Greetings listeners from around the world. Jordan River here back with more Growcast, true or false. Today we got Matthew Gates on the line. We're here. We're doing a true or false quiz. It's all about IPM and bugs. I know you guys are going to love this one. We got a Pestapalooza masterclass coming up July 13th and 14th. You can find more at Growcastpodcast.com and use code Growcast to save 20 bucks. the goodie bag is worth more than the price of admission.

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thank you for listening and enjoy this show. Hello, podcast listeners. You are now listening to Growcast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show. Turn a grower onto Growcast. Turn a smoker onto growing. It's the best thing that you can do to help us on our mission of overgrow. Make sure you're subscribed, follow us, do all the things, and hit up Growcastpodcast.com for all the action. There you'll find the seeds and the membership, the classes, and all of that. Quick shout out to the Grand Fino Hunters. We did sell out our Fino Hunt boxes. Thank you, everybody. Thank you to all the members. And quick announcement here at the beginning, big thank you to HigraZim for being the official sponsor of the Grand Fino Hunt. That's right. They stepped in, sponsored the hunt. They're putting up the prize money for you guys because they love supporting the community. So shout out to IGrazine and shout out to all the grand pheno hunters out there. Speaking of the website and classes, we have our next instructor on the line with us, of course, coming to Illinois for Pestepalooza, July 13th and 14th. None other than, I mean, I already gave it away with the Pestapalooza. None other than Matthew Gates is on the line. What's up, Matthew? How are you doing, man? I'm doing well. Good to hear you. Good to get you back on the show, man. Excited for our class in Illinois. It's going to be fun. Yeah, I'm really excited for this area because I've been reading and researching Illinois and a lot of the corn belt lately too. So I'm all up to snuff.

Yes, exactly. The corn pests. You know, you do like to study up on the regional areas that we go to. I do like that. It does seem to be, you know, that's got to be a hard part of your job. It does seem to be so specific to locations, right?

The different pressures that people face.

And I believe that was one of your, like, IPM tips was become familiar with your area.

I think that's really good advice, Matthew.

Yeah, no, I appreciate it.

And it is hard.

For most of human history, we would only have, like, regional

pockets of information, but nowadays, it's easier than ever to get, like, environmental information,

have extension agencies that their whole job is to figure this out, and people like myself as well.

I don't want to make sure that's high value for people, for every location we go to.

Yeah, that's awesome, man. I love it. For those who haven't heard Matthew's old episodes, go back and listen. Like I said, I think the last one was like top IPM tips or mistakes. That was a cool list episode. We have a bit of a list episode today, or more specifically, a true or false episode. This was an idea that I had kicking around in my head.

I get asked questions, topics come up, you know, in the Grocast community.

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