Through this program, students learn organic vegetable production and agricultural entrepreneurship.

“Wow, I didn’t know such a small thing could do so much damage!”

As immigrant farmers embark on the adventure of food production, they face many challenges including pest management issues.

There’s a new back-to-basics movement, one that would be understood by today’s connected, savvy, environmentally-conscious, new and beginning farmer.

Even as expectations for higher-quality food rise, we face water and air pollution, loss of beneficial organisms, and increasing persistence of pests.

Adherents of organic and IPM practices share a basic principle: emphasis is placed on human health, the environment, and economics.

Money has spun the world of food, particularly food produced using IPM and organic practices.

Is it time to re-assess and re-label both IPM and organic as ecologically-based?

The first infographic in our set of four about IPM and organic farming.

The second infographic in our set of four about IPM and organic farming.

The fourth infographic in our set of four explores the common priorities of IPM and organic farming.

The third infographic in our set of four explores the limitations, commonalities, and differences of IPM and organic farming.

We hear increasingly about resistance by insects, weeds, and diseases to human-made attempts to control them.

David Mortensen has studied the dramatic rise in the number and extent of weed species resistant to glyphosate, a widely-used herbicide.

Since 1972, streptomycin resistance of Erwinia amylovora in apples has spread, making control of fire blight even more difficult.