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Integrated Pest Management for Small Grains

Publication 3333 - 126 pages - $22.00

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Addenda Published 6/00

The most comprehensive guide to crop and pest management for wheat, barley, oats, and rye in the west. The manual is clearly and concisely written for growers and pest control professionals. More than 75 University of California researchers and Cooperative Extension specialists contributed to the information in this manual on growth and production of small grains, as well as managing pests.

In addition to the excellent color photographs, 19 black-and-white photos and 69 line drawings and tables cover such topics as:

• scheduling management activities
• identifying important insects and mites
• surveying for weeds
• timing herbicide applications
• disease susceptibility of commonly grown grain varieties
• seed certification
• nonchemical seed treatments
• scheduling planting to reduce root-knot nematode populations
• identifying growth stages
• seedbed preparation
• seeding rates and planting dates
• taking soil and tissue samples for nutrient analysis
• fertilizer recommendations
• irrigation
• conservation tillage
• diseases and nematode pests of other crops that are managed by small grain rotations

Beautifully Illustrated

"Beautifully illustrated...the color plates are worth the price alone!"
—CAPCA Newsletter, reviewing the IPM Manuals

List of Contents

Integrated Pest Management for Small Grains

Growth and Development of Small Grains

Growth Requirements
Development (Growth Stages: Germination and Early Seedling Growth, Tillering and Vegetative Growth, Stem Elongation and Heading, Flowering and Grain Filling, Ripeness Stages  Growth Habit  UCWHEAT Growth Model)
Yield Components (Plant Density and Spike Number  Number of Spikelets per Spike  Number of Kernels per Spikelet  Kernel Weight)

Managing Pests in Small Grains

Pest Identification
Field Monitoring (Timetable of Management Activities)
Control Action Guidelines
Management Methods (Seed Certification  Resistant Cultivars  Cultural Practices: Sanitation, Crop Rotation, Field Preparation, Planting, Irrigation, Fertilization, Harvest, Residue Management  Biological Control  Pesticides: Seed Treatment, Crop Injury, Hazards to Humans, Hazards to Wildlife and Livestock)

Weeds

Management Methods (Crop Rotation  Sanitation  Certified Seed  Field Selection, Preparation, and Planting: Preirrigation, Planting, Fertilizer, Application  Tillage  Harvest  Herbicides)
Monitoring and Identification of Weed Species
Major Weed Species in Small Grains
Perennial Weeds (Johnsongrass  Field Bindweed  Swamp Smartweed  Other Perennial Weeds)
Annual Grasses (Wild Oats  Ripgut Brome  Canarygrass  Italian Ryegrass  Other Annual Grasses)
Annual Broadleaf Weeds (Mustard Family Weeds: Black Mustard, Wild Radish, London Rocket, Shepherdspurse, Tumble Mustard  Borage Family Weeds: Coast Fiddleneck  Sunflower Family Weeds: Annual Sowthistle, Common Groundsel, Prickly Lettuce, Yellow Starthistle, Tarweed  Goosefoot Family Weeds: Common Lambsquarters, Kochia, Fivehook Bassia, Russian Thistle  Other Annual Broadleaf Weeds: Redmaids, Minerslettuce, Chickweed, Corn Spurry, Stickleaf)

Diseases

Field Monitoring and Diagnosis
Prevention and Management (Seed Certification  Resistant  Cultivars  Cultural Practices  Pesticides)
Foliar Diseases (Septoria Leaf Blotch of Wheat  Net Blotch of Barley  Leaf Scald of Barley  Rusts: Stripe Rust, Leaf Rust, Crown Rust, Stem Rust  Barley Yellow Dwarf  Barley Stripe  Powdery Mildew  Bacterial Blights: Bacterial Leaf Streak and Black Chaff, Bacterial Leaf Blight of Wheat, Halo Blight and Strife Blight of Oats  Leaf Blotch of Oats)
Floral Diseases (Smut Diseases: Loose Smut, Black Loose Smut, Covered Smut, Karnal Bunt  Ergot  Black Point)
Root and Crown Diseases (Common Root Rot and Scab  Take-AII)
Abiotic Disorders (Nutrient Deficiencies  Herbicide Injury: Atrazine, Bromoxynil, Chlorsulfuron, Dicamba, Diclofop, Difenzoquat, Paraquat, Phenoxy Herbicides, Napropamide, Pronamide, Trifuralin  Low Temperature Injury  Water Stress)

Insects and Mites

Aphids (Description and Biology: Oat Bird-Cherry Aphid, English Grain Aphid, Greenbug, Rose Grass Aphid, Corn Leaf Aphid, Russian Wheat Aphid  Damage  Management: Monitoring and Treatment Guidelines)
Mites
Stinkbugs
Black Grass Bug
Armyworms
Wireworms
Range Crane Fly
Wheat Stem Maggots

Nematodes

Root-Knot Nematodes (Description and Biology  Symptoms and Damage  Management Guidelines: Crop Rotation, Planting Date, Fallow, Resistant Cultivars, Sanitation)
Root-Lesion Nematode
Stem and Bulb Nematode
Cereal Cyst Nematode

Vertebrates

Pocket Gophers
Ground Squirrels
Norway Rats
Meadow Mice
Rabbits
Birds (Waterfowl  Blackbirds  Starlings  Horned Larks)

Small Grain Rotations as a Pest Management Tool

Soil Structure and Stability
Water and Nutrients
Managing Salinity Problems
Weed Management (Perennial Weeds  Dodder  Annual Broadleaf Weeds: Sunflower Family Weeds, Mustard Family Weeds, Fiddleneck, Goosefoot Family Weeds  Annual Grass Weeds)
Disease Management
Nematode Management
Insect and Mite Management (Diseases and Nematodes Managed with Small Grain Rotations)

References

Glossary

How to Order

Addenda: An 8-page addenda, published in June 2000, includes updates to 20 pages, 4 tables, and 1 figure. A copy of the addenda is shipped free with each book purchase, or you can download the addenda free.

This publication is available from the UC ANR Communication Services catalog. It is also available by mail; by telephone; at the ANR sales office in Oakland; and at many of the UC County Cooperative Extension offices. For more information, see "How to Order Publications."

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