Early-bird pricing ends October 23 - have you secured your spot? Join us November 3 in Guelph ON for the 2026 Ontario Pest Management Conference, where we'll explore The Next IPM Toolbox: Finding Tomorrow's Solutions. With active ingredients disappearing from the crop protection toolbox, what comes next? This year's plenary speakers will explore innovative approaches shaping the future of pest management: Josh Mosiondz (OMAFA) - The evolution of pesticides Doug Baumann (V

Can AI help us find tomorrow's crop protection solutions faster? As pest management challenges grow more complex and the toolbox of available active ingredients continues to shrink, the pressure to develop effective new solutions is increasing. But innovation isn't just about what we discover - it's also about how efficiently we get there. At the 2026 Ontario Pest Management Conference, Dr Ravi Ramachandran with Syngenta Canada will explore how artificial intelligence (A), a

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

The Ontario Pest Management Conference is hosting its first winter webinar, continuing the conversation from our fall conference: using drones to deploy pest predators. This free event will take place on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, from 1:00 to 2:30 pm EST. What You Will Learn Dr. Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris, a Research Entomologist with the US Department of Agriculture, will lead the conversation, "It's Raining Bugs! Benefits & Challenges of Deploying Pest Predators By Drone" . H

Pest control in large-acre organic crop systems faces a major challenge: how to apply natural enemies evenly and efficiently across vast fields. Traditional methods require significant labor to release these beneficial insects or predators, which limits their use. To address this, growers in Washington State have started using drones to distribute pest predators in organic apple orchards. This new approach could transform integrated pest management (IPM) by making biocontrol

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