management of pests & disease (including thrips that vector tomato spotted wilt virus) as well as an emerging pest impacting high tunnel tomato production, potato aphid, Macrosiphum euphorbiae. For the stone cold nerds, here's how to identify this aphid. Special thanks to Amanda Quadrel & Maria Cramer at Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Samantha Willden at Cornell AgriTech. Learn more about how federal and state funding provide expert support to our farmers to make pest management as environmentally and economically sustainable as possible by using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools & tactics. Music: With the Homies, Its a Good Day - Sarah the Illstrumentalist; Karmalot - Janset; Machete Dream - Speedy the Spider ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/serious-grower-7685078/episodes/tomato-ipm-study-group-pre-season-topics/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-grower-7685078/tomato-ipm-study-group-pre-season-topics.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.