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Pest Management
How it works
This practice is a comprehensive approach to fine tuning on-farm management of harmful weeds and pests. Today we have improved methods for control of weeds, insects and diseases. Management strategies that allow for better control with minimum risk to the environment. Resistant plants, cultural controls, soil amendments, beneficial insects, natural enemies, barriers, physical treatments, behavioral disruptants, biological and conventional pesticides are some of these management strategies.
How it helps
- Reduces risk of drift and contamination to non-target species.
- By using mechanical cultivation, pesticides, fertilizers and tillage only when necessary, growers protect the environment, by reducing sediment, and polluted runoff from entering our lakes, streams and rivers.
- Utilizing scouting and selecting the appropriate control for the weed or pest identified, supports the biological integrity of all life on earth and decreases the chances of resistance.
- Reduces costs by applying when and where needed in turn, increasing profits!
Link to NRCS Standards & Specifications
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