SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: OLD S1080 : Improving Soybean Arthropod Pest Management in the U.S.
- Period Covered: 02/16/2022 to 03/12/2023
- Date of Report: 05/12/2023
- Annual Meeting Dates: 03/12/2023 to 03/12/2023
Participants
Angus Catchot (Administrator, Mississippi State University) Ben Thrash (University of Arkansas), David Owens (University of Delaware), Dominic Reisig (North Carolina State University), Don Cook (Mississippi State University), Fred Musser (Mississippi State University),Janet Knodel (North Dakota State University), Jeremy Greene (Clemson University), Joe LaForest (Southern IPM Center), Joseph Spencer (University of Illinois), Justin McMechan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Kelley Tilmon (The Ohio State University), Louis Hesler (USDA-ARS), Michael Crossley (University of Delaware), Raul Villanueva (University of Kentucky), Robert Koch (University of Minnesota), Robert Wright (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Sally Taylor (Virginia Tech), Scott Graham (Auburn University), Sebe Brown (University of Tennessee), Silvana Paula-Moraes (University of Florida), Tyler Towles (Louisiana State University), Whitney Crow (Mississippi State University),
Accomplishments
Numerous scouting efforts, research trials, and insecticide tests conducted by all members of the S1080 group to inform stakeholders, refine management decision aids and guidance, and provide knowledge base for advancing IPM practices. In addition, new species were noted from several states. Multiple pests monitored with pheromone traps (stink bug, corn earworm, soybean looper, Helicoverpa armigera). Soybean insect losses are compiled annually. The report covering 2021 includes data from 18 states representing 54% of U.S. soybean acreage. Over time, the changes in infestation and injury reported can provide an indication of the spread or contraction of insect populations with changes in weather and production practices.
Insecticide resistance monitoring continuing in multiple states targeting multiple pests, including Spodoptera exigua, soybean aphid, soybean looper, and corn earworm. New control technology was evaluated by members and demonstrated that nanoparticles have promise to deliver insecticides.
25 peer reviewed publications were authored or co-authored by S1080 members in the previous year, as well as 18 non peer-reviewed articles and publications, not to mention innumerable blog posts giving in-season updates for stakeholders.
Webinars, videos, and blog posts are the primary means of educating stakeholders in-season along with county and state-level extension meetings. These efforts are partially responsible for saving significant amount of money by stakeholders. North Carolina estimates that a major Extension effort targeting stink bugs alone via the NCCE portal system, assuming 15% of NC soybean acres were treated according to extension recommendations, growers would have secured an estimated savings of over $2.4 million.
Impacts
- Webinars, videos, and blog posts are the primary means of educating stakeholders in-season along with county and state-level extension meetings. These efforts are partially responsible for saving significant amount of money by stakeholders. North Carolina estimates that a major Extension effort targeting stink bugs alone via the NCCE portal system, assuming 15% of NC soybean acres were treated according to extension recommendations, growers would have secured an estimated savings of over $2.4 million.
Publications
Publication citations are in the attached S1080 state reports submitted for the annual S1080 meeting.