Best Management Practices

Sanitize or sterilize equipment and propagation beds to eliminate any pathogen or pest reproductive bodies which could contaminate the next generation of plants (72).  All propagation surfaces and pruners should be disinfected after each use.  Workers should wear clean clothes and shoes, especially after entering an area known to be infected.  Use disposable gloves while handling plants and change them between lots (97).

            LBAM: Cleanable surfaces can be swept or hosed clean to avoid harboring pests (61).

            EGVM: All mechanized farm and/or vineyard equipment or conveyances leaving vineyards, fields and/or other infested areas at any time must be either (1) pressure washed to ensure that all plant litter, debris and/or all types of waste have been removed, or (2) steam treated in accordance with PPQ Treatment Manual schedule T406-d and applicable conditions of 7 CFR Part 305 (101).