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.

Currently Funded IPM Working Groups in the Northeast

• Municipal Rodents
• Tarping and Soil Solarization
• Tree Fruit (funded 2010–2013 and 2021)

Active IPM Working Groups

Working groups that have received funding from the Northeastern IPM Center’s Partnership Grants program in the past and continue to remain active.

• Schools (funded through 2013)
• The Scientific Coalition of Pest Exclusion (SCOPE 2020) (funded 2015–2017)
• Spotted Lanternfly (funded 2018–2019)
• Spotted Wing Drosophila
• Vegetable and Small Fruit (funded through 2012)

Past IPM Working Groups

• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (funded 2015–2018)
• Collaborative to Promote IPM in Child Care Facilities (funded 2011–2012)
• Community (funded in 2011 as the Sustainable Landscapes IPM Working Group)
• Cranberry Fruit Rot
• Evaluation (funded 2009–2010)
• Fruit (funded through 2004)
• Greenhouse and Ornamentals (funded through 2004)
• Hops (funded 2011–2012)
• Invasive Hardy Kiwi (Actinidia arguta) (funded 2017–2019)
• Invasive Species (funded through 2012)
• Livestock and Field Crops (funded through 2005)
• New England IPM Collaboration
• New England Small Ruminant (funded 2015–2016)
• Northeastern Weeds (funded 2017–2019)
• Northern New England Pollinator Habitat (funded 2015–2017)
• Public Health (merged with the Community IPM Working Group)
• Red Tomato—Eco Apple (funded 2006–2012)
• Region-Wide Pollinator (funded 2011–2012; a new Pollinator Working Group formed in 2014)
• Slug Management (Mid-Atlantic High Residue Cropping Systems) (funded 2011–2012)
• Small Farms (funded through 2012)
• Small Fruit (funded 2009–2013)
• Sustainable Landscapes (funded through 2012)
• Tree Fruit Sooty Blotch/Fly Speck (funded in 2009 by the USDA — Read more about their work)