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Integrated Pest Management, Biofuels, and a New Green Revolution: A Case Study of the American Midwest

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Agricultural pest control scientists in the American Midwest currently work in a context created by the intersection of three distinct threads of innovation: (1) practices that increased the yields of corn (also called maize, Zea mays L.), (2) new ways of controlling pests, and (3) the use of corn grain and other biomass to produce fuel ethanol. Public policies beginning in the 1970s and strengthening in 2005 promoted the markets for fuel ethanol and thus generated higher average prices for corn producers. The higher prices combined with new insecticidal tools will encourage, under current circumstances, continued reliance on the chemical control strategy for insects attacking corn. Higher prices for corn will also encourage less rotation of corn with soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), which in turn will exacerbate problems with corn rootworms. If production of ethanol from cellulose becomes commercially feasible, Midwestern farmers will probably convert land from corn, soybean, conservation, and pasture to switchgrass (Panicaum virgatum L.) and Miscanthus, thus altering the biological landscape and producing pest control effects that are hard to predict. Farmers currently have a minimal embrace of integrated pest management (IPM), and little suggests that embrace is likely to increase in the near future. As a result, Midwestern corn production remains vulnerable to long-recognized problems with pesticides: resistance, induction of population shifts of various species, and environmental risks. Pest control scientists working within the IPM strategy continue to have stimulating challenges in producing successful IPM practices.

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Perkins, J.H. (2009). Integrated Pest Management, Biofuels, and a New Green Revolution: A Case Study of the American Midwest. In: Peshin, R., Dhawan, A.K. (eds) Integrated Pest Management: Dissemination and Impact. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8990-9_20

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