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IPM Priorities for Vegetables in the Northeast
On November 10th
and 11th, 2003 the Vegetable IPM Working Group of the Northeastern IPM
Center met in Albany, New York to create a list of prioritized IPM needs
for vegetable commodities of the Northeast in the categories of research
and extension, potential invasive species, anticipated resistance problems,
and general recommendations. Members of this group represent nine northeastern
states and are listed with their affiliations at the working group web
site. Stakeholders represented by this group include growers, crop
consultants, processors, departments of agriculture, university researchers
and extension specialists, and environmentalists |
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Influence
on Pesticide |
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| Regionality |
Crops
Affected |
Influence
on Yield/Quality |
Availability
of Controls |
Pesticide
Use Patterns |
Concern |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Tarnished plant bug in
beans, tomatoes, eggplant, pepper and strawberry |
2 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
Stink bug on tomato, pepper,
and bean |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Striped cucumber beetle/bacterial
wilt |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Squash bug |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
Corn worm complex (corn
earworm, fall armyworm, european corn borer) in sweet corn, potato,
beans, leafy greens, and peppers. |
3 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
Fungal pathogens on solanaceous
crops. |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Bacterial pathogens on
tomatoes and peppers. |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Wire worm on potatoes |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
Aphid control on leafy
vegetables |
3 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
Phytophthora of all the
cucurbits, beans, and solanaceous crops. |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
Deer |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
Flea beetle in brassicas |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Plectosporium (or microsporidium)
in pumpkin and summer squash |
3 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
Potato leafhopper in beans
and potatoes especially in organic systems |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
Sap beetle on corn |
3 |
1 |
na |
na |
3 |
Integration of worm pest
management in transgenic sweet corn with public policy. |
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Difficulty of using no-till
systems due to weed control problems |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Galinsoga |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Solanaceous weeds in solanaceous
crops |
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Canadian thistle and other
perennial weeds |
3 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Increase post-emergence
weed control options, both chemical and cultural |
3 |
3 |
2 |
na |
3 |
Better understanding and
use of crop rotations |
1 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
Mushroom pests - see specifics
in the pest management strategic plan |
2 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Leaf diseases in sweet
corn |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
Powdery mildew and other
disease management for cucurbits |
| Regionality |
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Crops
affected |
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Influence
on Crop Yield/Quality |
3= |
across
entire region |
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3= |
most |
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3= |
historically
devastating crop loss in one or more crop |
2= |
parts of the
region |
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2= |
many |
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2= |
significant
reduction in quality or yield for part of the season |
1= |
only a limited
region |
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1= |
few |
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1= |
some
loss in yield and quality |
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| Availability
of Controls (both chemical and non-chemical) |
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Pesticide
use patterns |
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3= |
few, none, or
cost prohibitive |
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3= |
high |
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2= |
some |
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2= |
medium |
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1= |
adequate |
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1= |
low |
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Potential Invasive
Pest Species:
- Brown marmorated stink bug
- Swede midge
- Soybean aphid
- Tuber flea beetle on potato
- Leek moth
- Sweet corn rust
Current and potential
resistance problems:
- Colorado potato beetle and
neonicotinoids
- Pyrethroids and corn earworm
in the south
- Late blight
- Powdery mildew
General Regional
Recommendatons:
- Expand web sites, especially
those providing pest identification and pest control information. Link
this to commercial production guides. Over time, make this relevant
to the entire Northeast region, using models such as the Mid-Atlantic
Fruit Production Guide.
- Improve and enhance existing
monitoring and modeling infrastructure for determining insect, disease,
weed, and other pest conditions and forecasts. Include geospatial tools
that result in real time regional maps of pest pressure and phenology
made publicly available through the Internet and other media.
- Centralize vegetable IPM
information through the Northeastern IPM Center database.
- Expand adoption of IPM through:
- Promoting cooperatives
or other organizational structures to make it economically feasible
for farmers to hire or create IPM services. We envision cooperative
extension or other IPM professionals to be part of the board of
these cooperatives and provide training and support.
- Encouraging farmer to
farmer educational exchanges about IPM practices
- Serving needs of small
or isolated operations and highly diversified farms with the goal
of growers being able to accomplish IPM. We are looking for creative
ways to accomplish this. One possible way is through development
of a whole-farm model IPM system that can use record-keeping, scouting,
and trapping techniques to gather field-based information and apply
that to decision-making on a highly diversified vegetable farm.
- Encourage application
of IPM methods to enhance the success of organic farming systems.
- Educate consumers and the
public about the value and meaning of IPM
- Include consumer information
on the Vegetable Working Group website.
- Other methods for accomplishing
this goal are to be developed and may include press outreach as
a strategy for reaching the public more effectively.
- K-12 education programs
on IPM are an effective way to have a long term impact on the public
- IPM marketing materials
and issues should be explored for the Northeast region as a whole.
- Identify and prioritize
pest problems on a regional basis to enhance communication between states.
- Support professional training
and communication across the region for Extension and crop consultants
in vegetable IPM. Using existing meetings as models, develop region-wide
training programs (e.g. crop school for certified crop consultants (mid-Atlantic),
mid-Atlantic vegetable extension workers meeting, NY or New England
in-service trainings) .
- Prioritize crop profiles
and pest management strategic plans and encourage the completion of
priority PMSP’s.
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