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IPM-PIPE Basics. Don Hershman IPM-PIPE Steering Committee Chair Univ of Kentucky Jim VanKirk S-IPM Center Director North Carolina State Univ. Outline. Brief overview of IPM-PIPE. IPM-PIPE component public websites. Key features of password-protected website. IPM-PIPE.
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IPM-PIPE Basics Don Hershman IPM-PIPE Steering Committee Chair Univ of Kentucky Jim VanKirk S-IPM Center Director North Carolina State Univ
Outline • Brief overview of IPM-PIPE. • IPM-PIPE component public websites. • Key features of password-protected website.
IPM-PIPE • Integrated Pest Management • Pest • Information • Platform for • Extension and Education
IPM-PIPE Basics • International, multi-institutional, multi-agency, multi-organizational activity: • 41 states/territories, 5 Canadian Provinces, 5 Mexican States • 100’s of individuals are involved. • Facilitated by an Executive Committee and 22 member Steering Committee. • Majority funding from USDA-Aphis in 2005 and USDA-RMA in 2006-07 + significant funding from check-off sources, LGU’s and state government.
IPM PIPE COMPONENTS 1. Soybean Rust PIPE Initiated in 2005 2. Soybean Aphid PIPE Initiated in 2006 3. Legume PIPE Pilot initiated in 2007 4. What’s next?
IPM-PIPE Components are Based on Traditional IPM Template • Collect pertinent information • Analyze information • Access recommendations and make decisions • Keep records • Feed the results back into the loop
What makes the PIPE unique? • Unprecedented coordination and implementation of crop and/or pest-specific IPM activities and pest diagnosis. • State of the art IT for uploading, managing, displaying and archiving crop and pest data. • Large scale use of data to fuel individual and ensemble disease forecasting models. • Efficient end-user interface (public website) to access near real-time national and state-specific, crop and pest conditions, recommendations and documents …..”one stop shopping”.
SBR Public Interface www.sbrusa.net
No public Legume PIPE interface for 2007 • Pilot project only involving password-protected website • Probable public interface beginning in 2008.
Management of state specific data, information and documents via password-protected web access
State-specific documents can be uploaded
PASSWORD PROTECTED INTERFACE FOR OBSERVERS (DATA UPLOAD)