Primeurs maraîchères | Market gardening news: Government support for cutting pesticide use in sweet corn

In Québec, the corn borer is sweet corn’s number one enemy. Several pesticide applications may be required to keep damage at acceptable levels. However, over the past twenty years some growers have turned to the trichogramma wasp instead to protect their cornfields against the corn borer.

Click here to read an article written by Josée Boisclair and Audrey Charbonneau that discusses government assistance programs available to growers who want to use trichogramma to protect their crops against the corn borer (in French).