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Extensive monitoring is essential for reduced-risk practices to be successful.
Budbreak sprays with Breakthrough had lower blight damage with less applications than grower standard treatments. It is more expensive to use reduced-risk practices. However, with persistence and long-term use, they become less expensive economically as well as in terms of worker safety and environmental issues. Progress on 1999 Activity 2 Hold field meetings in each region for growers to see the results of a reduced-risk pest management program. Five regional field meetings attended by 50 to 60 participants at each site were held to show walnut growers the methods employed and results of a reduced-risk pest management program.