Northeast IPM 1997 Grants Program:
Funded Projects

Project Title:

Development of a Model Integrated Pest Management Recommendation Document

State:New York
Investigators: Petzoldt, Curtis H.
M. P. Hoffmann
S. Reiners
Project Type:Extension
Award*:$25,000
Term:19 months
Crop: vegetables
potatoes

*Award shown is total amount to be used over the course of the project term.

Objectives

Our goal is to transform the Cornell University Pest Management Recommendations for Vegetable and Potato Production (Pest Management Recommendations) from a document that focuses on pesticides to one that provides all pest management options in a concise and reader friendly format. This revised document would form a model for revision of similar Pest Management Recommendations produced in other states and regions. The revised document would be available in printed and electronic form (WWW). We will accomplish this goal within the context of vegetable cropping systems in New York using the pest complexes of insects, disease, weeds, and wildlife in addition to incorporation of cultural and fertility practices as well as variety recommendations.

1) Integrate all pest management options (e.g., cultural, biological, mechanical, chemical) into the Pest Management Recommendations. Tables 1-3 are draft examples of what we propose to accomplish for all important pests on all vegetable crops for which recommendations are given in New York.

2) Allow for easy translation between the Elements of IPM for each crop to corresponding recommendations in the Pest Management Recommendations. Table 4 is an example of Elements of IPM which are being used in a project in which Cornell University is cooperating with growers, a supermarket and a processor to identify products as IPM grown in the marketplace. An explanation of this project is in the third subsection of Section E. below.

3) Provide for access to the Pest Management Recommendations through printed and electronic media (WWW page format).

4) Provide the resulting printed and electronic format to other commodity groups and states as a template for revision of their pest management recommendations.

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1997 NE IPM Funded Grant 97-NE12

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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