Our PNW TELONE™ Specialists Robin Matson and Dusty Allen are onsite at the WA/OR Potato Conference in Kennewick, WA. to show how TELONE™ can set you up for a successful potato season.

Potato growers across the PNW know prepping the soil with TELONE™ ahead of planting lessens nematode pressure, creating a zone of protection where developing roots can establish into healthy plants.

NC State Extension recently released its Pest Management Strategic Plan for Strawberries in the Southeast including Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

This detailed plan is a great resource for strawberry growers, giving detailed information on common pests, weeds, pathogens, and best practices.

The guide goes on to say that fumigation with chloropicrin and TELONE™ is an effective way to manage destructive plant parasitic nematodes. "1,3-dichloropropene (Telone II or EC) is mostly used against PPNs. Pic-Clor 60 (chloropicrin + 1,3-dichloropropene) is commonly used by growers in the southern states to mitigate most soil-borne pests, including insects, weeds, PPNs, and pathogens."

Teleos Ag is proud to be a member of the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission and support their mission to increase sweetpotato production and consumption.

NC farmers know that nematodes are a common pest in sweetpotato-growing areas. Nematodes are typically found in coarse-textured soils, with root-knot nematodes being the predominant species, and Guava Root Knot nematodes (Meloidogyne enterolobii) being particularly destructive. Thankfully, growers have a powerful nematode management solution with TELONE™.

Teleos was at the Southeast Regional Fruit & Vegetable Conference in Savannah, GA, last week with a full team onsite, including our Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson, Southeast TELONE™ Specialist Chris Hays, Stewardship Manager Justin H., USA Sales Manager Bruce Jacobs, and our President John Godbehere.

Growers across the southeast know and trust TELONE™ to be the world's best defense against nematodes in a wide range of specialty crops. Using TELONE™ to prep the soil ahead of planting helps lessen nematode pressure, leading to healthier plants, improved quality, and increased yields. Remember, there's no coming back from a poor start!

With the year coming to a close, now's the time to start thinking about your orchard replant! Before you get started, be sure to check out our "Managing Replant Problem & Nematodes" PDF, available for download on the link below.

In this PDF Teleos covers the orchard replant problem, also called replant disease. Orchard replant disease is the unfortunate result of planting trees and vines into soil where nematodes and soilborne diseases are present.

Tree nuts/fruits planted immediately after tree nuts/fruits commonly experience this problem. Grapes planted after tree nuts/fruits also experience the replant problem.

Fortunately for growers, using TELONE™ ahead of orchard replant helps manage destructive nematodes and prunus replant disease. By prepping the soil ahead of transplanting rootstock, young roots are able to establish into healthier trees, free of nematode pressure. The results are larger trunk diameters, larger canopies, increased marketable yields, and improved quality.

Remember, there's no coming back from a poor start—especially in orchards!

The National Onion Association's Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to stay up-to-date on industry trends, attend educational talks, and go offsite for field tours. In the pictures below, Dusty and Chris visited Vidalia onion fields and from Bland Farms and G&R Farms, as well as an onion packing house

Dr. Huckaba had help from the Teleos crew, including our USA Sales Manager Bruce Jacobs, Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson, and USA Credit Manager Bill Reinbott with the sweetpotato field trials in Eureka, NC.

Dr. Adrienne Gorny from NC State Extension and consultant Chris Pierce were also onsite helping harvest, sort and count.

The photos show the grower plowing up sweetpotatoes, then harvesting and sorting.

The test treatments included TELONE™ II as well as TELONE™/Chloropicrin combinations. The results showed that TELONE™ provided very good control of the devastating guava root-knot nematode. We look forward to sharing the results of these trials in the coming months.

Teleos works with a third-party bio-analytical testing company called Eurofins Métodos Servicios Agrícolas, and they visited several greenhouse trials in Murcia, Spain. The Eurofins team we’re working with is led by Miguel Angel Diez. Miguel showed us around his greenhouse facility where several ongoing crop protection trials are currently underway, including trials with TELONE™, Chloropicrin, contact nematicides, and soil solarization.

Teleos Specialists Robin Matson and Dusty Allen were onsite at the Pacific Northwest Vegetable Association Annual Conference & Trade Show in Kennewick, WA. The Pacific Northwest Vegetable Association is dedicated to education, research, production, promotion, and representation in the Northwest vegetable industry and markets.

We're proud to be members of the PNVA and lunch sponsors of this event!

Growers in South Carolina are prepping their peach orchards now, ahead of spring plantings in April. While growers do have nematode-resistant rootstock options, nematodes are still a huge threat for peaches in South Carolina with the first report of the Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne floridensis infecting Guardian® Peach rootstock. (Read More)

Teleos has been on the move! Recently, our EMEA Sales Manager JB Gibbs, President John Godbehere, Director of R&D Dr. Randy (RM) Huckaba, and Stewardship Manager Justin H. visited Europe to see our TELONE™ packaging facilities and check in on greenhouse trials.

TeamTeleos is in Nashville at the 70th Annual SOUTHERN CROP PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION annual meeting. We're proud to be gold sponsors of the event!

Teleos President John Godbehere, USA Sales Manager Bruce Jacobs, and Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson are attending seminars, meeting growers, and learning about the key issues affecting the ag industry in the southeast.

We are proud members of the SCPA and appreciate all of the work they do to support our ag industry. We're already looking forward to next year's event!