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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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Established 1967

Michigan fruit producers are in competition with more than 30 fruit pests that threaten to damage their crops. 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. Research topics include studying performance attributes of reduced-risk pesticides, optimizing delivery systems for crop protection materials, monitoring and controlling invasive and emerging pests, and developing novel pest management tactics. The center also supports IR-4, a United States Department of Agriculture project that works with specialty crop growers, registrants and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to register products for use on specialty crops, including reduced-risk pesticides.

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  • M-AAA awards more than $600K in grants for MSU animal agriculture research

    Published on December 11, 2014
    Seventeen Michigan State University researchers and Extension outreach and education specialists have received more than $600,000 in funding from the Michigan Alliance for Animal Agriculture.

  • 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.

  • MSU AgBioResearch names new acting associate director

    Published on June 26, 2014
    George Smith, MSU animal science professor, will serve as acting associate director of MSU AgBioResearch beginning July 1.

  • 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.

  • 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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