The National Onion Association's Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to stay up-to-date on industry trends, attend educational talks, and go offsite for field tours. In the pictures below, Dusty and Chris visited Vidalia onion fields and from Bland Farms and G&R Farms, as well as an onion packing house

Dr. Huckaba had help from the Teleos crew, including our USA Sales Manager Bruce Jacobs, Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson, and USA Credit Manager Bill Reinbott with the sweetpotato field trials in Eureka, NC.

Dr. Adrienne Gorny from NC State Extension and consultant Chris Pierce were also onsite helping harvest, sort and count.

The photos show the grower plowing up sweetpotatoes, then harvesting and sorting.

The test treatments included TELONE™ II as well as TELONE™/Chloropicrin combinations. The results showed that TELONE™ provided very good control of the devastating guava root-knot nematode. We look forward to sharing the results of these trials in the coming months.

Teleos works with a third-party bio-analytical testing company called Eurofins Métodos Servicios Agrícolas, and they visited several greenhouse trials in Murcia, Spain. The Eurofins team we’re working with is led by Miguel Angel Diez. Miguel showed us around his greenhouse facility where several ongoing crop protection trials are currently underway, including trials with TELONE™, Chloropicrin, contact nematicides, and soil solarization.

Teleos Specialists Robin Matson and Dusty Allen were onsite at the Pacific Northwest Vegetable Association Annual Conference & Trade Show in Kennewick, WA. The Pacific Northwest Vegetable Association is dedicated to education, research, production, promotion, and representation in the Northwest vegetable industry and markets.

We're proud to be members of the PNVA and lunch sponsors of this event!

Growers in South Carolina are prepping their peach orchards now, ahead of spring plantings in April. While growers do have nematode-resistant rootstock options, nematodes are still a huge threat for peaches in South Carolina with the first report of the Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne floridensis infecting Guardian® Peach rootstock. (Read More)

Teleos has been on the move! Recently, our EMEA Sales Manager JB Gibbs, President John Godbehere, Director of R&D Dr. Randy (RM) Huckaba, and Stewardship Manager Justin H. visited Europe to see our TELONE™ packaging facilities and check in on greenhouse trials.

TeamTeleos is in Nashville at the 70th Annual SOUTHERN CROP PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION annual meeting. We're proud to be gold sponsors of the event!

Teleos President John Godbehere, USA Sales Manager Bruce Jacobs, and Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson are attending seminars, meeting growers, and learning about the key issues affecting the ag industry in the southeast.

We are proud members of the SCPA and appreciate all of the work they do to support our ag industry. We're already looking forward to next year's event!

The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension compiled its 2024 Southeastern Peach, Nectarine, and Plum Pest Management and Culture Guide. For peach growers in the southeast, the guide recommends TELONE™ applications "should generally be made in the fall prior to mid-November. October soil temperatures often provide the best opportunity for efficacy."

It goes on to say, "pre-plant soil fumigation and the use of appropriate rootstocks are strongly encouraged on light, sandy soil where root-knot, root-lesion or ring nematodes are present. On many sites preplant fumigation is imperative to achieve reasonable orchard productivity and longevity."

Our Mid-Atlantic TELONE™ Specialist Greg Roberson, was onsite at the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission's Annual Field Day. This event is held in conjunction with North Carolina State University's Extension Program and is an excellent opportunity to connect with researchers and sweetpotato growers.

The event was held at the Horticultural Crops Research Station in Clinton, North Carolina. The field day highlighted updates on variety research, Guava Root-Knot Nematode management, drone spray applications, sesame as a potential rotation crop, and more!

Teleos is a proud member of the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission and we were also happy to help sponsor this field day. If you are a sweetpotato grower interested in learning what TELONE™ can do for you, visit www.teleosag.com.

Our Teleos President, John Godbehere, recently returned from a trip to Japan where he toured sweetpotato growing regions and learned about the Japanese culture from our Japanese Sales Manager, Masato Nozawa.

Nozawa-san shared how sweetpotatoes are such an important part of Japanese daily life, and the most important crop that TELONE™ protects in Japan. Like American sweetpotatoes, Japanese sweetpotatoes, (satsumaimo in Japanese), are highly susceptible to nematode damage, so it's vital growers prep the soil with TELONE™ ahead of planting.

John and our Japanese team had a great trip through the Ibakari and Chiba prefectures learning all about Japanese sweetpotato production and culture.

Our California TELONE™ Specialist, Brian Hegland, is onsite this week at the Western Plant Health annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. Teleos is the official welcome gift sponsor for the event, and all attendees received a Teleos branded bag upon check-in.

Our team looks forward to this event every year. This event brings together a diverse group of growers and distributors from across the West, and provides an excellent opportunity for thought leaders in the ag industry to come together.

"Western Plant Health is the premier industry trade association representing more than 90 percent of all the fertilizer and crop protection companies in California, Arizona and Hawaii. Its vision is a sustainable future that harmonizes the needs of plants, people and the planet."

The 80th Annual Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association (FFVA)'s Annual Meeting took place this week on Marco Island, Florida. Our Southeast TELONE™ Specialist Chris Hays attended the event and shared it was a great opportunity to engage with several of Florida's top growers.

"The Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association is the state's leading full-service specialty crop organization, serving Florida's grower-shipper community since 1943. FFVA represents a broad range of crops, including vegetables, citrus, tropical fruit, berries, sod, sugar cane, tree crops and more.