Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as applied to vegetable diseases means using all the tactics available to the grower (cultural, biological, host-plant resistance, field scouting, chemical) that provide acceptable yield and quality at the least cost and are compatible with the tenets of environmental stewardship. This 6-page fact sheet was written by Mathews Paret, Nick Dufault, Tim Momol, Jim Marois, and Steve Olson, and published by the UF Department of Plant Pathology, August 2012.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pp111