What are your neighbors doing for pest management?
UMN Extension Field Crop IPM Podcasts
English - July 09, 2021 19:29 - 25 minutes - 18.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNatural Sciences Science field crops insects weeds disease minnesota extension pest management farming agricultural science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Liz Stahl, U of M Regional Extension Educator based out of Worthington, discusses what she has learned from the annual IPM Assessment, a survey of growers across the state about their pest management use and concerns. Perceptions on what neighbors are doing can influence grower decisions, though one farmer after seeing this survey data remarked, "Wow, I thought all my neighbors were using fungicide on their corn." Often times, growers are using less pesticide than we might perceive.