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Vegetable IPM Program

Vegetable IPM Program. Joseph Ingerson-Mahar Vegetable IPM Coordinator Kris Holmstrom IPM Program Associate Sally Walker IPM Program Associate. Program Areas. IPM Services Insect Traps Scouting Program Disease Forecasting Research Educational Outreach. IPM Services: Insect Traps.

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Vegetable IPM Program

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  1. VegetableIPM Program Joseph Ingerson-Mahar Vegetable IPM Coordinator Kris Holmstrom IPM Program Associate Sally Walker IPM Program Associate

  2. Program Areas • IPM Services • Insect Traps • Scouting Program • Disease Forecasting • Research • Educational Outreach

  3. IPM Services: Insect Traps • Blacklight Trap Network: ~ 80 traps, + some pheromone traps • Grower/industry funded: $300/trap • Twice a week monitoring, May - Oct • Delivered directly to grower; summarized weekly for Plant & Pest Advisory • Crops impacted: sweet corn, peppers, tomatoes, snap & lima beans, lettuce, white potatoes

  4. Pest Population Maps GPS map of blacklight trap catches of European corn borer (ECB) as it appears on the internet. B&W version of ECB and CEW maps are in the RCE Plant and Pest Advisory newsletter.

  5. Offshoots of Trap Network • Regional pest mapping project/web site • NJDA exotic insect survey • Private industry support - Seabrook Bros. & Sons, consultants, other agribusiness (chem dealers) • Two posters (National ESA Mtg; International Congress of Entomology), one journal article (Hort Tech) • Historical database

  6. Corn Earworm Regional Participating Farm Trap Catch Summary MapAverage Daily Trap Catches for the week ending: 9/9/2000 Maryland Department of Agriculture New York State IPM Program Penn State Rutgers Vegetable IPM Program University of Delaware University of Maryland USDA, Northeast IPM Program Shelby's Sweet Corn Pest Alert Network A cooperative project by Growers, Extension, Federal and State Goverment.

  7. IPM Services: Scouting Program • RCE Scouting Program • $300 + per acre fee/crop • Sweet Corn, Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant, Cole Crops, Potatoes, Pumpkins for 2000 • Collaboration with Garden State Pest Management company • Private Consultant, grower training, other tech support

  8. Availability of Field Scouting Services

  9. IPM Services: Disease Forecasting Programs South: cooperative effort w/specialist • Potato IPM Fax - late blight, also tag on insect trap data (25 subscribers) • TomCast Fax - early blight forecasts for processing tomato growers (2 processors forward info to ~12 growers North: • Skybit available for tomato growers

  10. Research • Emphasis: • IPM strategies for new crops • Revising methods for current programs • Grower/industry requests, grants • Funding: grants, industry, internal • Advisory groups: • RCE Vegetable IPM Working Group • Pepper Grower Advisory group • White Potato Research committee

  11. 2000 Research Projects • Development of an IPM poster for farm markets • Effect of ECB infestation on white potato yield. • Sampling and identification of soil insects on white and sweet potatoes. • Development of a comprehensive pumpkin IPM program. • Beneficial insect sampling in vegetable crops. • Identification of stinkbugs responsible for injury to tomato fruit. • Sampling pest populations with pheromone traps

  12. IPM Poster Grant funded project Educational poster targeting farm market clientele

  13. Displayed at 10 farm markets in 2000 Fact sheets and a consumer questionnaire provided with posters

  14. Educational Outreach • On-farm programs • RCE Plant and Pest Advisory newsletter • Field scout training: individual and group sessions • Various grower meetings (Twilight Mtgs, Atlantic City, Tomato School) • Other scientific outlets (conferences, journal and proceedings articles) • Annual report: long and short versions

  15. Scout Training Sessions Target audience: private scouts, consultants, growers Individual and group sessions 2000, 2 group sessions: (Introduction to Field Scouting, Mid-season vegetable scouting)

  16. Tomato ICM School Grant funded Fresh market growers - 56 south, 31 north Follow-up field training sessions to be held this summer

  17. Annual Report Long version - RCE administrators, Veg Working Group Short version - vegetable growers, legislators, general public

  18. Future Plans IPM Services • Add pumpkin scouting; delivery program in the north, demonstration project in south • Expand use of blacklight trap network to other commodities? Research • Depends on grant/industry funding • Continue to respond to grower advisory groups

  19. Future Plans Educational Outreach • Continue scout training sessions - add more crop-specific field and off-season training sessions • Produce crop-specific scout training manuals/notebooks, IPM Fact Sheets • Market/promote IPM Poster

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