Dairy Fly Management - IPM Teleconference

Dairy Fly Management - IPM Teleconference - May 3

A two hour Dairy Fly Management Integrated Pest Management (IPM) teleconference is now scheduled for Thursday, May 3, 2007. This northeast SARE sponsored program will provide extension personnel, producers, veterinarians and other agriculture professionals with an overview on what one needs to know about managing house and stable fly populations in confined dairy facilities. The workshop will present IPM principles and practices to help producers avoid, minimize, or manage dairy house fly and stable fly populations. Topics will include pest identification and biology, assessment techniques, management including discussions on cultural control, biological control using natural enemies, trapping, insecticides including insecticide resistance and suggestions for additional resources.

A portion of the program will be devoted to a "questions from the audience" session. Participants would be expected, to the extent appropriate to their position responsibilities, to help share this IPM information with their colleagues and clientele.

Again, this workshop will be held mid day (specific time TBA) on Thursday, May 3, 2007.

We tentatively plan to offer this workshop using both live video conferencing and as a web streamed broadcast. To help us in our planning we ask those interested in participating contact Keith Waldron (jkw5@cornell.edu, 315-787-2432, c/o NYS IPM Program, NYSAES, 630 W. North St., Geneva, NY 14456-0462). Please provide your facilities technical contact person for video conferencing, the IP address that you would be viewing from for live video or the email address you would use if participating by "webstreaming".

Keith Waldron

NYS Livestock and Field Crop IPM Coordinator

Cornell University

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