Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

See attached file below.

The North Central IPM Center provided support for and launched a multistate project in 2018 entitled the Agricultural Production Pollinator Habitat Utilization Survey. The aim was to assess the distribution of bee and pollinators in agricultural settings throughout the North Central region. Eleven state participated in the survey which involved 10 weeks of pollinator monitoring at at least 6 locations. The iPipe app was used for data collection and archival. A potential goal is to accumulate this data for a regional publication.

The North Central IPM Center also operates numerous working groups that involve some of the members of this NCERA group. At a stakeholder meeting held in September, working groups presented "one big thing" to demonstrate the interaction and coordination among members. Highlights are below.

• Ag and Wildlife Coexistence Working Group - Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Generation of 10 Ag-focused wildlife damage factsheets.
• Food Narrative Project - Use strategic frame analysis to develop better ways to communicate about farming
• Great Lakes Fruit Working Group - Stone Fruit IPM for Beginners, Pocket Guide: Apple Harves and Storage Disorders
• Northern Plains IPM Working Group - Developing web-based app for wheat disease identification

Individual states also reported accomplishments and impacts to the group. One impact from each state is outlined below.

Indiana - USB Multi State Take Action Program.  Purdue is the lead institution on this activity (Johnson is the PI) and funding totals are approaching $3,000,000 so far. USB Multi-State Herbicide Resistant Weeds and Crops (Take Action) is an Extension program.  The funds are distributedamong the collaborators to use to support their extension activities and develop new and unique educational pieces to help with addressing herbicide resistant weeds and proper use of new herbicide-resistant soybean varieties.  Each year Johnson host’s an all-day meeting a number of conference calls of the PI’s involved with this regional extension project. After the initial 3 years of the project, USB interest remained high and we were able to obtain funding for an additional 3 years and are currently in the 6^thyear of this project. To date, we have developed over 30new publications, held over 250winter workshops and summer field days on herbicide-resistant weeds and soybeans, and have increased awareness of the impact of herbicide-resistant weeds by over 50% during the grant cycle.  With the success of this program, the extension plant pathology and extension entomology community have asked the weed scientists if they can develop similar programs for soybean diseases and insects and house their information under the Take Action umbrella. We have granted them permission to do this and they have started to populate the website with information.

Iowa State - The Monarchs on the Move Challenge, an initiative produced by the 2018 4-H Ag Innovators Experience (4-H AIE), concluded this August, in Iowa, having reached over 1,000 youth, at 60 events, across 30 counties. The Monarchs on the Move challenge is the result of a collaboration between the National 4-H Council and Monsanto to create the 2018 4-H Ag Innovators Experience (4-H AIE). The goal of each event is to teach students and children about monarch butterflies and the importance of pollinators in crop and food production. The program encourages students to participate in discussions and activities with the intentions of learning about preserving the monarch population and, in general, increasing biodiversity.

Kansas State - The myFieldsplatform is supported largely in part by EIP funding; however, we have successfully leveraged approximately $250,000 additional funds to expand on activities with related projects and collaborations, targeting the goal for IPM adoption to “Ensure a multidirectional flow of pest management information by expanding existing and developing new collaborative relationships with public and private sector cooperators.” In addition, we have initiated discussion with the KSU Office of Commercialization to establish a long-term business model.

Nebraska - Coordinated a statewide extension issue team on resistant and invasive pests. Outputs are below.

• Three regional webinars on resistant pest management were produced on topics ranging from Bt resistance in western corn rootworm, Palmer amaranth, and frogeye leaf spot. 
• Crop Watch newsletter articles on resistance management concepts
• 2018 Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer amaranth Management Field Day for 105 + clientele. Rated extremely useful and timely to learn about control options for atrazine and HPPD inhibitors-resistant Palmer amaranth. The feedback of 72% attendees suggested excellent or above average improvement in knowledge for management of Palmer amaranth in field and seed corn

Michigan State - Short videos have become an increasingly popular way to receive new information. In our federal IPM Extension grant, we invited MSU researchers to leverage their existing grants with extension videos produced within our grant. During 2018, we produced three videos (see publications).

Missouri - The MU Field Crop Plant Pathology program embarked on a broad-based class termed “Summer Scouting Schools”, with training workshops located in each of the four quadrants of the state. These interactive workshops trained over 100 farmers, cooperators, Extension specialists and other stakeholders in identifying and managing common soybean and corn diseases impacting production in Missouri.  In addition to hands-on demonstrations, attendees were trained on the basics of fungicide resistance management, the potential impact of resistant fungal pathogens on production, and which pathogens are high risk. Prior to the workshops, 50% of survey respondents indicated they had little or no knowledge about fungicide resistant pathogens in Missouri field crops, whereas a post-survey indicated 90% of attendees were somewhat to very knowledgeable on the topic.

North Dakota State - From 2008 through 2018, approximately 10,500 North Dakota wheat fields have been surveyed as part of the IPM Survey program. To date, no exotic pests have been detected. The negative results have resulted in the following impacts:

• Annual savings of $30,000 in diagnostic lab fees
• Facilitates North Dakota wheat exports valued at nearly $100 million annually
• USDA now allows North Dakota (and only North Dakota in the entrie U.S.) to certify wheat exports based on official IPM Survey results recognizing North Dakota as an area free from flag smut and dwarf bunt
• Prevents phytosanitary hindrances on North Dakota wheat exports

Ohio State - The IPM Program has been supporting hops pest management for the past four years by hosting several field days throughout the season plus an annual brewing/hops statewide conference where several OSU speakers help organize, resource, and teach individual sessions. In late 2017, two videos about scouting, general pest management and spider mite biological control in hopyards were produced and placed on the OSU IPM Program YouTube website. During the 2018 field season, ten hops field days were held across the state; four were evaluated for grower impact. Participants reported increased confidence in identifying spider mite injury and downy mildew, and their ability to manage these pests (n=15).  Sixty percent of participants reported being very likely or extremely likely to use at least one of the IPM tactics discussed at the meeting, while 34% of participants reported it was very likely or extremely likely what they learned would save their operation money.

Wisconsin - Certified Crop Advisors (CCA) have been important clientele for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension and the IPM Program since the CCA program was implemented in Wisconsin. The IPM program decided to develop a set of YouTube videos designed to meet State CCA Performance Objectives and to also to serve as a reference library for pest managers, producers and other clientele.This reference library now includes 53 videos and over 18 hours of instruction. Videos ranging from 3 to 60 minutes were developed by UW Extension and IPM Staff.  UW IPM staff were also involved with filming, editing and distribution. 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Alford, A. and C.H. Krupke. 2018. A meta-analysis and economic evaluation of neonicotinoid seed treatments and other prophylactic insecticides in Indiana maize from 2000-2015 with IPM recommendations. J. Econ. Entomol. 111:689-699. doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox379

Duffy, A.G., G. Hughes, M. Ginzel and D.S. Richmond. 2018. Volatile and tactile chemical cues associated with Sphenophorus vanutusand S. parvulushost and mate recognition behavior. Journal of Chemical Ecology (Accepted).

Duffy, A.G., G.S. Powell, J.M. Zaspel, and D.S. Richmond. 2018. Billbug (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae: Spehenophorus spp.) seasonal biology and DNA-based life stage association in Indiana Turfgrass. Journal of Economic Entomology. Journal Economic Entomology 111:304-313.

Quesada C. R. and  C. S. Sadof 2018.  Factors influencing insecticide efficacy against armored and soft scales. HortTechnology 28(3) 267-275

Taylor, S.V. and C.H. Krupke. 2018. Measuring rootworm refuge function: Diabrotica virgifera virgiferaemergence and mating in seed blend and strip refuges for Bt maize. Pest Mgt. Sci. In press.

Tooker, J.F., M.R. Douglas and C.H. Krupke. 2017. Neonicotinoid seed treatments: limitations and compatibility with integrated pest management. Agric. Environ. Letters. 2 (1).

EXTENSION PUBS

Richmond, D.Sand C. Sadof. 2018. Japanese beetles in the urban landscape. Purdue Extension Publication E-75-W.

Beckerman J. 2018.  Disease Management Strategies for Horticultural Crops: Fungicide Mobility for Nursery, Greenhouse, and Landscape Professionals. BP-70. 

Beckerman J. 2018.  Disease Management Strategies for Horticultural Crops: Fungicide Rotations for Nursery, Greenhouse, and Landscape Professionals.  BP-71

Bordelon, B., Foster, R., Obermeyer, J., Turner, D., Thompson, A., Hermesch, J. 2018. Integrated Pest management Guide for Hops in Indiana. ID-462-W

Missouri IPM Website - Newsletters: Published 42 articles in the Missouri Environment and Garden (MEG), 32 articles in Integrated Pest and Crop Management (IPCM), and 14 articles in Missouri Produce Growers (MPG).
The website, which includes pest monitoring and other services accounted for 348,321 pageviews during the period (MEG - 182,653; IPCM - 111,724; MPG - 12,125).

Protecting Honey Bees and Other Pollinators from Agricultural Insecticides in Field Crops  https://ipcm.wisc.edu/download/pubsPM/UW_PollinatorFactSheet_final.pdf  

Pest Management in Wisconsin Field Crops (revised) https://fyi.extension.wisc.edu/pat/files/2018/11/2019_A3646.pdf

Commercial Vegetable Production in Wisconsin (revised) https://learningstore.uwex.edu/Assets/pdfs/A3422.pdf

Field Crop Scouting Manual (revised)https://ipcm.wisc.edu/download/pubsPM/UW-IPM-ScoutingManual-web.pdf

EXTENSION VIDEOS

Szendrei, Z. http://bit.ly/squash-bees

Szendrei, Z. http://bit.ly/Bees4Cukes

Landis, D. http://bit.ly/SavingMonarchs