This project helps Virginia soybean growers minimize yield losses and reduce costs associated with insect pest management by shaping recommendations appropriate to early and late-planted targeted soybean maturities. It also equips producers with the tools and knowledge to scout insect pests. To accomplish this, efforts evaluate insect management strategies, including integrated pest management (IPM) approaches, that consider insecticide selection and spray termination timing, calculate the economic trade-offs between IPM recommendations and standard management plans and make beat cloths, provide them to growers, and demonstrate how to scout for insect pests.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents