ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
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Organic IPM Field Guide (Summary)

The idea behind this field guide was to provide a pictorial guide about the concepts of organic IPM and important pests and beneficials. The focus of the document is implementing ecologically-based strategies to prevent pests from becoming a problem in the first place. We have attempted to limit the text to provide only useful “take-home” messages for farmers. This publication was distilled from a series of powerpoint shows, developed by Martin Guerena and Ann Baier, that were part of an organic pest management training course hosted by the Agricultural Land Based Training Association (ALBA) of Salinas, California. This effort was funded jointly by the Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) and the ATTRA Project of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT).

This document is divided into 5 parts:

Beneficials, Beneficial Habitat and Insect Pests [PDF / 774 kb]
Plant Disease Management [PDF / 303 kb]
Weed Management [PDF / 327 kb]
Vertebrate Pest Management [PDF / 348 kb]
Photo Credits [PDF / 114 kb]

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If you have problems downloading this document, or wish to have a version with more photographic detail that would provide better quality print copies, please call 1-800-346-9140 and request a CD.

Printing the Field Guides:
We recommend that you print these on a color printer and laminate the pages (1 & 2 back-to-back, 3 & 4 back-to-back, 5 & 6 back-to-back, etc.). Then punch holes in the top left corners of the odd-numbered pages and attach them together with a ring or wire so you can use them in the field.

Last Updated December 28, 2007

ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service. Visit the NCAT Web site for more information on our sustainable agriculture projects.

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