IPM News and Related Stories

Organic Rice
With organic rice in demand, scientists to help farmers improve production
Organic rice is increasingly desired by U.S. consumers, but farmers know that growing the grain chemically free can mean providing a feast for insects, diseases and weeds.
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Toxic Algae Threatens Bald Eagles
Hydrilla is slowly choking rivers, ponds and lakes of North Carolina. Now it has become an even more ominous potential threat and an eagle killer.
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New app helps strawberry and peach growers manage diseases
Strawberry growers have a direct line to help for and information about diseases with the new MyIPM app, developed by researchers at Clemson University.
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Cover Crops
SARE(Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) has published a bulletin to promote the use of cover crops for pollinators and beneficial insects.
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Baby, it's cold outside.  Time to stock up on firewood.  
An article from the USDA on how the Asian longhorned beetle, emerald ash borer and gypsy moth can be spread into new areas on firewood.
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