SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NCERA_old222 : Integrated Pest Management
- Period Covered: 10/01/2011 to 09/01/2012
- Date of Report: 07/07/2013
- Annual Meeting Dates: 03/26/2012 to 03/26/2012
Participants
NCERA Representatives: Susan Bissonnette (Univ. Illinois); Darrell Deneke (South Dakota State Univ.); Frannie Miller (Kansas State Univ.); Rick Foster (Purdue Univ.); Brian Jensen (Univ. Wisconsin); Joe Kovach (Ohio State Univ.); Joy Landis and Larry Olsen (Michigan State Univ.); Ian MacRae (Univ. Minnesota); Marcia McMullen (North Dakota State Univ.); Daren Mueller (Iowa State Univ.); Jaime Piñero (Lincoln Univ. of Missouri); Bill Wiebold (Univ. Missouri) and Bob Wright and Steve Young (Univ. Nebraska). NC IPM Center: Sue Ratcliffe (Univ. Illinois); Lynnae Jess (Michigan State Univ.); Jean Haley (Univ. of Illinois) Administrative Advisor: Wendy Wintersteen (Iowa State University) USDA-NIFA: Marty Draper, Bob Nowierski, Liz Ley, Herb Bolton and Mike Fitzner
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Accomplishments
1. Iowa State University - A 14-part IPM set of learning materials, along with copies of ISU Extension field guides and other pest-related publications, and an interactive learning module titled Scouting Fields , was sent to 234 high school and community college agricultural educators in 2011.
2. Kansas State University The inaugural Nursery WORKS conference was attending by 87 participants from 13 states. Attendees represented the wholesale nursery growers, retail nursery operations, landscaping companies, extension and the nursery and landscape association. Example comments included: We will be reassessing our pre-emergent scheduling, and becoming vigilant about timing ; The knowledge gained on tree growth and the hands-on pruning were excellent info that I have taken back and shared with our crews to adjust what we are doing.
3. Michigan State University - IPM resources are provided to Michigan grape producers through publication of the Michigan Grape and Wine Newsletter (http://www.grapes.msu.edu/newsletters.htm). It provides producers with timely information for managing grapes, including insect pest and disease management, and vineyard management and has a distribution of approximately 600 people in the Great Lakes region.
4. Purdue - One of the newer activities of the program is the production of short (generally 2-5 min) IPM videos, on subjects ranging from emerald ash borer to bacterial blight of soybeans to chickweed management to bed bugs. These videos have been compiled at our YouTube channel located at: http://www.youtube.com/user/PurdueExtensionEntm. There have been over 89,000 views of the videos at the YouTube channel.
5. University of Wisconsin - The IPM Toolkit, version 1.0, has been placed on the iTunes app store. The IPM Toolkit was developed to run on mobile devices enabling crop consultants to stay up-to-date as items get posted on the Internet throughout the growing season. The North Central IPM Center (http://www.ncipmc.org/) provided financial support for this project.
Impacts
- Michigan State University - 105 participants attended the IPM Academy. Participants reported the following planned behavorial changes: 89% intend to scout for insects and diseases; 61% intend to scout for beneficial insects; 67% intend to only treat for pests when the economic threshold is reached, as applicable
- UNL - Attendees of the UNL Extensions 2012 Crop Production Clinics influence approximately half the crop production acres in Nebraska, or about 10 million acres. 1. 36% reported moderate or greater improvement in knowledge of management practices that will reduce input costs and/or increase yields. 2. 44% reported that they are already using best management practices to reduce pesticide contamination of the environment, and 35% intended to change their behavior based on what they learned.
- University of Illinois - The Plant Clinic identified a new fungal needle drop on Spruce in Illinois, in 2011, published in Plant Disease.