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The fastest growing agricultural commodities in the U.S. are produced by the green industry (Hall et al. 2007).

Many conventional nursery and greenhouse practices result in detrimental effects to the managed ecosystem and potentially to the environment as a whole, resulting in increased pest outbreaks and costs to growers.

To address this situation, the MCE IPM team members have conducted research on the development, effectiveness, and implementation of alternative pest management practices. Moreover, surveys show we have influenced grower practices and increased grower adoption of IPM practices by concomitantly informing our stakeholders on these topics (Greenhouse Pest Alert Survey 2006-07, 2008; Nursery / Landscape Pest Alert Survey 2006, 2007). This positive movement has resulted through our teams' continual efforts with seminars, educational materials, training workshops,electronic outreach, field demonstration, publications in refereed and trade journals, books, bulletins, fact sheets, and regular contact with our growers and trained IPM scouts.

• MD IPM Newsletters
  
• Maryland IPM Annual Activity Reports
  

For more information, contact Sandra Sardanelli

Last updated: 10/28/2009