IPM Working Groups
IPM Working Groups bring together regional stakeholders around vital issues in the Northeast. These ad hoc committees work on topics specific to an IPM setting or crop—they develop or update priority lists, plan multistate projects, and conduct outreach campaigns across the region. Working group members include researchers, educators, IPM practitioners, agricultural producers and consultants, government personnel, and representatives environmental groups or other nonprofits. Funded through the Center's IPM Partnership Grants Program, these groups represent the views of stakeholders while passing information from the Center to their own organizations and peers.
Current IPM Working Groups in the Northeast
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- New England Small Ruminant
- Schools
- Small Fruit
- Spotted Wing Drosophila
- Tree Fruit
Past IPM Working Groups in the Northeast
- Collaborative to Promote IPM in Child Care Facilities (ended in 2012)
- Community (funded in 2011 as the Sustainable Landscapes IPM Working Group)
- Evaluation (ended in 2010)
- Fruit (ended in 2004)
- Greenhouse and Ornamentals (ended in 2004)
- Hops (ended in 2012)
- Invasive Species (ended in 2012)
- Livestock and Field Crops (ended in 2005)
- New England IPM Collaboration
- Pollinators (ended in 2012)
- Public Health (merged with the Community IPM Working Group)
- Red Tomato—Eco Apple (ended in 2012)
- Slug Management (Mid-Atlantic High Residue Cropping Systems) (ended in 2012)
- Small Farms (ended in 2012)
- Sustainable Landscapes (ended in 2012)
- Tree Fruit Sooty Blotch/Fly Speck (funded in 2009 by the USDA — Read more about their work)
- Vegetables (ended in 2012)
