On
Target IPM News
October 2007
The OnTarget web page is updated frequently: http://northeastipm.org/news_ontarget.cfm
Email archives: http://northeastipm.org/news_ontargetarchiveindex.cfm
Links to items posted
since the last email edition (except calendar items which have expired):
Northeastern Region
* Northeast Small Farm & Rural Living Expo, Oct
13-14
* SARE Grants offered for
projects in agricultural sustainability
Maine
* State Offers Free Disposal of Banned, Unusable Pesticides in October
Maryland
* Advanced Landscape Plant IPM
PHC Short Course - January 7-11, 2008
Massachusetts
* U Mass Amherst Agriculture
& Landscape Program Events Calendar
New England
* EPA New England - In the News
New York
* NYSPMA Fall Conference,
October 30
* Governor Signs Executive Order
Creating Council on Food Policy
* Lawn care for community horticulture educators, featuring Cornell's turf
grass experts, Oct 23-24
* State Creates New Invasive
Species Council
Pennsylvania
* Childcare Providers in Latino
Community Collaborate to Reduce Pesticide Use
* Asthma Initiative Links Pest
Control and Public Health
* New Asthma Guidelines Stress
Importance of Safe Pest Control
* Widely Used School IPM Manual
Revised, New Features
* Pennsylvania Pesticide
Highlights
West Virginia
* Look What's Out There in IPM -
October 2007
* Look What's Out There in IPM -
September 2007
National
American Farmland Trust
APHIS
* Detection of Panicle Rice Mite
in New York
* Detection of Sirex woodwasp in
Vermont
ARS - Agricultural Research Service
* New Pheromone Sprayer Leads
Amorous Moths Astray
* Areawide Approach to Fire Ant
Control
Beyond Pesticides
* Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog
CSREES
* CSREES Update - Sept. 19, 2007
EPA
* Cumulative Risks Associated with N-Methyl Carbamate Pesticides are Below
Levels of Concern
* Public Meeting on Import Safety
* Comment Period Extended on Pesticides for Initial Endocrine Disruptor
Screening Program
* EPA Fines Two Home and Garden Stores for Selling Cancelled Insecticides
* Final Registration Review Work Plans Available for Nine Pesticides
* Nevada Hardware Store Settles Pesticide Violation
* EPA Clarifies Policy on
Regulation of Ion-Generating Equipment
* EPA To Regulate Ion Generators as Pesticides
* Greenscapes Update, September
2007
* Latest News from the EPA Ag
Center
* EPA Pesticide Meetings
Calendar Page
* Federal Register - Pesticides - Archive
Forest
Service
* Cooperative Weed Managment Areas Growing in the
Eastern Region
IPM Institute
* IPM in the Marketplace Newsletter - September 2007
* IPM Institute Event Calendar
IPMnet NEWS
Legislative News
* President Bush Announces Resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Mike
Johanns
* House Agriculture Committee
News Room
Pest Control Magazine
Plant Management Network
SARE
* SARE
Calendar of Sustainable Agriculture Events
US Geological Survey
* Land Use, Human Activity
Impact Aquifers and Drinking Water Supplies
USDA
* National Invasive Species Information Center - Conferences and Worskhops
Calendar
For news from other
regions, see the OnTarget web page: http://northeastipm.org/news_ontarget.cfm
Funding Opportunities
Northeastern
* EPA - Region 2 -- Sustainable Agriculture
Initiative / Food Quality Protection Act
National
* USDA - CSREES -- Critical Issues: Emerging and
New Plant and Animal Pests and Diseases
* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Plant Biosecurity
* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Biology of Weedy and Invasive
Species in Agroecosystems
* USDA - CSREES - NRI --
Microbial Biology (B): Microbial Associations with
Plants
* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Animal
Protection and Biosecurity (A), (B), (C): Animal Disease, Animal
Well-Being, Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP)
* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Arthropod
and Nematode Biology and Management (A): Organismal and Population
Biology
* USDA - CSREES - NRI --
Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (B): Suborganismal Biology
* USDA - CSREES - NRI --
Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (C): Tools, Resources, and Genomics
* USDA - CSREES - NRI --
Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (D): Protection of Managed Bees
Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP)
Job Opportunities
* Horticulturist - registration of pesticides on
specialty crops -- USDA - ARS (Ohio)
* Specialist, Ag. Environmental Svcs. Div.
-- New Mexico Dept. of Ag./ NMSU
* Postdoctoral Associate - Phytophthora -- Cornell University - Dept. of Plant
Pathology (Geneva)
* Postdoctoral Associate - tomato bacterial canker
-- Cornell University, Dept. of Plant Pathology (Geneva)
* Extension Associate - Coordinator for Deer Program
-- Cornell University
* Extension Agronomy Specialist -- New Mexico State University
* Assistant / Associate Professor -- University
of Maryland, Dept. of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
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