Main Areas Where IPM Efforts are
Needed
The following list is ranked with the highest priority at the top:
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Community IPM |
Examples
- Coordinated public awareness program to promote IPM to consumers.
- Help homeowners understand the concepts and correct practices of
IPM (fact sheets, educational outreach, tools that help increase knowledge
and awareness of the practices that they can put into place)
- Tick management for communities and residences
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| Invasive species |
- Coordinate a public awareness program regarding the threat and
detection of exotic invasive pests and associated IPM strategies
- Develop educational materials for invasive plant identification and
control measures
- Find biological controls of noxious agricultural and forestry weeds
(especially mile-a-minute, giant hogweed, and Canada thistle.)
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| Bio control |
- Research on biological control of diseases, arthropods, and weeds;
extension of this research into production systems of horticultural
crops
- Research/extension demonstrations of biocontrol methods for growers
and private pest control operators
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| Weed IPM |
- Research/extension demonstrations of weed management in sustainable/organic
crop systems.
- Weed identification.
- Managing herbicide resistant weeds.
|
| Organic |
- Test the efficacy of pest management materials allowable in organic
production systems
- Develop organic IPM packages for various crops and other sites
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| Sampling techniques and thresholds |
- Develop sampling protocols for key insect and mite pests of nursery
and landscape plants
- Update/verify economic thresholds as yield potential and crop and
input prices change
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| IPM guidelines, labeling, and certification programs (in this case the
word "guideline" refers to a document that can be used to distinguish
those who are using IPM techniques.) |
- Develop a region-wide IPM labeling/identification program for both
agricultural crops and community IPM settings.
- Develop individual IPM guidelines and certification programs
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| Water quality issues |
- IPM Research and extension for residential settings to reduce impacts
on water quality
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| Greenhouse crops |
- Greenhouse IPM research and extension, including developing a greenhouse
scouting/crop advising program (commercial scouting is unavailable in
many areas of the Northeast)
- Integration of biological controls into greenhouse ornamental pest
management.
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| Communications and training for IPM users |
- Assess the effectiveness of electronic-based communications to IPM
users (growers, practitioners)
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| Evaluation and assessment of IPM tactics |
- Assess the impact of reduced-risk pesticides on the ecology of agroecosystems
in order to document the benefits of IPM on the environment (IPM roadmap
goal)
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