New Illinois Farmers

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Integrated Pest Management topics

Farmers, aspiring farmers, and educators may use any or all of the training materials developed for this project by following the links below. If you use any of this information in any format please include the following acknowledgment "From information developed by the University of Illinois Extension funded by NIFA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program Project Grant # 2012-49400-19565."

Click on the X in the table below to link to recorded presentations with audio, Power Point files (in pdf format), and lists of resources.

	Recorded presentations with audio	Power Point files (in pdf format)
Integrated Pest Management	X	X
Pesticides	X	X
OMRI Pesticides in Organic Production	X	X
Fruit Insect Management	X	X
Vegetable Insect Management	X	X
Plant Disease Management	X	X
Weed Management	X	X
Vertebrate (Wildlife) Pest Management	X	X

Use these links for additional topics …

Fruit and Vegetable Production, including general production overviews, pruning and training, tools and equipment, farm safety, irrigation, transplant production, variety selection, succession planting, soils and fertilizers, composting, cover crops, organic production and certification, high-tunnel, greenhouse, and hydroponic production systems, pollination, and beekeeping

Business, including business structures, business plans, taxes, contracts, labor laws, insurance, USDA programs that assist small farmers, record-keeping, multi-year planning, and financial analyses, marketing options, CSAs, aggregation and food hubs, management and marketing analyses, and wholesale marketing

Postharvest Handling and Food Safety, including storage facilities and conditions, sanitation, GAPs (Good Agricultural Practices for food safety), and cottage food regulations