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One-Stop Shopping for IPM Information
The Northeastern IPM Center’s website is a valuable portal to other IPM information sources. In this article, we’re focusing on the site’s Data Sources page, which offers links to an abundance of IPM information. IPM Expertise Links under this heading on the site connect visitors to Cooperative Extension offices nationwide, with contacts to agriculture and community IPM experts. The Pest Management Expertise Database, from North Carolina’s Center for IPM, allows users to search for experts by name, area of expertise, location, commodity, or key word. Experts can easily add and edit their own listings. |
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Pesticide Use Data
Visitors can link to the impressive work of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), which includes statistics on pesticide usage for all crops in all states from 1990 to the present. The flexibility of the search function and the use of maps and graphs make this resource all the more valuable to users. Another link takes users to the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP), which focuses on pesticide use in the Northeast (derived from 1992 and 1997 agricultural survey data) and presents a searchable library of pesticide use surveys and reports.
Pesticide Regulations and Safety
Links under this heading take users to the EPA’s Pesticide Product Information and Label Systems, and to IR-4’s Minor Crops Program, which pertains to most crops grown in the Northeast. Other pesticide safety links include a collection of New Pest Management Technologies databases from the USDA and EPA; Pesticide Active Ingredient Information from the Pesticide Management Education Program (PMEP); a Pesticide Residue Database managed by the Pesticide Data Program; and a link to Worker Protection Standards for Agricultural Pesticides.
Pest Data
Visitors to Michigan University’s Database of Arthropods Resistant to Pesticides will find information that is both practical and important for regulatory decisions. A link to the Bayer Codes web page allows users to translate between the common and scientific names of pests. Links to USDA Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans are also posted here under the Pest Data heading.
Crops/Commodities
Crop acreage information is available from Perdue University’s Crop Map, where users can select a state and find statistics for any county based on the 1997 census of agriculture, including crops grown, number of farms, acres, and yields. In addition, the Crop Map also offers statewide statistics such as crop hardiness zones and ecoregions.
If you have suggestions for additional data that should be included on the Data Sources page, please contact us!
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For more information on IPM in the Northeast or for printed copies of this newsletter, contact Jim VanKirk (315.787.2378; jrv1@cornell.edu) or information specialist Liz Thomas (315.787.2626; egt3@cornell.edu), NYS IPM Program Office, NYSAES, 630 W. North Street, Geneva, NY 14456. Writing and design by Elizabeth Myers (315-251-0713; ebm24@cornell.edu).
