Integrated Pest Management for Organic and Sustainable farmers-web tools, scouting and understanding degree days June 21, Thursday from 2:00-3:30 (EST) To join the meeting on June 21 at 2 pm EST Click on this link: http://connect.msu.edu/msuorganicipm/ If you cannot attend the live presentation the webinar will be available for later viewing on www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu<http://www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu/> website. Outline of IPM Webinar 1) Introduction: (challenges of producing a crop) 2) Pest Management a) History 3) What is IPM? 4) What you need to know for effective IPM Decision-making i) Pest Life Cycles 5) The effects of weather i) How weather affects the crop and pests ii) Effects of wind and fronts, moisture, sunlight, and Temperature 6) Degree-days. a.) What are they, how to calculate b) Using degree-days to predict pest occurrence 7) Disease predictions 8) Sources of weather information a) Enviroweather b) Other web-based Resources 9) Predictions vs. actual. The importance of monitoring 10) Scouting i) Methods (general) (1) Scouting site selection (2) Frequency 11) Examples: predicting and monitoring for pests i) Tomatoes ii) Corn iii) Apples Sponsored by North Central SARE and Center For Regional Food System at Michigan State University Questions? contact: Vicki Morrone Center for Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University Organic Farming Specialist 480 Wilson Rd. Room 303 East Lansing, MI 48824 Www.MichiganOrganic.msu.edu 517-353-3542/517-282-3557 (cell) FAX 517-353-3834 If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html