In the States
Maryland
Annual Advanced Landscape Plant IPM PHC Short Course will be held January 6–10,
2003, at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The 25th Annual Interstate Pest Management Conference will be held January 29–30, 2003, at the Maritime Institute of Technology in Linthicum, MD. The conference specializes in structural IPM outreach to industry, academia, and government. Presentations will cover insect, rodent, and bird pest management, and treatment of sensitive facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and restaurants.
Information about both events is available on the MD IPM website: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/nrsl/entm/
New Jersey
The New Jersey Information Network for Pesticides and Alternative Strategies
(NJinPAS) has developed nine listserves that deliver pesticide-related information
to New Jersey growers, crop consultants, pesticide users, public interest groups,
environmental groups, and Extension faculty and staff. Listserve categories
include the network; institutions and interiors; mosquito; fruit; turf, ornamentals,
greenhouse, and nursery; field and forage crops; vegetables; school IPM; and
forests and Christmas trees. All postings are archived and may be viewed by
date, listserve, or topic. For information and enrollment, go to www.pestmanagement.rutgers.edu/NJinPAS/listservs.htm.
New York
The New York Vegetable Conference is scheduled for February 10–13, 2003,
at the Holiday Inn Syracuse and Convention Center in Liverpool, NY. Sessions
will include a kickoff presentation on managing risk, as well as sessions on
sweet corn, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, squash, melons, beans
and peas, transitioning to organic, and adding cut flowers to vegetable operations.
For more information, please contact Jeff and Lindy Kubecka at 315-687-5734
or nysvga@twcny.rr.com.
Pennsylvania
Jim Steinhauer, chief apiary inspector for the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
(PDA), was recently named as the PDA’s IPM Coordinator for the statewide
program. Steinhauer was a bee inspector for the PDA for almost 30 years. He
established the state’s Beekeeping Advisory Committee, worked to establish
quarantine regulations for tracheal mites, Varroa mites, and small hive beetles,
and helped develop a new bee law that requires apiaries to implement and maintain
the apiary registration program. Steinhauer replaces retired IPM Coordinator
Lee Bentz. The PA IPM program is a collaboration between Penn State and the
PDA, with Ed Rajotte filling the role of Penn State’s IPM Coordinator.
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