1. Integrated Pest Management By Brad Lubbers Unit 2167

2. What is Integrated Pest Management? A holistic approach to managing weeds, diseases, pests and cultural problems in an agricultural production system.

3. Three components Monitoring Scouting Implementation

4. Traditional Methods Broad Spectrum chemical application Bigger scale treatments Less attention to specific pests, weeds or diseases

5. IPM versus Traditional Methods Why change? –Specific and necessary use of chemicals –Better quality products –Cheaper cost of production

6. Economic Threshold Pests, weeds or diseases are allowed to exist up to Economic threshold. Traditional methods did not follow this idea.

7. Advantages Chemical treatments applied more specifically Beneficial insects are kept alive Use of biological controls

8. Disadvantages Higher knowledge base is required to implement Experts may need to be consulted Extra time is needed to monitor and scout

9. Chemical Label Common Name Chemical Name Signal Word Precaution Statement

10. Chemical Label cont. Classification Proper treatment if exposed Re-entry period