Integrated Pest Management

IPM or Integrated Pest Management is a strategy of managing pests that is designed to meet an individual’s production goals in the most economically and environmentally sound manner possible using a combination of control tactics.
IPM is a systematic, information-intensive approach which depends upon an understanding of the entire production system. It strives to use several complimentary tactics or control methods to manage pests which makes the system more stable and subject to less production risks. IPM focuses on tactics that will prevent or avoid anticipated pest problems rather than remediate problems once they occur.

Contact Information

Danielle Sekula
Extension Agent-IPM
956.968.5581 (Office)
email: Danielle.Sekula@ag.tamu.edu

***To sign up for Pest Forecasts & Alerts in real time for the LRGV Growing Season:

Current Pest Casts for 2024, & for all other years please keep scrolling down , thank you!

Important Resources in IPM:

Cotton:

Cotton & Grain Scouting School Part 1-2023

Cotton & Grain Scouting School Part 2-2023

Click on link below to access the Cotton insects guide:

Managing Cotton Insects in Texas ENTO-075_2019-Cotton insect management guide

Controlling Volunteer Cotton in Grain Sorghum using Herbicides _2022

Cotton Stalk Herbicide trial _2022-Stalk destruction using herbicides

Cotton Fleahopper Insecticide Efficacy trial_ 2020-Danielle Sekula & Dr. Holly Davis

Controlling Chilli thrips in Cotton Efficacy trial _2022-Danielle Sekula (IPM agent)

chilli-thrips-in-cotton_2022. ENTO- PU- 216

Diagnosis-Management-Foliar-Diseases in Cotton

Herbicide use stalk destruction Report – Dr. Josh Mcginty (agronomist) & Danielle Sekula (IPM agent)

Chilli thrips_28 July – Dr. Holly Davis

 

Sorghum:

Click on link below to access the Sorghum insects guide:

New Sorghum Insect Guide:  managing-insect-and-mite-pests-of-texas-sorghum-2023

sorghum-ergot-new-disease-threat-to-the-sorghum-industry

SorghumErgot_field_identification

False Chinch Bug information:

https://entomology.k-state.edu/extension/crop-protection/sorghum/falsechinchbug.html

https://bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/download/false-chinch-bug-kansas-crop-pests_MF3047

 

Sesame:

2020 Sesame Leafroller Report_ Efficacy report

 

Corn:

Corn Leafhopper

ENTO-PU-229 Corn Leafhopper and the Red Stunt Disease Complex

Southern Rust of Corn_2020 – Information on Southern Corn rust by Dr. Tom Isakeit

 

Pasture & Forage :

Click on link below to access the Forage crops guide:

https://lubbock.tamu.edu/files/2017/08/Managing-Insect-Pests-of-Texas-Forage-Crops-ENTO-064-2017.pdf

 

Variety trial data for Cotton, sorghum, other row crops:

2023 Hidalgo Co. Cotton Variety Trials

2023 Hidalgo Co. Sorghum Hybrids

 

*To Review Past Pest Cast Newsletters simply scroll down to review PDFs below for that Growing Season/ Year:

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2024

PestCast_15_2024

PestCast_14_2024

PestCast_13_2024

PestCast_12_2024

PestCast_11_2024

PestCast_10_2024

PestCast_9_2024

PestCast_8_2024

PestCast_7_2024

PestCast_6_2024

PestCast_5_2024

PestCast_4_2024

PestCast_3_2024

PestCast_2_2024

PestCast_1_2024

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2023

PestCast_1_2023

PestCast_2_2023

PestCast_3_2023

PestCast_4_2023

PestCast_5_2023

PestCast_6_2023

PestCast_7_2023

PestCast_8_2023

PestCast_9_2023

PestCast_10_2023

PestCast_11_2023

PestCast_12_2023

PestCast_13_2023

PestCast_14_2023_July21

PestCast_15_2023

 

 

Videos :

 

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2022

PestCast_1_2022

PestCast_2_2022

PestCast_3_2022

PestCast_4_2022

PestCast_5_2022

PestCast_6_2022

PestCast_7_2022

PestCast_8_2022

PestCast_9_2022

PestCast_10_2022

PestCast_11_2022

PestCast_12_2022

PestCast_13_2022

PestCast_14_2022

Cotton & Grain – 2022 Golf Tournament

soil testing mailer Aug2022

Chemical Stalk Destruction of Enlist Cotton CCAREC2021

PestCast_15_2022

PestCast_16_2022

Cotton & Grain – 2022 Golf Tournament

soil testing mailer Aug2022

Pasture Range & Forage Workshop

 

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2021

PestCast_17_2021

PestCast_16_2021

PestCast_15_2021

PestCast_14_2021

PestCast_13_2021

PestCast_12_2021

PestCast_11_2021

PestCast_10_2021

PestCast_9_2021

PestCast_8_2021

PestCast_7_2021

PestCast_6_2021

PestCast_5_2021

PestCast_4_2021

PestCast_3_2021

PestCast_2_2021

PestCast_1_2021

 

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2020

PestCast_1_2020 – March 20, 2020

PestCast_2_2020– March 27, 2020

PestCast_3_2020– April 3, 2020

PestCast_4_2020 – April 18,2020

PestCast_5_2020 – April 24, 2020

PestCast_6_2020 – May 2, 2020

PestCast_7_2020 – May 8, 2020

PestCast_8_2020 – May 15, 2020

PestCast_9_2020 _ May 22, 2020

PestCast_10_2020  May 30, 2020

PestCast_11_2020-June 5, 2020

PestCast_12_2020 – June 12, 2020

PestCast_13_2020 – June 19, 2020

PestCast_14_2020 – July 1, 2020

PestCast_15_2020 – July 10, 2020

PestCast_16_2020 – July 23, 2020

PestCast_17_2020 – July 31, 2020

PestCast_18_2020 – August 21, 2020

 

Virtual field day flyer – Hosted by Texas AgriScience LLC. 

 

Second Crops After Failed Cotton April 2020 – Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation

Dicamba Training Flyer Online Training Only

Transform WG Label

 

Section 18 labels for Sulfoxaflor (Transform):

R396-225 Transform WG Sec 18 TX Cotton 12March19f

19TX04 signed auth letter

19TX04 Use Directions – sulfoxaflor in sorghum

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2019

PestCast_1_2019 – March 29, 2019

PestCast_2_2019 – April 5, 2019

PestCast_3_2019

PestCast_4_2019

PestCast_8_2019

PestCast_17_2019

PestCast_16_2019

PestCast_15_2019

PestCast_14_2019

PestCast_13_2019

PestCast_12_201

9 PestCast_11_2019

PestCast_10_2019

PestCast_9_2019

PestCast_7_2019

 

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY 2018

PestCast_1_2018 – March 23, 2018

PestCast_2_2018 – March 30,2018

PestCast_3_2018 – April 13, 2018

PestCast_4_2018 – April 20, 2018

PestCast_5_2018 – April 27, 2018

PestCast_6_2018 – May 4, 2018

PestCast_7_2018 – May 11, 2018

PestCast_8_2018 – May 25, 2018

PestCast_9_2018 – June 1, 2018

PestCast_10_2018 – June 8, 2018

PestCast_11_2018 – June 15, 2018

PestCast_12_2018 – June 29,2018

PestCast_13_2018 – July 13,2018

PestCast_14_2018 – July 20, 2018

PestCast_15_2018 – August 3, 2018

PestCast_16_2018 – August 24, 2018

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2017

Pest Cast Newsletter – Issue #1 – 03/31/2017

PestCast_Newsletter – Issue #2 – 04/7/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #3 – 4/14/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #4- 4/21/2017

Sugarcane Seminar 2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #5- 5/5/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #6 -5/12/2017

R396-120 Transform WG Sec 18 TX Cotton 02May17f

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #7 -5/19/2017

Grain FD Flyer 2017 – Rio Farms Field Day

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #8-5/26/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #9- 6/2/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #10- 6/16/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #11- 6/23/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #12- 6/30/2017

PestCast Newsletter – Issue #13- 10/12/2017

 

Working with IPIPE to create better management of Invasive Pests such as sugarcane aphid in Sorghum. 

For more info visit:

https://sites.google.com/site/ipipeed/home

 

Sugarcane Aphid 2016 Presentations

Robert Bowling SCA 2016

Villanueva SCA Weslaco April 2016

Armstrong Weslaco April 2016

Esparza-Diaz 2016 SCA Geospatial analysis

SZapata SCA Impact (041216)

Sugarcane aphid Insecticide labels 2016

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Transform WG Section 18 Use Directions 16TX02

 

 

 

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2016

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2015

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2014

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2013

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2012

PEST CAST NEWSLETTER SERIES – FY2011

 

 

 

 

 

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