Year One

• Complete kinetic mortality data for initial pests , codling moths, navel orangeworms, Mexican fruit flies (objective 1).
• Determine a range of operation parameters for achieving relatively uniform treatment conditions in apples, cherries, walnuts, and grapefruits (objective 2).
• Collect one season of experimental data for some of the representative commodities, including apple, cherries, walnuts, and grapefruits (objective 3).

Year Two

• Collect second season data as listed for year one, and expand the pest mortality data and number of commodities (Objectives 1-3).  The insect mortality data will be collected for additional pests including Indian meal moths and apple maggot, and quality data will be collected for other commodities, potentially pear, almonds and oranges
• Develop treatment protocols to for apples, cherries, walnuts, and grapefruits chosen for the initial tests (Objective 4).
• We anticipate that by the end of 2nd year, we will be able to develop at least one successful treatment protocol. We will coordinate demonstrations of the treatments and the treated products in conjunction with industry meetings. We will also present our results at industrial meetings, and will have our website online to report current status of research and consortium activities (Objective 6).

Year Three

• Complete objectives 1-3 for other commodities and pests.
• Conduct confirmatory tests for treatment protocols using large quantities of representative commodities (Objective 4).
• Develop treatment protocols for pears, almonds, and oranges (Objective 4).
• Initiate field tests of confirmed protocols for representative commodities. We will collaborate with several companies in Washington, California and Texas for those tests. We anticipate that the industry will provide needed labors, technical support, and infrastructure for on-site large quantity testing (Objectives 5 and 6).
• We anticipate that we will develop two to three confirmed protocols by the end of the third year. We will organize two workshops to educate and train the industry personnel, university extension specialists, and other researchers about the new protocols. We will present technical results at professional and industry meetings. We will maintain an active website to update new developments (Objective 6).

Year four

• Complete protocol development and field-tests, conduct economic analysis to make recommendation for implementation in the industry  (Objectives 4-5).
• We will focus on promoting the new technologies, and organize workshops, and demonstration of commercial scale treatments.. We will present technical results at professional and commodity meetings. We will maintain an active website to update new developments (Objective 6).
• The participants will complete a summary report to document scientific and technical information generated from this project.  The document will be published as a book by a scientific press.  We will also organize an international symposium to disseminate our findings (Objective 6).