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landscape logo How to receive the Landscape Alerts by mail or receive e-mail notification when new issues are posted on the Internet

The Landscape Crop Advisory Team (CAT) Alerts consist of 18 issues each season: 16 during the growing season plus pre- and post- season issues. The price for a mail subscription is $35. Print the linked form (or a pdf form) to subscribe and receive the printed/mailed version of the newsletter.

Internet readers can signup here at the web site to receive an e-mail message each time a new issue is posted (instructions). The Landscape Alert will begin its annual publishing season in mid-March.

About the Landscape Alert newsletter
The Landscape Alert newsletter is your connection to the experts at Michigan State University. During the busy growing season, the CAT Alert newsletter provides timely pest management information based on current conditions. You get insect, disease and weed management recommendations for nursery stock, Christmas trees, turfgrass and other landscape settings. We discuss general management of turfgrass for golf courses, athletic fields, and lawns. Articles include reports from MSU's Diagnostic Services, weather features with growing degree day totals and precipitation totals, and advice for your home and yard about insect and other pest management. We have updates on emerald ash borer including the latest on management options. We also have a separate newsletter, the Greenhouse Alert, for those growing bedding plants that is published January through May.

MSU Extension’s field and campus staff combine expertise to serve you best
Our knowledge of current landscape pest concerns is gathered during weekly conference telephone calls. The calls link MSU Extension county staff and faculty with Michigan Department of Agriculture nursery inspectors and field staff of the Department of Natural Resources. Based on discussions during the calls, faculty write newsletter articles with timely advice for managing pests and growing plants in healthy landscapes.

Send your subscription in any time during the year. We’ll send back issues from the current publishing year, if you subscribe before July 1. After July 1, the subscription fee is half-price and does not include back issues.

Editions of the Alert are also available for: vegetables, field crops, greenhouse, and landscape/Christmas trees

Contact J. N. Landis, landisj@msu.edu, last revision 11/10/06
The MSU IPM Program maintains this site as an access point to pest management information at MSU. The IPM Program is administered within the Department of Entomology, fueled by research from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered to citizens through MSU Extension, and proud to be a part of Project GREEEN.
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10/29/07