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Ask an Expert: Fruit Fly Death

Got a fruit fly problem?

Aug 2016 | Video

Integrated Pest Management for Turfgrass

This video highlights the five cultural practices needed for proper integrated pest management in turfgrass: (1) mowing, (2) fertilization, (3) irrigation, (4) cultivation, and (5) pesticide selection and use.

Alec Kowalewski | Jul 2015 | Video Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Detecting Plant Diseases in the Lab

The Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hermiston, Oregon has a full- service, plant pathology diagnostic lab that serves the growing needs of the agricultural community in the Columbia Basin. The lab receives ...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson, Cassandra Sago | Jul 2015 | Video Peer reviewed (Gray level)

How to Identify a Plant or Weed

When you want to identify a plant (weed), the first thing you need to do is take a picture of it. Then, collect and press the entire plant, if possible, and record information about it. Record where you collected the ...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Steve M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Video Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Integrating Integrated Pest Management

Insects, weeds and plant pathogens are problems that confront farmers in trying to grow a successful crop. Insect pests can defoliate crop plants. Weeds can outcompete crops for light, water and nutrients. Pathogens can cause disease epidemics that destroy entire crops.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Video

Monitoring diseases in the field

Diseases can reduce the yield and nutritional quality of crops. Vectors are organisms that transmit pathogens that cause diseases and can also threaten crops. Some important vectors of plant pathogens in the Pacific Northwest ...

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Stephen M. Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Video Peer reviewed (Gray level)

Using A Plant Press

Preserving plant specimens is the best way to identify plants by their characteristics at a later period of time. It is always best (if possible) to collect the entire plant specimen at peak production, so you have included the roots, flowers and potentially the seeds of the plant.

Silvia I. Rondon, Mary Corp, Steve Van Vleet, Stuart Reitz, Pamela Hutchinson | Jul 2015 | Video Peer reviewed (Gray level)