Minutes of SERA-IEG3 Meeting

Athens, Georgia

22-24 March 1999



Chairman: Jonathan Edelson

Secretary Russell F. Mizell, III, University of Florida



Convened at 1:00 at the Georgia Conference Center



Meeting Participants:

D. Teem (Auburn Administrative advisor), W. Lambert (Georgia, Extension advisor), M. Fitzner (CSREES), C. Collison (MS), J. Duthie (OK), A. Herbert (VA), C. Hollier (LA), P. Guillebeau (GA), D. Bridges (GA), J. Edelson (OK), D. Johnson (KY), A. Keinath (SC), M. Linker (N.C.), G. Lorenz, R. Mizell, M. Rumph (AL), R. Seward (TN), R. Stinner (N.C.), K. Vail (TN),

G. Zehnder (AL), N. Thompson (FL-IR-4), R. Bellinger (S.C.), A. Appel (AL), J. Starr (TX).



Introduction by Chairman Jonathan Edelson



Presentations of Past Grant Research by Principal Investigators:

Russ Mizell, University of Florida, two projects, 1) Classical biological control of crapemyrtle aphids and 2) WOODYBUG, CD-Rom on arthropod IPM of nursery pests.

Art Appel, Auburn University, IPM Model and model validation to describe the abundance and management of cockroaches around dwellings. The Auburn cockroach index is on the Web.



Mike Fitzner: Program Objectives and Performance Indicators Document for CSREES Four Year Plan of Work and Reporting.

Mike discussed reasons for the effort and where we are today



Web site for NAS report from a group that looked into measurement of research outcomes:

http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/gpra.html: concluded that outcomes from research are measurable, but only by experts.



Establishing Performance: baseline past or current year.

Collection of Indicator data: twice during 4-year POW cycle.

First and last years optimum, non-reporting years mark report N/A



Data collection points of note:

Rapid Appraisal Methods:

Program objectives:

Identified by scientists

See document handout.



Performance indicators:

A 3 hour discussion of all aspects of the reporting document ensued. Mike Fitzner recorded the results and will continue to develop the document on the reporting systems. No report will be necessary in 1999.

Time line: April-May regional chairpersons and CSREES resolve remaining issues and finalize

June 1: final version distributed

Aug. 2: software for Plan of Work for 2000

Dec. 1: Plan of work submission for 2000.

Feb. 1, 2000 : CSREES approval of POW, release 3, 4 quarter

March-April, 2000: review

Aug. 2000: web-based reporting system

Dec. 1, 2000: first annual report

Feb. 1, 2000: CSREES approval of annual performance report, feedback to states.



Tuesday Morning: Business Meeting

Introductions:

Revised list of members of the SERA-IEG committee who should be extension and/or research contacts from each state - can be the same person for each.



Review and Certification of the minutes by the group. Minutes were approved unanimously from motion by Gus Lorenz, seconded by Geoff Zehnder.



Report from Administrative Advisors: David Teem, Bill Lambert, UGA, standing in for Jack Bagent.

David Teem:

SRIEG ends this year and renewal has been requested.

List of people for committee: originally appointed by Experiment Station Directors to come from both extension and research.

SRIPM-grants -1999 cycle: Forty-five preproposals and 34 full proposals were solicited. Only 1 preproposal was submitted for extension section and only 5 for "systems" area. Preproposals are reviewed by a subcommittee of Administrators. A different committee made up of scientists from outside the southern region review the full proposals. Dr. Teem suggested that all areas of RFP and process should be discussed during the meeting. We need a WEB page for the SERA-IEG (Ron Stinner agreed to do the WEB site) that contains the meeting minutes, member contacts and other project information.

Charge of the SERA-IEG Committee: Southern Extension Research Activities- Information Exchange Group: A group to help provide guidance to Directors for IPM activities in the southern region.

Bill Lambert: Welcome to UGA campus. Bill will represent the Extension Directors from now on and offered to communicate our needs to rest of the extension directors.



Grant proposal cycle: Dr. Teem intends to move the cycle back to the old time frame. RFP released will be released in June.



Annual State Reports: Res/Ext.

AL: Lost some key positions : urban turf and ornamentals and livestock IPM position, lost Plant Pathology in cotton. Active in tree fruit, forage and row crops, forestry and vegetables. As a result they are working more with agents to communicate and update pest status, etc. Working with NAPIAP to develop profiles of crops.

AK: 3D money being used for IPM program development in critical pesticide use crops: cotton for example- they are funding the county agents to develop their own IPM programs, now addressing rice, soybean is next. Peach IPM program is being developed. Musk thistle removal from forages in cooperation with other agencies such as NRCS, etc. They have identified School IPM as an area to address

FL: Old FAIRS system now the EDIS publication system. A new database management structure is being developed to deliver management recommendations and a digital diagnostic submission network is online through north Florida counties.

GA: Now consider that all of cotton is under IPM . Ornamental efforts have developed a scout school. IPM in schools is being addressed: a survey was done in cooperation with LEAF organization. Working with TN to have satellite uplink to give schools information on IPM.

Forestry information on web. Digital diagnostic submission network is in development. Have a program in musk weevil for biological control of thistles in a few counties.

KY: (Handout) field crop scout school, web site up and running. Developed computer-based insect degree day modeling and training program and on GIS uses.

LA: cotton has most emphasis and now are emphasizing weed and plant pathology programs. School IPM program is up and running mandated by state government. Working closely with PAT and SARA-ACE programs. Working closely with Master Gardener program to incorporate IPM programs in their materials. View that there is a need to publicize their efforts.

MS: will initiate a mini-grants program this year. DDIS program is underway. Developing an extension IPM computer curriculum. Cotton IPM receives most attention along with greenhouse tomatoes and others.

NC: moving toward a national IPM database www.reeusda.gov/nipmn

nipmn, password is network. Looking for comments on this site. Center for IPM has a grants program. Held second (first 1970- Rabb) IPM conference in Raleigh in March with about 300 attendees. Plea: if you complete crop profiles please put pictures in them. Mike Linker: school IPM manual and website are available and is developing a web-based curriculum. Row crops, apples and turf are big efforts. New soybean scouting guide will be out soon.

OK: Mike Fitzner is filling in for six months for Gerrit Cuperus. Developing a stakeholder workshop and soliciting input from faculty and IPM people in OK in preparation to writing a vision document for the program's future. Video diagnostics being developed around the state. Jim Duthie: turf IPM program is hiring a new position.

Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands: no attendance

SC - Clemson: Lost some positions, have a mini-grants program. Putting pest management guides on web site. Peach and apple guides are being done in collaboration with Georgia and North Carolina. Have a 800 number for gardeners which contains IPM information. PAT and IPM

http://entweb.clemson.edu/pesticid.

TN: Cotton is receiving a lot of emphasis especially with diseases as are nematodes in soybeans. Continue traditional emphasis on projects developing materials and holding scout training for crop advisers and private sector. Trying to improve net returns and reduce pesticide inputs. School IPM program is up and running. Making an urban IPM webpage and manual. Landscape IPM training program and manual is now in place.

TX: no report.

VA: Have implemented a mini-grants program. Conducted an IPM survey on corn, soybean and alfalfa in cooperation with PA and MD. Hired several new positions that are on board. Have implemented an IPM advisory committee of VPI faculty.

CSREES -Mike Fitzner: Hiring a program specialist. Developing an agency IPM web site that has budget information, http://www.reeusda.gov/ipm funded projects, links to states, etc.

IR-4 Representative: Admin. Advisor, Neal Thompson, University of Florida.

Bob Home is new executive director of IR-4. Short IR-4 history:

1963 Program started.

1970 EPA initiated.

1973 first funding nationwide, 4 states lead : Cornell, Florida, Mich. St., Davis.

National Program at $8.99 mil 1999. They figure the states add two times this amount.

Rutgers has headquarters operation- Hatch funds of $500K

FQPA with "Bright Line" a commodity that has 300,000 acres or less is considered a minor crop.

corn 73 mil ac, cotton 13 mil ac, soybean - 62 mil. IR-4 follows Good Laboratory Practices in all of their research which consumes ca. 30% of funds.

Focus under the IPM umbrella.

For minor crops:

Number of trials determined by productivity of crop and potential exposure to crop by women and young children. Those areas are where the trials are conducted.

Headquarters prepares all the petitions based on the data collection. The schedule is to have everything done in 30 months.

NAPIAP: Bob Bellinger- mentioned the old Green Book that contains production practices - now Food and Feed Crops of the U.S. from Meister Publishing. NAPIAP obtains registrations for pesticides under the threat from FQPA. Doing crop profiles and assessments to meet the FQPA needs. About 60 profiles are on the web site http://pestdata.ncsu.edu/cropprofiles.

Have regional grants program, RFP comes out in fall. FQPA issues will be addressed.

Revised risk assessments of certain pesticides from EPA are coming out soon. So far they mainly concern exposure rather than dietary risks.



National IPM Committee Meeting Overview (J. Edelson):

Risk Avoidance and Mitigation Programs (RAMP) for cropping systems grant program: FQPA is driving the needs. Long term higher level systems approaches - ca. $10mil. requested.

Crops at Risk (CAR) from FQPA implementation : shorter term for fruits and vegetables. Smaller and shorter term grants - ca $5 mil.

Same budget proposal has an new $1.5 million for extension IPM.

Other avenues of funding: regional case studies to document IPM in certain crops. CSREES and other USDA agencies will fund meeting proceedings. Regional publications that

have impact. School IPM may be a topic of interest to summarize what has been done.



IPM Brochure from the Directors: Bobby Pass is heading the effort. June 1 it should be done. He needs reviewers for the document. The meeting mail list was suggested. There was some confusion on what the publication actually contains: success stories and/or reports from grant research. Last years minutes indicate that $5,000 was allocated to do a publication around reports of results of grants.



Handout of RFP from 1999.

Discussion ensued about what is needed for the project to promote our results and to handle accountability. Motion was made by D. Johnson and seconded by C. Collison that we let M. Fitzner coordinate the request for reports and get them posted on the web. The motion was amended by R. Stinner, seconded by G. Lorenz, to state that a committee be appointed by the Chairman to reach a long-term solution. Committee was appointed: S. Jubb, R. Stinner, G. Zehnder, R. Mizell. D. Teem commented that we have Skip Jubb as grants manager and that we have operated heretofore on the idea that the minimum amount of money be spent on administration of the grant program to maintain the maximum in the awards.



Bobby Pass: Capacity as Project Coordinator: grant program (D. Johnson-KY).

Weed science is still a problem, low submission rate, add on rather than main objective.

1998 program had 2 funded in extension/research category, 3 in extension and 8 funded under research.

1999: 45 preproposals, 34 were requested for full proposals. Only one extension proposal.

Four full proposals were submitted in the Systems category.

EPA withdrew their $25,000 contribution from the systems category.



SRIPM Grant RFP:

The weed Science extra credit issue was addressed as to its efficacy and impact. A motion was made by R. Mizell and seconded by G. Zehnder to maintain the current RFP for one more year before we considered revising it. The motion passed.



Review Panel Issues relative to the Grant Proposals:

M. Fitzner described the use of a relevancy panel (stakeholders) for the PMAP grant program in addition to the scientific evaluation panel. The northeast region decided to do something similar in 2000 for their grants program. The logic behind this is it is a response to accountability and user participation needs for agency programs mandated by Congress. No consensus was reached after a vigorous discussion as to the pros and cons of convening some type of relevancy panel to participate at some point in the grants process.



Advocacy for IPM: What is going on in the states?

National IPM Coordinator Position with CSREES: one year IPA. They need someone to start July 1999.

Any interest to have a year 2000 national symposium? Discussed at national coordinator's meeting. Linker and Edelson volunteered to work on developing.

NAS surveys: Group can submit questions to determine IPM implementation. NAS has a rigid calendar and you have to get into the process at the proper time. There is a Fall area survey (on NAS web site and a little booklet - 24 questions dealing with IPM grouped in PAMS construct) that is ongoing and also a survey of commodities on a two year cycle. Ames Herbert was appointed to head a committee along with Karen Vail and Mike Linker.

Draft Survey of SRIPM funded grants since 1990-1995 by D. Lameck and H. M. Linker.

Ecologically-based IPM or is it IPM was discussed briefly. An NRC meeting was held in Raleigh concerning ecologically-based IPM. Neal Van Alpin organized the meeting. Issue was discussed for short period no consensus.

Regional IPM Centers: Harold Coble. There may be as many as 4-12 regional IPM centers in EPA's regions at .$5-.7 mil + grower input to total up to $1 mil apiece for the purpose of developing stakeholder advisory boards, information development and research in crop regions. Money will go to these groups. This is still in the development stage. They will provide data and information on the specific regions and giving planning and oversight and regulatory issues. The centralization of decision making. They would like to see these Centers have some regulatory authority and marketing IPM.



Meeting Year 2000:

Site Selection for next year's meeting. Dallas was selected as the location with J. Edelson and/M. Merchant hosting at a hotel to be decided. The program will highlight the School IPM efforts.

Karen Vail was elected as the new group Secretary.

Time of next meeting: 20- 22 March 2000 beginning at 1:00PM Monday and ending at 12:00 PM on Wed. On Monday PM the program will be presented. Coordinator's meeting will be on Wed. morning. If extra time is needed we will work a few hours following dinner.



Region Facilitator Position: G. Zehnder volunteered to develop proposal along with the support of CSREES to hire a person to serve as a facilitator of IPM in the southern region. The participants unanimously agreed this was a good idea. The plan is to develop a proposal to present to the Directors for approval.



Extension Coordinator's Meeting: Wednesday Morning

School IPM: Discussion about new grant funding from EPA and a proposal put forth at another meeting by M. Lame from Indiana University. The possibility of a more focused regional approach in the Southeast was discussed. M. Fitzner suggested that a "success story" brochure be developed. Other members suggested that the best approach was to have a regional workshop for two people from each state to educate everyone on what is available in resources and approaches to use in program development. This was agreed to and the date set was 22-23 April in Atlanta. Speakers and agenda will be set later. Paul Guillebeau will make the local arrangements.



GPRA related Discussion:

M. Fitzner presented a revised method of surveying growers to document IPM implementation. A handout was provided. The survey was discussed and the consensus was: it was easy to use, would provide answers to appropriate questions on tactics and numbers of growers who adapted them and their intentions to continue the practices. A view was expressed that a similar approach could be used to document implementation with any target groups.



Distance Diagnostic Submission Systems in various states were briefly discussed.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:00AM.



Mail List: SERA-IEG3 Southern Region IPM Group



Alabama

Mark A. Rumph

Department of Entomology

204-A Extension Hall

Auburn University, AL 36849

mrumph@acesag.auburn.edu

334-844-6390

Fax: 334-844-5002



Arkansas

Gus Lorenz, III

University of Arkansas CES

PO Box 391

Little Rock, AR 72203

glorenz@uaex.edu

Office: 501-671-2191

Fax: 501-671-2303



William Yearian

Department of Entomology

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701

wyearia@comp.uark.edu

USDA

Michael Fitzner

USDA CSREES

Mail Stop 2220

1400 Independence Ave., SW

Washington, DC 20250-2220

mfitzner@reeusda.gov

202-401-4939

FAX: 202-401-4888



Patricia McAleer

USDA CSREES

Mail Stop 2220

1400 Independence Ave., SW

Washington, DC 20250-2220

pmcaleer@reeusda.gov

202-401-6223

FAX: 202-401-4888



Florida

Russell F. Mizell, III

NFREC-Monticello

Route 4, Box 4092

Monticello, FL 32344-9302

rfm@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu

850-342-0990

FAX: 850-342-0230



Georgia

Paul Guillebeau

Department of Entomology

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602

pguillebeau@bugs.ent.uga.edu

706-542-9031



William R. Lambert

Assistant Dean for Extension

109 Conner Hall

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602

blambert@arches.uga.edu



David Bridges

Crop and Soil Sciences Department

University of Georgia

Griffin, GA 30223

dbridges@gaes.griffin.peachnet.edu

770-228-7213

FAX: 770-412-4734



Kentucky

Doug Johnson

Research and Education Center

PO Box 469

Princeton, KY 45245-0469

djohnson@ca.uky.edu



Bobby Pass, Chair

Department of Entomology

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY 40546-0091

bpass@ca.uky.edu



Louisiana

Clayton Hollier

PO Box 25100

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70894-5100

chollier@agctr.lsu.edu

225-388-2186

FAX: 225-388-2478



Jack Bagent

Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service

Louisiana State University

PO Box 25100

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

225-388-6083



David Boethel

Department of Entomology

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

dboethel@agctr.lsu.edu

(225)388-3974

FAX:(225) 388-6032



B. Roger leonard

Dept. of Entomology

LSU

Baton Rouge, LA 71295

rleonard@agctr.lsu.edu

(318) 435-2157

FAX: (318) 435-2133



Mississippi

Clarence Collison

Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology

Drawer Box 9775

Mississippi State, MS 39762

chc2@ra.msstate.edu

662-325-2086

FAX: 662-325-8837



North Carolina



Mike Linker

Crop Science

North Carolina State University

Box 7620

Raleigh, NC 27695-7620

mike_linker@ncsu.edu

919-515-5644

FAX: 919-515-5315



Ron Stinner

North Carolina State University

1017 Main Campus Drive, Suite 1100

Raleigh, NC 27606

cipm@ncsu.edu

919-515-1648

FAX: 919-513-1114



Oklahoma

Gerrit Cuperus

Oklahoma State University

Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

Stillwater, OK 74078

bugs1@akway.okstate.edu

(405) 744-9419

FAX: (405) 744-6039

James Duthie

Oklahoma State University/WWAREC

Box 128

Lane, OK 74555

jduthie-okstate@lane-ag.org

580-889-7343

FAX: 580-889-7347



Jonathan Edelson

OSU/WWAREC

PO Box 128

Lane, OK 74555

jedelson-olstate@lane-ag.org

(580) 889-7343



Puerto Rico

Osvaldo Cotte

Hort. Extension Service

Bldg. C-202

PO Box 5000

University of Puerto Rico

Mayaguez, PR 00681-5000

o_cotte@seanpoint.upr.clu.edu



Carlos Cruz

Crop Protection Department

College Ag. Sci.

PO Box 5000

University of Puerto Rico

Mayaguez, PR 00681-5000

car_cruz@rumad.upr.clu.edu



South Carolina

Anthony Keinath

Department of Plant Pathology

Coastal Research & Extension Center

2865 Savanna Highway

Charleston, SC 29414-5332

tknth@clemson.edu

843-766-3761

FAX: 843-571-4654



Geoff Zehnder

Department of Entomology

Long Hall

Clemson University, SC 29634



Tennessee

Karen Vail

University of Tennessee

Entomology & Plant Pathology Section

PO Box 1071

Knoxville, TN 37901

kvail@utk.edu

423-974-7138

FAX: 423-974-8868



Texas

Tom Fuchs

Texas Ag. Ext. Service

7887 US Hwy 87 N.

San Angelo, TX 76901

t-fuchs@tamu.edu

(915) 553-4576

FAX: (915) 655-7791

Jim Starr

Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology

Texas A & M University

2132 TANU

College Station, TX 77843-2132

j-starr@tamu.edu

409-845-8278





Virginia

D. Ames Herbert

Tidewater Agric. Research & Extension Center

6321 Holland Road

Suffolk, VA 23437

herbert@vt.edu

757-657-6450 ext. 122

FAX: 757-657-9333



Gerald Jubb, Jr.

VPI & SU

104 Hutcheson Hall

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0402

jubbg@vt.edu