Authoritative text enables readers to identify pests quickly and to prevent, correct, or live with most common pest problems. 250 color photos, 100 drawings.

References, suppliers, and a comprehensive index make this book indispensable to growers, farm advisors, IPM scouts, pesticide applicators, pest control advisors, and students. A complete sourcebook for bulbs, cut flowers, potted flowering plants, foliage plants, bedding plants, ornamental trees, and shrubs as grown in the field, greenhouse, and nursery.--COVER.

This publication provides growers and advisors with comprehensive guidelines for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of weeds, diseases, insects and mites, nematodes, and vertebrates of small grains. It covers pest identification, field monitoring, and biological, cultural, and chemical weed control methods. Contains a discussion of small grain rotations as a management tool and table arranged by crop indicating years of rotation and other management practices. A timetable of management activities, tables indicating disease susceptibilityies of wheat, triticale, barley, and oat cultivars, and a glossary are included.

Part 6 of the 14-part Small Grain Production Manual discusses integrated pest management (IPM) for your crop and provides important information on and full-color photographs of the primary diseases of small grains in California.

Part 11 of the 14-part Small Grain Production Manual discusses the benefits of cover cropping with small grains, including nitrogen interaction, water use, and cultivar selection.

Part 9 of the 14-part Small Grain Production Manual introduces the types of weeds that can be a problem in small grains and discusses their cultural and chemical control.