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How to receive the
Landscape CAT Alerts by mail or receive a e-mail notification when new issues
are posted on the Internet |
The Landscape
Crop Advisory Team (CAT) Alerts consist of 18 issues each season: 16 during
the growing season plus pre- and post- season issues. The price
for a mail subscription is $35. Print the
linked form (or a pdf form) to subscribe
and receive the printed/mailed version of the newsletter.
Internet readers can
signup here at the web site to receive an e-mail message each time a new
issue is posted (instructions). The Landscape
Alert will begin its annual publishing season in mid-March.
About the Landscape Alert
newsletter
The Landscape Alert
newsletter is your connection to the experts at Michigan State University.
During the busy growing season, the CAT Alert newsletter provides
timely pest management information based on current conditions. You get
insect, disease and weed management recommendations for nursery stock,
Christmas trees, turfgrass and other landscape settings. We discuss general
management of turfgrass for golf courses, athletic fields, and lawns.
Articles include reports from MSU's Diagnostic
Services, weather features with growing degree day totals and precipitation
totals, and advice for your home and yard about insect and other pest management. We have updates on emerald ash borer including the latest on management options. We also have
a separate newsletter, the Greenhouse Alert,
for those growing bedding plants that is published January through May.
MSU Extension’s field and campus staff combine
expertise to serve you best
Our
knowledge of current landscape pest concerns is gathered during weekly
conference telephone calls. The calls link MSU Extension county staff
and faculty with Michigan Department of Agriculture nursery inspectors
and field staff of the Department of Natural Resources. Based on discussions
during the calls, faculty write newsletter articles with timely advice
for managing pests and growing
plants in healthy landscapes.
Send your subscription
in any time during the year. We’ll send back issues from the current
publishing year, if you subscribe before July 1. After July 1, the subscription
fee is half-price and does not include back issues. Editions of the
Alert are also available for: vegetables, field crops, greenhouse, and landscape/Christmas trees.
Contact J. N. Landis, landisj@msu.edu,
Last revision 02/15/06
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