How Will The 2026 “Super El Niño” Impact Your Bacterial Control Strategy? Early weather outlooks suggest the “Super El Niño” could bring a wetter-than-normal growing season to parts of the Southeast in 2026. While no seasonal forecast can predict exactly what will happen on any individual farm, increased rainfall, higher humidity, and longer periods of…

How to Tank Mix and Spray AgriPhage When we sit down and evaluate ways to improve operational efficiency and sustainability across our IPM programs, many factors need to be taken into consideration. This is especially important when developing our various tank-mixing schedules. To achieve time and labor savings on the farm, multiple products will need…

Bacterial Disease Management and Operational Performance Building a Future-proof, Sustainable Bacterial IPM Program. Bacterial disease management has quietly become one of the hardest operational problems in commercial crop production — not because new pathogens emerged, but because the tools growers depend on are getting harder to rely on. Copper-resistant bacterial spot is now the baseline…

Top 5 Questions Growers Are Asking About Bacterial Disease Control Bacterial disease remains one of the most difficult challenges in modern crop production. Unlike many fungal issues, bacterial pathogens spread quickly, are harder to control once established, and don’t always respond consistently to traditional tools. As resistance increases to conventional antibiotics and copper compounds, as…

How AgriPhage® Fits into a Real-World Spray Program Why Growers Use It, When It Works Best, and How to Apply It Correctly If you’ve farmed long enough, you know bacterial pressure doesn’t follow a schedule. One stretch of warm, wet weather and suddenly you’re managing spread instead of preventing it. Most growers already run tight…

Growers, IPM advisors, and ag retailers are no longer debating whether biologicals belong in modern crop production—they are now focused on how to integrate them effectively, demonstrate return on investment, and ensure consistent performance alongside conventional inputs.

IPM Strategies: How to Boost the Effectiveness of Copper and Antibiotics. When it comes to bacterial disease management in vegetables and fruit, rotation isn’t just about variety — it’s about IPM strategy. For decades, growers have relied heavily on copper-based fungicides and streptomycin or tetracycline-class antibiotics to control devastating bacterial pathogens like Xanthomonas, Pseudomonas, and Erwinia. But the…

IPM Yield Strategies: Stopping Resistance Before It Starts Bacterial disease control in commercial fruit and vegetable production has always required trade-offs. Copper and antibiotics remain essential tools in many systems, but resistance pressure is steadily rising. For many growers, that means more sprays, fewer effective windows, and tighter compliance challenges—all of which quietly erode yields…

Beyond Sustainability — Why AMR Is Costing You and Your Crops Rotation with AgriPhage® Protects More Than Just Your Crops Bacterial disease control in fruit and vegetable crops has always required a balancing act — efficacy, timing, costs, labor, and compliance. But in recent years, that balance has started to tip. Not because copper or…

Strengthening IPM with Bacteriophages: Smarter Disease Control and AMR Defense Bacterial diseases, such as fire blight, bacterial spot, and canker, continue to challenge growers of apples, peaches, citrus, and tomatoes. While copper and antibiotics remain vital tools in commercial agriculture, their overuse has brought diminishing returns. Resistance is rising. Soil health is declining. And regulatory pressures are…