What if the next generation of crop protection could be designed with precision at the molecular level? At the 2026 Ontario Pest Management Conference, Wayne Barton, Development & Tech Services Consultant with GreenLight Biosciences Inc., will explore one of the emerging technologies that could help shape the future of the IPM toolbox: RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi uses targeted delivery of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to interfere with specific biological processes in pests.

What if the answer to a shrinking pesticide toolbox isn't finding more active ingredients - but getting more from the ones we already have? At the 2026 Ontario Pest Management Conference, Dr. Doug Baumann, Chief Technology Officer at Vive Crop Protection, will explore a different approach to crop protection innovation: development over discovery. As active ingredients are lost through use restrictions, resistance and obsolescence, bringing a completely new active ingredient t

What does the future of pest management look like when some of the tools that once defined production have been replaced, restricted, refined, or paired with data in ways that have changed the toolbox? Before looking ahead, it helps to look back. At the 2026 Ontario Pest Management Conference, Josh Mosiondz, Provincial Minor Use Coordinator with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Agribusiness, will kick off our plenary speaker series with a look at how pesticide use

Join us at the 2024 OPMC to hear how researchers are exploring the possibilities of AI and robotics to control weeds.