Integrated Pest Management

Beneficial anthropods

Beneficial arthropods in the Cotton Belt: Predators

April 24, 2022

Tar spot fungus has small, raised, black spots irregularly scattered across upper and lower corn leaves from the middle toward the leaf tip. It may be surrounded by a circular brown “fisheye” halo. Photo courtesy of Damon Smith, University of Wisconsin.

Tar spot: A new fungus amongus

February 15, 2022

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Beneficial arthropods of the Corn Belt and Great Plains

February 15, 2022

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Chafer Machinery.

Critical time of palmer amaranth removal in soybean affected by residual herbicides

January 11, 2022

Illustration courtesy of Adobe Stock/LuckyStep.

Genetic approaches to weed control

January 11, 2022

Figure 1, Wheat of Australian farmer and harvest weed seed control pioneer, Ray Harrington, is ready for harvest but infested with rigid ryegrass. Note the weed seeds are retained above the combine’s cutter bar at harvest, so the combine will take the seeds in and subject them to the Harrington Seed Destructor. Photo courtesy of Michael Flessner.

From spreader to predator: Killing weed seeds with the combine

September 18, 2021

Carefully integrating grazing livestock on cropland is one aspect of regenerative agriculture. Photo courtesy of Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed.

Regenerative agriculture: What every CCA needs to know

July 6, 2021

Preserving biodiversity and natural enemies is an IPM tactic to help keep pest populations below economic thresholds. Shown here are lacewing larva eating soybean aphids. Photo by David Cappaert, Bugwood.org.

IPM toolkit preservation

May 3, 2021

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Protecting plant stands: Peanut industry moves quickly to address emerging disease threat

May 3, 2021

Community-based management of herbicide-resistant weeds brings neighbors together to reach a threshold where enough farmers are managing herbicide resistance to minimize local spread. Photo by Terry Tindall.

Community management of herbicide-resistant weeds in the Pacific Northwest

March 10, 2021

New Event: Regional Agriculture and Applied Science