ABSTRACT
Cultural control is any farm practice that is used with some consideration for insect management. In this context, a farm practice is a multipurpose agricultural operation used for profitable crop production as a fundamental priority, such as choosing seed, planting, cultivating, or harvesting. Farming operations can have positive, negative, or neutral influences on insect populations, and knowledge of all three impacts is useful in making cultural control decisions. Traditionally, cultural control has referred to the use of farming practices to manage insects [14]. This simple idea is too restrictive and does not include concepts associated with risk management. In the current context, cultural control also includes methods that avoid creating hazardous crop environments for insect infestations (i.e., preventative pest management).
