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Integrated Pest Management

Learn to identify common plant diseases, insects, nutritional disorders, and weeds in vegetable crops through field walks and classroom instruction. Demonstrate insect feeding patterns and disease signs, and predict causes while exploring potential solutions.

Curriculum

Integrated Pest Management Module

A Subpoena for Suffering Plants

This mix of hands-on, participatory, field-based learning, and classroom discussion will give you the tools to summon your symptomatic plants for cross-examination of the factors affecting their current condition.

Facilitator Guide:

Participant Handouts:

Beginning Farmers Curricula  © 2025 by Michigan Beginner Farmer Curriculum Team is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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This work is supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program grant no. 2021-70033-35833 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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​Beginning Farmers Curricula © 2025 by Michigan Beginner Farmer Curriculum Team is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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