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Develop new chemical and biological controls for disease detection, control and eradication.
Develop a comprehensive program in the state of Michigan to control the spread of Palmar amaranth. Such a program must address and control introduction of seed in contaminated product imports, control and eradication of existing infestations and a means of addressing seed spread from existing weed populations. Any program should include an extensive education component to allow producers to have the best information to prevent and control the weed on their property.
Enhance the use of natural plant pest predator species or bio-controls after thoroughly reviewing the potential consequences to the environment. Determine the impact of emerald ash borer on healthy natural forest stands that includes an evaluation of methods to control or suppress emerald ash borer to manageable levels.
Address viable control methods for, but not limited to, phytophthora capsici, downy mildew, overall spruce decline and armillaria root fungus. Address replant issues in the asparagus industry.
Additionally, we support:
Indemnification for losses of farm income when agricultural commodities or products are impounded, farms are quarantined or sales are restricted in the public interest.
The supplier being held responsible for compensation for all losses due to imported plants with diseases.
Zero interest/fixed loan or direct and/or indirect compensation to producers for sudden market loss due to invasive species including but not limited to Spotted Wing Drosophila and hemlock woolly adelgid.
The concept of a zero interest/fixed loan program to assist producers in the event of a sudden market loss due to invasive species.
Testing for vomitoxin in corn field trials. and We encourage ethanol plant operators to spot-check for vomitoxin in corn entering the plant and Dried Distillers Grains leaving the plant.
An industry-driven comprehensive rewrite of Michigan’s Plant Pest Protection Act.
Educational efforts to help producers and consumers understand the importance of their roles in preventing the spread of plant pests and diseases (i.e., don’t move firewood as an effort to control Emerald Ash Borer).
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