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The Importance of Holistic IPM for Cannabis Operations | Interview with Dan Banks of Lightshade

Cannabis cultivation is a complex process that requires a great deal of attention to detail. Implementing a holistic IPM program is essential to producing the highest quality product. In this interview, Dan Bank, VP of Cultivation Production from Lightshade, discusses the importance of IPM and how it benefits both the grower and the consumer. We cover how we can control pests and some of the benefits of using an integrated pest management approach. Contact Us: https://cerescann.com/contact/ Website: https://cerescann.com/ Instagram:   / ceresgreenhouse   Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com./ceresgreenhouse/ Video chapters: 00:00 - Introductions 01:35 - What is IPM? 06:00 - Benefits to a holistic IPM strategy 07:45 - Lightshade's IPM program 12:35 - Preventative IPM practices 15:26 - Dan's favorite biological control 21:21 - What does Dan's dream grow look like? For more about Lightshade, visit their website: https://lightshade.com/ Transcript: Here we go, all right well hello everyone this is Sunny Kaercher with series greenhouse solutions and today I am here in spirit and on the screen with Dan Banks, who is the VP of cultivation and production or lightshade Dan and I have known each other for a while and a variety of different roles and would love to just kick it over to you. Dan, for a little introduction before we dive into our topics today about items, that's great. Thank you, Sunny so, as Sunny mentioned, I'm currently VP of cultivation production with lightshade, and we are a vertically integrated operator in the Denver area, so we've got five cultivation facilities and dispensaries, and then my background is in horticultural science and entomology which I studied at CSU, and then I've been working in the Cannabis Industry since, so been in the industry for a while in a number of different roles and in the current one on the kind of cultivation side we've got an IPM team that services all of our facilities and then the rest of the cultivation roles are all facility-specific, but we, kind of handle all of those different things in-house and happy to run through any of those practices or anything else you're interested in. Why don't we just start off for anyone that hasn't heard about IPM or is new to horticulture, defining what that acronym is and some of the basic principles? Sure, so, IPM stands for Integrated Pest Management and if you look it up you're gonna see a lot of different definitions but I would kind of just generally say that it is a multifaceted and proactive approach to pest management that is grounded in applied ecology and what that really means is that you have to have a strong awareness and understanding of the biology of your crop and then also the biology of the organisms that affect it and then how the environment affects both of those things and then you use that understanding to kind of break apart the pest life cycles and see how you can most effectively control them using a variety of different things and the basis of any IPM program is really scouting, so going out and collecting information about what is present in the crop what kind of damage might be happening what those organisms are and then once you have that you start to look at controls and there's kind of a hierarchy of control in IPM and so we start with things that are really proactive and kind of passive so the structure of the facility any sort of barriers to pests that you might have like, soda greenhouse thrip screening would be a great example or for more enclosed production looking at air filtration and then beyond that you're also looking at your environmental controls, so how you're able to manipulate the humidity of the environment the temperature lighting all of those things and then next you get into the cultural practices and so that's everything about how you're growing your plants and the techniques you're using throughout cultivation. ...