Research and IPM: California PestCast--UC IPM

California PestCast

California PestCast is a project of the University of California Statewide IPM Program and the California Environmental Protection Agency Department of Pesticide Regulation.

Its goal is to expand the use of computer-based crop disease forecasting in California through

development of a public-private weather network in support of adaptive research and validation of disease models and
promotion of crop disease model research, validation, and outreach to encourage adoption of this new technology.

Description of the California PestCast project go

Goal, background, weather networks.

Supported research projects go

Projects supported through the PestCast weather network.

PestCast research weather database go

Part of the UC IPM California weather database; select "Networks" for an archive of hourly, daily, and quarter-hourly information.

Disease model database go

Information about existing disease models.

Insect phenology model database go

Insect models collected by UC IPM.

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