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.

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.
  
  

Thank you to the Michigan Department of Agriculture for funding in support of this web site.