VEN 118
Managing Pests and Diseases
of Grapevines
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Sustainable Agriculture
• Sustainable agriculture is a system working in
harmony with the environment while continuing
to be highly productive.
• Sustainable agriculture is holistic: it treats the
farm as an integrated whole composed of
elements like soil, plants, animals, and insects
whose interaction can be adjusted and enriched
to solve problems and maximize yields.
• Sustainable agriculture is scientific: it relies on
knowledge about the elements of the system
and their interaction to achieve its results.
Organic Farming
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Organic farms are managed as a whole system that must
be ecologically planned and balanced to improve the soil
and protect the ground water.
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They are managed with older and newer technologies.
They typically try not to farm a monoculture.
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Organic food is produced without residual toxic
chemicals.
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Organic farmers are regulated.
All certified organic foods
must meet strict organic standards.
Farmers and
processors must be inspected annually by independent
certification organizations.
They cannot use synthetic N
fertilizers or most petroleum-based pesticides.
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Biodynamic Farming
• Rudolf Steiner developed a new approach to
science in the early 20
th
Century and called it
‘anthroposophy’.
• Biodynamics is a science of life-forces, a
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- Fall '10
- LarryWilliams
- organic farming, Resistant Cultivars Cultural, Regulatory Resistant Cultivars, Cultivars Cultural Controls/Management, Cultural Controls/Management Biological, • Regulatory Resistant
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