Contain a great deal of useful information of alternatives to synthetic insecticides for use in insect management. Include lists of commercial suppliers. Checks should be made payable to the University of Illinois. Extensive use of actual farm interviews. Seeing the farms and the production methods and marketing used is as informative as the actual interviews with growers.
Small fruit is limited to strawberries and cranberries.
Marketing video is appropriate to all audiences - direct, retail, wholesale and farmers' market. All emphasize a high level of management and the need to develop markets. Other tapes in the series include field crops and rotational grazing. Discusses how he started and developed a profitable, small farm based on organic vegetable production and marketing. Good ideas for equipment, techniques and labor-saving devices yet, doesn't minimize the amount of management and work involved in organic production.