What is pest management?
Pest management is implementing various management practices to limit agricultural pests and to reduce potential adverse effects on plant growth, crop and forage production, and the environment. It should be compatible with your crop and forage production goals and the environment. Pest Management may include cultural, chemical and biological controls of weeds, insects, diseases and other pests. It involves crop scouting to determine what pests are present and, if reduction of a pest problem is needed, what type of measure will be most successful. The need and type of treatment is generally based on economic thresholds of potential crop loss.
