The Big World of IPM
Welcome to the big world of IPM - integrated pest management! Pests are everywhere and ways to manage them safely and effectively are as diverse as the pests themselves.
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Joanna Bloese: Perspective Shifts with Silicon (opens the original)
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Meet Joanna Bloese, an assistant professor and extension specialist at New Mexico State University. She has been a jack-of-all-trades both in her research (orchard and aquatic growing systems, farms of all sizes, annuals and ornamentals) and in her learning (entomology, glass blowing and Italian). In her previous job with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Joanna found that silicon can reduce thrips damage in orchids. Instead of targeting one pest, silicon can protect plants from multiple pests
Tom Getts: Invasive Annual Grasses and Indaziflam (opens the original)
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Meet Tom Getts, a Weed Ecology and Cropping Systems Advisor with University of California Cooperative Extension. He works in rural Northern California (Lassen, Modoc, Sierra, and Plumas counties) and appreciates the vast range of geography and the tight-knit community there. Invasive annual grasses have become a major problem in most of the West, causing increased fire risk and lowering cattle feed quality. Tom has done trials with indaziflam to keep this pest at bay. Tom also tells a story that
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