AgBioResearch

Michigan Onion Committee Research Priorities

Updated August 2021

Weed control:

1. Improved crop safety of post-emergence herbicides.
2. Improved weed control with pre-emergence herbicides.
3. Improved control of yellow nutsedge, marsh yellowcress and pepper weeds through chemical and/or cultural methods.

Disease control:

1. Improved understanding of Stemphyllium leaf blight.
2. Improved understanding and control of bacterial bulb rots.
3. Development of disease forecasting models for onion.

Insect control:

1. Improved control of onion thrips
2. Onion maggot.
3. Improved IPM strategies.