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Northeast IPM 1997 Grants Program:
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| State: | New York |
| Investigators: | Waldron, J. Keith |
| Project Type: | Extension |
| Award*: | $12,855 |
| Term: | 12 months |
| Crop: | field crops |
*Award shown is total amount to be used over the course of the project term.
1) To refine a set of IPM elements (practices) that define IPM for field crops producers in New York.
2) To document the effectiveness of six years of Cooperative Extension IPM educational outreach designed to encourage field crops producers to adopt these IPM elements.
3) To discover the strengths of the educational effort and to pinpoint where improvements are needed.
4) To pinpoint where adoption has not been successful due to a lack of acceptable scientific knowledge and methods.
5) To convey the knowledge gaps to the field crops research scientists in crop protection and production departments.
1997 Northeast IPM Funded Projects directory page
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) : What Is It?
1997 NE IPM Funded Grant 97-NE05 loaded March 28, 1997
This page is sponsored by the Cooperative Extension and Land Grant University IPM programs of the Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia) and by the United States Department of Agriculture.
Developed and managed by James R. VanKirk, Facilitator for Northeast IPM Activities.
Technical management: Cheryl TenEyck, NY IPM Program
Design assistance: Karen English-Loeb, NY IPM Program