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Marion Soil & Water Conservation District

Pest Management

A customized system to reduce crop and environmental damage with environmentally sensitive strategies of prevention, avoidance, monitoring and suppression to manage plant pests.

   

How it works

Producers use environmentally sensitive strategies such as scouting to identify, monitor, avoid and/or suppress insects, weeds and diseases.

Purpose/Benefit

  • Enhances the quality and quantity of products
  • Minimizes negative effects of pest control on soil, water, air, plants, animals and humans
  • Prevents over-treatment with custom applications for specific pests on specific areas of a field
  • Lowers costs and energy inputs by reducing the number of passes over a field and/or the amount of pesticides applied