Some organic growers use Polypropylene fabric row covers as insect barriers, others for frost protection. Dr. John Palumbo is doing research at the U of A Yuma Ag Center with this material for insect control and in some cases this fabric is used as a cage, plots are infested with Bagrada bugs to evaluate the damage that could be caused to the crop. The following video shows the procedures used to establish one of these trials. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/ugWLvWgvYE4

Polypropylene Row Cover

To contact Marco Peña go to: marcop@ag.arizona.edu

For questions or comments on any of the topics please contact Marco Pena at the Yuma Agricultural Center.
College of Agriculture, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.