Ag Alert February 14, 2024

A wet, cold year diminishes Salinas Valley lettuce threat

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By Bob Johnson The unusually cold and wet winter of 2022-23 appears to have brought Salinas Valley lettuce growers a reprieve from im- patiens necrotic stunt virus, which has dev- astated the region’s crop in recent years. In December, researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of California Cooperative Extension concluded that last year’s at- mospheric river storms that caused flood- ing on Monterey County farm fields likely disrupted the spread of the deadly lettuce virus known as INSV. Monterey County farmers in 2022 suf- fered an estimated $150 million in crop losses from the disease, which is spread by milimeter-long insects, or thrips. Two

years earlier, lettuce crop losses were esti- mated at $100 million. The county’s farmers typically har- vest 100,000 acres of lettuce valued at $1.2 billion. After the fallout of 2022, the county en- acted a mandatory abatement program for select weeds that can host INSV and the thrips that carry the disease to lettuce. The county called on residents who no- ticed any of the key weed hosts near lettuce production areas to immediately notify the agricultural commissioner’s office. “There could be many other factors impacting the virus levels, including INSV host weeds,” said Yu-Chen Wang, See VIRUS, Page 9

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