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  Trevor Nichols Research Center

  The primary objective of the 156-acre Trevor Nichols Research Center is to find the best ways to keep fruit pest-free in Michigan while preserving the environment and ensuring economic viability for the state’s fruit growers.

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• Trevor Nichols Research Center: An overview

  Ensuring economic viability for the state's fruit growers is the objective of the 156-acre Trevor Nichols Research Center, located three miles from Lake Michigan in southwest Michigan.

• Developing environmentally friendly disease, pest management

  Field research investigates alternative methods using environmentally friendly tools for disease control. One such disease being leaf rust, which multiplies quickly under the right conditions.

• Helping growers control insects

  Researchers are studying insect pest issues that affect blueberry, grape, strawberry and raspberry crops in Michigan. The plantings at Trevor Nichols provide the resources for experiments that otherwise would not be accomplished on grower farms.

• Effective pheromone pest control

  Researchers at Trevor Nichols Research Center are looking at new ways to deliver pheromones for mating disruption and pest control.

• Taking measures to protect fruit trees

  One new and novel delivery system MSU AgBioResearch scientists at Trevor Nichols Research Center are exploring is the application of trunk injection as a superior means of delivering plant protection materials to fruit trees.

• Steve Van Timmeren

  Research Assistant I
  vantimm2@msu.edu
  269-561-5040
  

• Jamie Polk

  Farm Management Staff
  polk@msu.edu
  269-561-5040
  

• Kyle Coffindaffer

  Assistant Farm Manager
  coffinda@msu.edu
  269-561-5040
  

• Laura Lamb

  Research Technologist I
  lambl@msu.edu
  269-561-5040
  

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  John Wise

  Professor & IR-4 NC Region Director
  wisejohn@msu.edu
  517-432-2668
  

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  Faculty to discuss trial results at Trevor Nichols complex

  Published on September 10, 2013
  Insect and disease research will be the main topics of discussion during the annual research field day at the MSU Trevor Nichols Research Center (TNRC) Sept. 24.

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  Attracting wild bees to farms is a good insurance policy

  Published on April 4, 2014
  A paper co-authored by MSU AgBioResearch's Rufus Isaacs gives farmers of pollination-dependent crops tangible results to convert marginal acreage to fields of wildflowers.

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  A fruitful partnership

  Published on September 9, 2021
  MSU, Tree Fruit Commission, MDARD partner to support fruit industry

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  MSU researchers to study eco-friendly pest management solutions for invasive fruit pests

  Published on November 12, 2015
  Researchers from Michigan State University have received a $173,151 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study novel, non-spray control methods for invasive fruit pests.

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  Save the dates for MSU field days featuring research updates

  Published on May 26, 2016
  Members of the Michigan agriculture industry and others are invited to tour several of the Michigan State University research facilities this summer during the annual field day festivities.

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  MSU research centers to host public field days

  Published on May 13, 2014
  MSU AgBioResearch is inviting the public to tour several of its outlying research centers this summer.

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  Enviro-weather shows promise for growers of all kinds

  Published on June 11, 2013
  A 2011 survey of 1,000 fruit growers indicates that Enviro-weather helped to save at least $1.7 million in grower costs. Growers surveyed also indicated an estimated 7 million pounds in increased crop yield.

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  MSU AgBioResearch announces new assistant director of natural resources programs

  Published on October 22, 2014
  MSU fisheries and wildlife professor Michael Jones has been named assistant director of natural resources programs for MSU AgBioResearch. This is a new part-time position within the organization.

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  MSU AgBioResearch announces field day schedule for summer 2017

  Published on May 18, 2017
  Members of the Michigan agriculture industry and others are invited to tour several of the Michigan State University research facilities this summer during the annual field day festivities.

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  Spotted wing drosophila proves formidable fruit foe

  Published on November 7, 2016
  Learn what MSU researchers are doing about a tiny invasive fly called spotted wing drosophila that's causing major problems for the fruit industry.