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This book tells you how to manage your crops by combining chemical, biological, mechanical and cultural control methods. It gives you all the information on weeds, insects and diseases that you need to understand why pest buildups occur. It shows you how to anticipate problems and prevent crop damage. 170 pages
Agdex 606-3
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Table of Contents
- Basic concepts
- Integrated pest management
Weed Prevention
- Weed sanitation
- Prevent weed seed formation
- Practise fence line and headland control
- Prevent spread with soil and equipment
- Prevent spread through feed and manure
- Handling new weeds in your fields
Prevention of Insect Pests
Disease Prevention
- Quarantines and inspections
- Quarantinable diseases of concern to Alberta
- Disease-free certified seed
- Sanitation
- Pesticides
- Minimum tillage and zero tillage
- Crop rotation
- Crops commonly used for rotations
Seed Selection and Treatment
- Use resistant varieties
- Seed treatments for control of disease
- Seed storage
- Insects
- Rodents Seed testing certificates
Seeding and Fertilization
- Rates
- Depth
- Timing
- Seedbed preparation
- Fertility
- Lime
- Crop placement Crop selection
Physical Control of Pests
- Harvest practices
- Tillage
- Grazing
- Trap strips
- Fire
Principles of Biological Control
- Background
- Strategies for implementing or enhancing biological control
- Steps involved in biological control of weeds
- Biological control of weeds
- Biological control of insects
- Practices that harm beneficial insects
Field Scouting
- Why scout fields
- Scouting timetable
- Scouting frequency
- What to look for
- The tools needed for scouting
- Field scouting timetable
- Scouting patterns
- Basic information to aid in scouting
- Basic weed scouting
- Basic insect scouting
- Basic disease scouting
Weed Control
- Weed biology
- Choosing weed control measures
- Weed management in specific crops
- Management of specific weeds
- Bladder campion
- Canada thistle
- Chickweed
- Cleavers
- Corn spurry
- Cow cockle
- Dandelion
- Field bindweed
- Flixweed (wild millet)
- Green foxtail
- Hemp nettle
- Kochia
- Lamb's-quarters
- Leafy spurge
- Narrow-leaved hawk's-beard
- Night-flowering catchfly
- Quackgrass
- Redroot pigweed
- Russian thistle
- Scentless chamomile
- Shepherd's-purse
- Smartweed - annual
- Smartweed - perennial
- Sow-thistle - perennial
- Stinkweed
- Stork's-bill
- Tartary buckwheat
- Toadflax
- White cockle
- Wild buckwheat
- Wild mustard
- Wild oats
Insect Control
- Biology
- Assess the potential for insect damage
- Economic thresholds
- Management of insect pests
- Alfalfa looper
- Alfalfa weevil
- Army cutworm
- Beet webworm
- Bertha armyworm
- Canola root maggots
- Clover cutworm
- Dark-sided cutworm
- Diamondback moth
- European corn borer
- Flea beetles
- Grasshopper
- Clear-winged
- Migratory
- Packard's
- Two-striped
- Greenbug
- Lygus bugs
- Pale western cutworm
- Pea aphid
- Prairie grain wireworm
- Redbacked cutworm
- Red turnip beetle
- Sweetclover weevil
- Wheat stem sawfly
Disease Control
- Symptoms of disease
- Living (biotic) causes of disease
- Non-living (abiotic) causes of disease
- Disease development
- Non-chemical seed treatment
- Chemical seed treatment
- Methods of seed treatment
- General control measures for viruses
- Mycoparasitism
- Interference
Diseases of Cereals
- Anthracnose
- Aster yellows
- Bacterial blight
- Barley stripe, fungal stripe
- Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV)
- Barley yellow dwarf virus red leaf of oats
- Blue dwarf virus crinkle
- Browning root rot, pythium root rot
- Cephalosporium stripe
- Common root rot, seedling blight, damping-off
- Copper deficiency
- Ergot
- Fusarium head blight, scab, pink mold, white heads, tombstone scab
- Grey speck, manganese deficiency
- Net blotch
- Powdery mildew
- Rusts
- Scald
- Septoria complex, speckled leaf blotch, glume blotch
- Sharp eyespot
- Smuts and bunt
- Stem smut
- Take-all
- Tan spot, yellow leaf spot
- Wheat streak mosaic virus
- Winter injury, winter kill
Diseases of Oilseeds
- Aster yellows
- Blackleg, canker, dry rot
- Blackspot, alternaria black spot, grey leaf spot
- Clubroot
- Downy mildew, angular leaf spot
- Frost and heat canker of flax
- Fusarium wilt
- Grey mold head rot
- Grey stem, white leaf spot
- Pasmo
- Root rot, brown girdling root rot, root rot complex
- Rust
- Sclerotinia, stem rot, sclerotinia wilt, head rot
- Seedling blight, damping-off, root rot
- Staghead, white rust
- Stem break and browning
- Verticillium wilt, leaf mottle
Diseases of Forage Legumes
- Bacterial wilt
- Black stem
- Common leaf spot, pseudopeziza leaf spot
- Crown rot, root rot
- Downy mildew
- Grey leaf spot, stagnospora leaf spot and root rot complex
- Leaf proliferation
- Powdery mildew
- Sooty blotch, black blotch
- Target spot, stemphylium
- Verticillium wilt
- Viral diseases
- Winter crown root rot, snow mold
- Yellow leaf blotch
Diseases of Pulse Crops
Appendixes
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Ada Serafinchon.
This information published to the web on April 24, 2001.
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