Friday, December 16, 2011

IPM: Integrated Pest Management

The concept of Integrated Pest Management has been around for several decades, and is just as useful in a robotic, no-till scenario as it is combined with conventional, traction-based agriculture, perhaps even more so. In a nutshell, it's about the inclusion of biological controls in a mix of methods that can also include mechanical and chemical controls. The use of barn owls in the video below is an excellent example.

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