Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management

Weed Scientist

• Pasture
• Range and non-crop noxious weed management
• Noxious and invasive weed ecology
• Public policy / legislation
• Alfalfa extension education

Entomologist

• Vegetable Insect Management (organic and conventional)
• Woody plant/ornamental/nursery insect management
• Turfgrass insect management
• Residental/Household Pests
• General Insect Identification
• 4H Entomology

Plant Pathologist

• Diseases of forest and shade trees
• Geospatial occurrence of forest diseases and their relationships to environmental factors
• Influences on disease occurrence with emphasis on rusts, cankers, and root diseases

Weed Scientist

• Integrated weed management in crop and non-crop environments
• Aquatic Weed Management
• Weed seedling ID
• Herbicide behavior in plants

Entomologist

• Insect and mite pests of:
     • Alfalfa
      • Barley
      • Corn
      • Dry Bean
      • Millet
      • Sorghum
      • Sunflower
      • Wheat
• Grasshoppers in pasture and range
• Russian Wheat Aphid
• Corn spider mites
• Dryland cropping system
• On-line pest management guide

Plant Pathologist

• Disease of commercial vegetable crops
      • Dry Bean
      • Onion
• Geospatical monitoring of plant diseases
• Disease forecasting (COAGMET)
• Dry bean white mold and rust
• Bacterial and viral diseases of onion
• Collection of agricultural images

Plant Pathologist

• Disease diagnostic clinic
• Plains Diagnostic Network & Colorado IPM Coordinator
• Turf, ornamental, and small grains pathology and research
• Co-director of the Center for Crop Biosecurity with H. Schwartz & B. Jacobi

Weed Scientist

• Weed management in field crops
     • Corn
     • Millet
     • Barley
     • Wheat
     • Sorghum
     • Sunflower
• Bioeconomic modeling of weeds
• Field bindweed and Canada Thistle management
• Jointed Goatgrass
• Herbicide resistant weed management

Plant Pathology

C209 Plant Sciences
970-491-1377