Root cause: The cabbage maggot fight - Fruit & Vegetable Magazine

Root cause: The cabbage maggot fight - Fruit & Vegetable Magazine

For many vegetable growers, brassicas like cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower, are dependable crops. That’s until cabbage root maggot strikes. Then the season can unravel underground, unseen until it’s too late.  Renee Prasad teaches IPM and agroecology at the University of the Fraser Valley and is trialing various insecticides for the control of cabbage root maggot (CRM) in a research project funded through the Fruit and Vegetable Growers of Ca…