Cultural Pest Controls

Cultural Pest Controls What is Cultural Pest Control? “Cultural control” is a way of suppressing pests with the way you manage your production. It’s About Interrupting an Insect’s Life Cycle In a traditional agriculture system, common cultural controls... More

Cultural Pest Controls What is Cultural Pest Control? “Cultural control” is a way of suppressing pests with the way you manage your production. It’s About Interrupting an Insect’s Life Cycle In a traditional agriculture system, common cultural controls would be tillage, strategic planting dates, or crop rotation- all practices that in some way interrupt an insect pest’s life cycle. A few of the old cultural controls can be rolled over the greenhouse production, of course, but a different setting requires that greenhouse producers have to rethink the way that they approach cultural controls. Bright Agrotech has found several cultural control methods that fit our greenhouses and aquaponics setup. Here are five of cultural pest control methods to help you: Keeping Your Greenhouse Clean Helps Thwart Pests One method applicable to both traditional agriculture and greenhouse agriculture is sanitation. Plant debris and trash around your greenhouse provides shelter and often food for pests. Yo Less