On Target News for February 2007
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Contents:
(includes
only new articles submitted since the last edition of On Target)
Northeastern Region
* It's
Always Open Season on Alien Invasive Plants (Chesapeake Bay Journal)
Connecticut
* Conference
for the Home Gardener - March 9
Delaware
* Delaware
Pest Control Association Annual Short Course, Feb 14-15
* Pesticide Briefs - Jan 19, 2007
Maryland
* Maryland
Invasive Species Council News
* Pesticide Notes - January 2007
New England
* PRO New
England Current Pest News
* PRO New England News by
state and category
New Jersey
* New Jersey
Pesticide Container Recycling for 2007
* IPM (Improved Pest Management) for Horticultural Crops - Feb
23
New York
* Ag
educator brings sound science to NY capitol district farms, wins IPM award
* Greenhouse
Consultant Elise Schillo-Lobdell receives IPM Award
* Hudson
Valley Agricultural Partnership Conference - March 16
* Viticulture
leader wins IPM award
* Curriculum
Guide for Tent Caterpillar Outbreak Programming
* Organic Dairy Managing For Success - Two-Day
Workshop Feb 21 & 28
* What You Need
to Know About Doing Business with Northeast Biofuels in Fulton, NY - February
14
* Empire
State Fruit and Vegetable Expo, Feb 13-15
* IPM Projects
Promote Sound, Sensible Pest Solutions
* CCE Community
Horticulture e-Newsletter January 30, 2007
* CCE Community
Horticulture e-Newsletter January 15, 2007
Pennsylvania
* Greenhouse Industry in PA Continues to Profit
with IPM
* Honey
Bee Die-Off Alarms Beekeepers, Crop Growers and Researchers
* Community Pest Management Partnership Wins EPA
Funding
* Pesticide
Highlights - January 2007
West Virginia
* Look
What's Out There - January 2007
Iowa
* Notes from the Leopold Center - January 2007
Ohio
* Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference -
February 22-23
Southern Region
* Southern Regional IPM
Center News Page
Western Region
* Following the Tracks of a Killer Mountain Beetle (New York
Times, Jan 30)
* In the Rockies, Pines Die
and Bears Feel It (New York Times, Jan 30)
* The Western Front - January 2007
Oklahoma
* Stored Product IPM Training
- April 18-20
National
* Cooperative Conservation Task Force News -
January 2007
* Facilitating
Sustainable Agriculture Education, July 11-14, 2007
* Chairman
Peterson Announces Freshmen Members Nominated to Serve on the House Agriculture
Committee
APHIS
* News from APHIS - January 2007
ARS - Agricultural Research Service
* Extreme
Survival Insect Style (sugar beet root maggot)
* Rhizomania
Resistance Helps Keep Sugar Beets Safe
* Suppressing
Psyllids Could Curb Citrus Disease
* Old-Time
Mosquito Remedy May Work Against Ticks, Too
* Virulent
Hessian Flies Renew Attack on U.S. Wheat
* New
pinto bean variety resists all known strains of bean common mosaic virus
Beyond Pesticides
CSREES
* USDA Honors Texas A&M's Pankiw with Research
Award
* CSREES Update - January 24, 2007
* CSREES Update - January 10, 2007
EPA
* EPA Applauds
Victory in Case Against Puerto Rican Company for Pesticide Worker Safety
Violations
* Availability of Atrazine Watershed Monitoring
Data
* Agency
Announces Proposed Decision on Rodenticides-Invites Public Comment
* Phosmet Final
Decision Released
* EPA Training on
Indoor Air Quality and Mold Control - Feb 15-16
* EPA Pesticide Program
Highlights
* EPA Pesticide News Stories Archive
* Federal Register -
Pesticides - Archive
IPM
Institute
* IPM in the Marketplace - January 24, 2007
IPMnet NEWS
* IPMnet NEWS
Issue #152 January / February 2007
IR-4
* IR-4
Project Newsletter - January 2007
National Plant Diagnostic Network
* 2007 National Meeting of NPDN, Jan 28-31
Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS)
Pest Control Buzz Online
* Pest Control Buzz Online - January 22, 2007
Pesticide.net
* Pesticide.net
Insider eJournal - January 30
* Pesticide.net
Insider eJournal - January 16
Plant
Management Network
* PMN News Update - January 25, 2007
SARE
* SARE Calendar of Sustainable Agriculture Events
USDA
* Administrator's Reports to the Partnership -
archives
International
BCPC (formerly British Crop Production Council)
* XVI
International Plant Protection Congress - October 2007 - Call For Papers
Job Opportunities
* Insect Diagnostician – Utah
State University Extension
* Research Support Specialist
- Long Island Hort Rsch & Ext Ctr – Cornell Univ. Dept. of Plant
Pathology
* Post Doctoral
Associate – USDA - ARS Subtropical Hort Rsch Station / Univ. Florida
* Postdoctoral Assoc - Plant
Disease Resistance – Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca NY
* Research Asst. Professor Immunology – Virginia-Maryland
Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
* SARE National Communications Specialist – SARE
* NRAC Coordinator – Univ. of MD Northeastern
Regional Aquaculture Ctr
* Natural Resources Program
Educator – Cornell Cooperative Extension Onondaga Co.
* Viticulture Extension Educator – Cornell
Cooperative Extension, Finger Lakes Region
* Area Fruit Extension Educator - Fruit Quality
Management – Cornell University
* Area Fruit Specialist - Tree
Fruit and Berry Horticultural Practices – Cornell University
* Extension Educator - Agriculture & Natural
Resources – University of Wyoming, College of Agriculture
* Environmental Horticultural Advisor – University
of California
* Extension Agent, Crop & Soil Sciences – Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University Cooperative Extension
* Agricultural & Resource Management Agent -
Ocean County, NJ – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
* Pest Control
Technician – Pestech, Liberty NY
Funding Opportunities
Northeastern
* Northeast IPM Center's
Vegetable IPM Working Group – Vegetable and
Strawberry IPM Educator Exchange Program
National
* USDA – CSREES – Federally
Recognized Tribes Extension Program (formerly Extension Indian Reservation
Program)
* USDA – CSREES – Regional
Integrated Pest Management Centers
* USDA – CSREES – National Integrated
Water Quality Program