A Biological Control Buffet in the Salad Bowl of America

A NATURAL 'all you can eat' BUFFET keeps BENEFICIAL ORGANISMS working on the FARM year-round. HEDGEROWS, COVER CROPS & INSECTARY PLANTS provide this BIODIVERSITY which helps farmers CONTROL PESTS WITHOUT PESTICIDES and makes the farm more SUSTAINABLE and BEAUTIFUL.

This FUN video by USDA-ARS scientist Dr. Eric Brennan
-explains how this works at the Agricultural Research Service's organic farm in Salinas, California, in high-value production systems for VEGETABLES & STRAWBERRIES.
-provides some details on DROUGHT-TOLERANT, native perennials hedgerows for California.
-describes some CHALLENGES, and NOVEL STRATEGIES to make intercropping vegetables with a common insectary plant (alyssum) MORE EFFICIENT.

FOOD SAFETY PAPER mentioned
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/35/11126 (Comanaging fresh produce for nature conservation and food safety)

HEDGEROW links
http://caff.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/BiodiversityBrochure.pdf (Biodiversity Brochure)
-http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/NRCS_Specifications_California_Hedge_web.pdf (USDA-NRCS Spec. Cal. Hedgerows)
http://ucfoodsafety.ucdavis.edu/files/26499.pdf (Estab. Hedgerows in Calif.)
http://caff.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Hedgerow_manual.pdf (Hedgerow Manual)

INSECTARY PLANT links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVLgt2_J1Wk ((Video on Efficient Intercropping Lettuce with Alyssum )
http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8285.pdf (Hoverfly Publication)

COVER CROPS links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8yVDphBm78 (Cover cropping is like juggling)
http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably-3rd-Edition (Managing Cover Crops Profitably)

First presented in November 2015 at the International Annual Meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, and Entomological Society of America in Minneapolis, MN.

Видео A Biological Control Buffet in the Salad Bowl of America канала Dr Eric Brennan USDA-ARS