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Integrated Pest Management

Farm Tax School 2009 Friday, January 30, 2009, 1:00 - 4:00 pm, Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County, Middletown. Designed for new & veteran farmowners who do theirown taxes or tax preparers who work on farm returns.

Horticulture Programs for Profressionals Calendar '08-'09 A complete listing, plus pesticide certification information.

Cornell Guidelines for Pest Management (Cornell "Recommends") -- now online and searchable!

Pest Management Around the Home Cultural and Pesticide Pest Management for homeowners -- now online and searchable!

Integrated Pest Management (IPM), an environmentally and economically sensitive approach to managing crop pests using the best of available biological, cultural, and chemical controls has been practiced in Orange County for over a decade. Eighty percent of the county’s onions are enrolled in IPM. IPM is also practiced by numerous other growers on 12 other crops and on several golf courses.

Gary Couch, IPM Specialist gjc15@cornell.edu
Coordinates IPM Programs for ornamental crops in Hudson Valley

New York State IPM website: http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/

Updated: January 5, 2009