One in four jobs in Nebraska are related to agriculture. With one of our main industries being agronomic crops, crop scouting is important to learn. This lesson will test the students' knowledge of all things pests and challenge them to identify the problem in a field.
These FarmFood360° tours will allow students to visit farms across Canada, hear from real farmers, and test their knowledge at the end of each tour.
Students will identify nutrient deficiencies in crops to determine plant nutrient requirements for optimum growth. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
This course gives an overview of integrated pest management focusing on corn and soybeans and introducing the basics of scouting, plant pathology, management of insects, diseases, and weeds, and discusses pesticides and human and environmental topics related to their use.
Resources on local food production, including fruit and vegetable production strategies, pest management, marketing, food safety, horticulture budgets, and regulations.
This lesson plan and complimentary resources describes and classifies common pests, favorable conditions for pests, and the way pests affect plants and cause losses. Students will explain Integrated Pest Management and methods used to control plant pests. Lesson plan from the New Mexico Animal, Plant, and Soil Science Lesson Plan Library.
Concise lesson plan template asking for the 'essential question', objectives, interest approach, content/procedure/activity, and closure/check for understanding. Developed by Matt Kriefels.
This series of resources includes a lecture and activities to define what makes a plant a weed, classify weeds according to life cycles and as monocotyledons or dicotyledons, compare morphological characteristics and functions of different types of leaves, and identify local major weeds.
eGRO University - Electronic Grower Resources
A series of video lectures and tutorials on a wide variety of topics, a resource of over sixty full-length presentations!