Completed Competitive Grant

Supporting Leopold Center IPM research through on-farm trials and demonstrations

Project ID: 1995-39

Abstract

The efforts of the Leopold Center Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Issue Team were augmented and advanced through collaboration with Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI). Using a program of on-farm research, demonstrations, and farm field days, the project evaluated two methods that refine IPM by providing biological control options and/or more precise information about effective (as opposed to gross) pest infestation levels. Biological controls of alfalfa weevil and European corn borer were tested.

Lead investigator: Richard Thompson, Practical Farmers of Iowa, et al

Year of grant completion: 1997

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Initiative.

Topics: Biocontrol and Integrated Pest Management

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