On Target  IPM News

December 2007

 

 

The OnTarget web page is updated frequently: http://northeastipm.org/news_ontarget.cfm

 

Email archives: http://northeastipm.org/news_ontargetarchiveindex.cfm

 

Links to items posted since the last email edition (except calendar items which have expired):

 

Northeastern News

 

* Next round of vegetable/strawberry IPM Educator Exchange grants available

 

* Growing and Marketing Greener for Greenhouses and Garden Retailers - Dec 14  

 

* Brown root rot -- a potentially serious forage crop disease -- is found throughout the Northeast (Cornell Chronicle 11/9/07)

 

* New Guide to High Tunnel Berry Production

 

Massachusetts

 

* 2008 Green Directory Available from University of Massachusetts Extension 

 

* U Mass Amherst Agriculture & Landscape Program Events Calendar

 

New York

 

* James Tette, New York's "Father of IPM," Receives IPM Award  

 

* $1.4 Million Earmarked to Battle Milfoil, Phragmites and Other Aquatic Invasive Species  

 

* What's New in Organic Dairy and Field Crop Research - December 13

 

* Workshops Held on Resolving Canada Geese Conflicts in the Hudson Valley  

 

* New York Farm Viability Institute Press Room  

 

Pennsylvania

 

* PASA 17th Annual Farming for the Future Conference, Feb 7-9, 2008

 

* Christmas Tree Pests Target of New Project

 

West Virginia

 

* Look What's Out There in IPM - Nov 2007  

 

 

For news from other regions, see the OnTarget web page: http://northeastipm.org/news_ontarget.cfm

 

 

National News

 

* Sustainable Sites Initiative - Preliminary Report on the Standards and Guidelines and opportunity for public comment  

 

* 2008 National No-Tillage Conference, Jan. 9-12, 2008  

 

* National Invasive Weed Awareness Week, Washington D.C. Feb 24-29

 

American Farmland Trust

 

* U.S. Farm Policy Update

 

* Recent Press Releases

 

APHIS

 

* Secretary of Agriculture seeks nominations for advisory committee on foreign animal and poultry diseases  

 

* USDA concludes genetically engineered creeping bentgrass investigation  

 

* USDA seeks comment on pest risk analysis for the importation of dropwort leaves with stems from South Korea  

 

* Quarantine of Entire State of New Jersey for Pine Shoot Beetle  

 

* New detections of Sirex noctilio Fabricius in Pennsylvania and New York, and biocontrol efforts

 

* New Research on Cold Tolerance of Ralstonia solanacearum Strains

 

* News from APHIS - Archives

 

ARS - Agricultural Research Service

 

* ARS News Archive  

 

Beyond Pesticides

 

* Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog

 

CSREES

 

* USDA Grants Help to Quantify Conservation Benefits of Watersheds

 

* CSREES Administrator's Report to the Partnership, Nov. 2007

 

* CSREES Update - November 28, 2007  

 

* CSREES Update - November 14, 2007  

 

* CSREES Update - Archives

 

EPA

 

* Baltimore City Schools Receive EPA Funds to Improve Indoor Air Pollution  

 

* Comment Period Extended for Draft List of First Pesticides To Undergo Endocrine Disruptor Screening

 

* FIFRA Panel to Review Preliminary Interpretation of a Three-Year Atrazine Monitoring Program  

 

* FY 2007 Performance and Accountability Report  

 

* EPA Seeks Nominations to New Agricultural Advisory Committee  

 

* EPA Develops Web Site for Registration Service Fees

 

* EPA Publishes Final Rules to Update and Clarify Data Requirements for Pesticides

 

* Methyl Parathion Cancelations and Amendments to Usage

 

* Pesticide Inert Ingredients - Information on Certain Revoked Exemptions

 

* Prometon Risk Assessments; Notice of Availability, and Risk Reduction Options

 

* Schedule for Next Four Years of Registration Review Available

 

* Latest News from the EPA Ag Center

 

* Proposed Rules, Policies, and Guidance (items for public comment)

 

* EPA Pesticide Program Highlights

 

* EPA Pesticide News Stories Archive  

 

* EPA Pesticide Meetings Calendar Page

 

* Federal Register - Pesticides - Archive

 

IPM Institute

 

* National Conference Call on Residential Pest Management's Impact on Environment - Dec 19  

 

* IPM Institute news page

 

* IPM Institute Event Calendar

 

IPMnet NEWS

 

* IPMnet NEWS - December 2007  

 

Legislative News

 

* Farm Bill Reformers' Fair Weather Friend

 

* House Agriculture Committee News Room

 

National Agricultural Library

 

* National Invasive Species Information Center - Calendar of Events  

 

National Research Council

 

* Committee on Twenty-First Century Systems Agriculture  

 

Pest Control Technology

 

* Case Study: Controlling Bed Bugs in Apartments  

 

Plant Management Network

 

* PMN Update #70 - Nov 20, 2007  

 

SARE

 

* New Voices Contest Seeks Innovative Vision for Sustainable Agriculture  

 

* SARE Calendar of Sustainable Agriculture Events

 

 

International

 

* Weeds Across Borders conference, May 27-30, Alberta  

 

* Proposed Ban on Genetically Modified Corn in Europe (NY Times 11/23/07)  

 

 

Funding Opportunities

 

Northeastern

 

* Friends of Long Island Horticulture

 

National

* American Honda Foundation

 

* EPA - Environmental Education Grants

 

* EPA - 5th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet

 

* USDA - CSREES- Risk Management Education

 

* USDA - CSREES - Integrated Organic Program

 

* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Plant Genome

 

* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems

 

* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (A): Organismal and Population Biology

 

* USDA - CSREES - NRI -- Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management (D): Protection of Managed Bees Coordinated Agricultural Project (CAP)

 

 

Job Opportunities

 

* Extension Support Specialist, IPM in Public Housing - Northeastern IPM Center, position based at Cornell

 

* Program Assistant - Northeastern IPM Center, position based at Cornell

 

* Field Research Director - IR-4 - Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center

 

* Pome Fruit Breeder/Geneticist - Washington State University

 

* Sr. Research Associate & Project Coordinator, Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat - Cornell University

 

* Postdoctoral Associate, Arabidopsis-aphid interactions - Boyce Thompson Institute

 

* Biological Science Technician - USDA ARS - Grape Genetics Research Unit (Geneva, NY)

 

* Asst. Cooperative Extension Specialist and Asst. Entomologist - University of California Riverside

 

* Asst. Professor, Agroecology of Speciality Crops - University of Vermont, Dept. of Plant and Soil Science

 

* Assistant Professor of Landscape Management and Nursery Production - Cornell University - Dept. of Horticulture

 

* Entomologist - State of Iowa

 

* Entomologist - International Rice Research Institute

 

* Wildlife Biologist (damage control) - USDA - APHIS - West Virginia

 

* Extension Associate, Wildlife Damage - Cornell Cooperative Extension - Suffolk Co.

 

* Organic Farm Coordinator - Cornell University

 

* Non-native Invasive Species Coordinator - Nature Conservancy - Florida

 

* Crop Consultant - Glades Crop Care, Inc.

 

* Agronomist / Principal Investigator  - Glades Crop Care, Inc.

 

 

To submit items for On Target, or to start or stop receiving this email newsletter, please contact Liz Thomas at egt3@cornell.edu or Amy Galford at aeg1@cornell.edu