Urban Forest Innovative Solutions

99% protection from Dutch elm disease for your clients
Earn new clients by offering this unique annual service
Provide additional services during on-site injections
Injections are quick, easy and environmentally safe
Reduce the amount of chemicals used in the urban environment

Why Incorporate Dutch Trig Treatments?

Why would an Arborist incorporate Dutch Trig® into their package of tree services? In addition to the benefits outlined in the Dutch Trig® for Cities page and Dutch Trig® for Property Owners pages, vaccinating elm trees to prevent Dutch elm disease offers arborists an opportunity to increase their visibility among their customers as a tree specialist.

Easy, Safe, Fast

Vaccinating elm trees with Dutch Trig® is quick, easy, and environmentally safe. Each treatment offers the arborist an opportunity to visit their customers for a yearly inspection and injection. This presents a unique contact point between the customer and their arborist. Many arborists have found that while on the property to inspect elms they are often asked to provide additional work in the form of pruning, fertilization and IPM for other trees and plants.

Cost

Since Dutch Trig® can be applied simply and quickly, the costs of application are kept low. Arborists can now offer lower priced treatments on a yearly basis for private home owners, and create “evenly spread budgets” for cities and corporate clients. These advantages translate into an easier sales process when compared with competitive fungicide treatments that are much more expensive and labor intensive.

Timing of Treatment

Dutch Trig® is applied in spring at 25% to 75% leaf expansion. The ease and speed of application of Dutch Trig® (100-200 trees a day in one location is feasible) ensures that this work can be scheduled along with other services and treatments that arborists must provide in this season.

Offer a Choice

Arborists now have the possibility of offering their customers more environmentally-friendly disease management options!

What is Needed?

In order to increase the efficacy of Dutch Trig® and maximize the protective effect of the treatment, training in the recognition of Dutch elm disease, the use of the application tool and the handling of the vaccine is very important. Every year we arrange for at least one or two training seminars in which new Dutch Trig® users will receive all the relevant information and gain the necessary experience in the use and application of Dutch Trig®.