Practices

Integrated Pest Management

Also Known As IPM

Citation Formats

General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Integrated Pest Management." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/integrated-pest-management.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Integrated Pest Management. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/integrated-pest-management

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-integrated-pest-management,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Integrated Pest Management},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/integrated-pest-management},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Controlling crop pests by combining methods, biological control, resistant varieties, crop rotation, careful monitoring, and chemical treatment used as a targeted last resort rather than a routine spray, instead of relying on a fixed pesticide schedule.

Facts

Practice Class

Pest and disease management 1

Origin

Developed from the 1950s onward as entomologists documented pesticide resistance and the collapse of natural predator populations under blanket spraying; the term itself dates to the 1960s. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Crop Rotation

Crop rotation, breaking a pest's life cycle by denying it the same host in successive seasons, is one of integrated pest management's standard cultural tools.

Source Integrated Pest Management (Wikipedia)

Organic Farming

Cultural and biological pest control, organic farming's own pest strategy, overlaps integrated pest management's toolkit

Source Organic Farming (Wikipedia)