CLEAN EQUIPMENT BEFORE MOVING:

The potential for transporting nematodes in soil on farm equipment, hand tools, rented implements, commercial harvesters, truck tires, and other implements is easily overlooked.

In the Tulelake Basin of California in which many growers farm their own land and lease land from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, washing stations have been established to clean farm equipment moving between fields.

Common sense would indicate that one should wash soil from equipment prior to moving it to an uninfested field.

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