Making Management Decisions for Pests: Past, Present, and Future Approaches
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The Iowa State University Integrated Crop Management Conference is Iowa's premier crop production education event. No other program in Iowa brings together the diverse range of topics, slate of expert presenters and results of the latest University research.
The ICM Conference offers workshops focusing on the latest in crop production technology. Experts from Iowa and surrounding states will provide research updates and results in soil fertility, soil and water management, crop production and pest management.
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Proper pest management is essential for profitable and environmentally sound crop production. And at the heart of pest management is the issue of decision making. An important tenet of pest management is that some levels of pests are tolerable: it is neither profitable nor environmentally safe to try to eliminate all pests. Consequently, the major pest management decisions that need to be answered are what levels of a pest are tolerable and what levels require control. Depending on the pest, answering these questions may be trivially easy to horribly complex.