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Crop Advisory Team Alert newsletters
The CAT Alerts offer pest and crop management advice for current conditions. The information is written by MSU faculty and Extension educators. Fruit: Tree and small fruit commercial production. Vegetables: Muck and upland vegetables and potatoes. Field crops: Corn, soybeans, dry beans, small grains, forages, sugar beets. See our February 2009 special issue on fine-tuning your fertlizer use. Landscape: Nursery and landscape settings, turfgrass, Christmas trees, forestry, and home/yard. Greenhouse: Commercial production of garden plants. Subscribe to a print edition of the CAT Alert.	Sign up for email notification when new articles are posted.
Thank you to the Michigan Department of Agriculture for funding in support of this web site.
Recent news in CAT Alerts: Tailoring fire blight predictions to your site: The Fire Blight Interactive Predictor Watch winter wheat growth prior to applying herbicides Emeral ash borer treatments for homeowners Spring grub damage on golf course roughs and home lawns Try some of our other IPM resources: Farmers can earn financial incentives for adopting new IPM practices. Grow easy-care native plants to attract pollinators and beneficial insects. Thinking organic? Visit the multi-state New Agriculture Network.	A lady beetle searches for prey on a pear blossom.

The MSU IPM Program maintains this site as an access point to pest management information at MSU. The IPM Program is administered within the Department of Entomology, fueled by research from the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, delivered to citizens through MSU Extension, and proud to be a part of Project GREEEN.
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10/16/09