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Integrated Pest Management: An Overview for Market Growers
Posted on December 1, 2002Chemicals are not the only, or often the best, option for controlling pest problems. Integrated Pest Management is an alternative that uses all appropriate pest […]
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Integrated Weed Management for Fresh Market Production
Posted onIn fruit and vegetable production, more labor is often spent on weed management than any other task. Understanding where a weed grows, why it grows […]
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Fresh market growers share pest management strategies (Research Brief #62)
Posted onIntegrated Pest Management (IPM) combines monitoring practices with cultural, physical, and biological control strategies to manage pests with a minimum of pesticides. With support from the Pesticide Use and Risk Reduction Project at CIAS, UW-Madison rural sociologist Pete Nowak and Extension IPM specialist Karen Delahaut surveyed Wisconsin fresh market vegetable and berry growers in 2001. They found that many fresh market vegetable and berry growers in Wisconsin use IPM practices.
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Report Encourages Wisconsin Investment in Organic Agriculture
Posted on November 12, 2002Organic food sales in the U.S. have grown 20% or more annually for the past decade and remain strong. A new report details the growth […]
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Resource CD Provides Facts and Tools for Fresh Market Vegetable Growers
Posted on November 7, 2002A new resource CD from the University of Wisconsin provides a wealth of production and marketing information for fresh market vegetable growers. The “Fresh Market […]
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Ovsynch results variable on grass-based dairy farms (Research Brief #61)
Posted on October 1, 2002To take maximum advantage of pasture growth, dairy farmers using rotational grazing often have a short (less than 3 month) spring calving window as a goal. But this is difficult to achieve. CIAS-supported research on a Wisconsin grazing farm shows that the Ovsynch breeding program, while successful on confinement dairy farms, can be problematic on grazing dairy farms.
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Building Soil Organic Matter with Organic Amendments
Posted on September 1, 2002If you follow practices that build and maintain soil organic matter, especially through the addition of organic amendments, you will improve the quality of your […]
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Maxwell is interim head of Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
Posted on April 1, 2002Doug Maxwell, professor emeritus of plant pathology, will serve as interim director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Maxwell […]
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The Art and Science of Composting
Posted on March 1, 2002Composting is controlled decomposition, the natural breakdown process of organic residues. Composting transforms raw organic waste materials into biologically stable, humic substances that make excellent […]
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Contest Spreads the Word about IPM
Posted on February 1, 2002Write a clever IPM ditty today. You may win fame On Wisconsin Highways! Do your friends and family applaud your priceless sense of humor? Or […]