Ecological approaches that enhance pulse crop management provide strategies that increase crop health, reduce input costs, increase profit margins by utilizing natures resources to defend against pests and provide water nutrients. Best management practices for field pea, lentils, chickpeas and other pulse crops are incorporated into diverse rotations to optimize production under growing conditions that may vary from eco-region to eco-region. Manipulating seeding rate, seeding date, diverse rotations with weed, disease and insect management systems increases soil and crop health for the overall benefit of the cropping system. The poster will discuss the combining of optimal management practices to improve water relations, nutrition and pest management that increase the competitive ability of the pulse crop.