>I agree with Allen....IPM is so often used as a false code for "natural", "almost organic", or "chemical free"....it is no such thing. IPM is a methodology for using treatments of various kinds...it is not an indication of what treatments are or are not used.
I would describe IPM as a system of graduated response.
Dr Everett Deitrick, of of the founding fathers of the American IPM program, described it as follows: http://www.dietrick.org/articles/five_features.html
In time, however, he came to see it as a fast track to justify the preestablished choice to use pesticides: http://www.dietrick.org/articles/acres_interview.html
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