A PEST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLAN DATABASE: COMPLETION, ANALYSES AND PUBLICATION

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: OTHER GRANTS
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0215957
• Grant No.: 2008-41530-04860
• Proposal No.: 2008-03405
• Project Start Date: Sep 1, 2008
• Project End Date: Feb 28, 2011
• Grant Year: 2008
• Program Code: [QQ.E]- Extension Integrated Pest Management - Support

Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
G022 MCCARTY HALL
GAINESVILLE,FL 32611

Performing Department
NORTH FLA RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER, QUINCY

Non Technical Summary
Pest management strategic plans (PMSP) are one of the primary products from the regional IPM centers. These unique documents are developed for a specific commodity or group of commodities following defined guidelines and represent a cooperative effort of all stakeholders including producers. They contain a snapshot in time of the current state of IPM for the target commodities. Each document provides a detailed description of the cultural and management practices including IPM for the commodity. Each document also includes a prioritized list of IPM-related needs in the areas of regulatory, extension and research. In aggregate, the over 100 PMSP currently completed represent a large monetary investment and likely contain a wealth of information about IPM in each region and nationally that could be used for planning, measurement and other purposes. To date, such an analysis has not been completed; however, preliminary investigations of a subset of the PMSP in the southern region support these contentions. This proposal requests funds to complete data entry, mine the completed PMSP database, analyze and interpret the information, provide a synthesis of the contents as they relate to IPM issues in a published journal article(s) and make the database electronically available to the public.

Animal Health Component

100%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

(N/A)

Applied

100%

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
216	2410	1060	100%

Knowledge Area
216 - Integrated Pest Management Systems;

Subject Of Investigation
2410 - Cross-commodity research--multiple crops;

Field Of Science
1060 - Biology (whole systems);

Keywords

pest management strategic plan

ipm

ipm implementation

extension needs

research needs

regualtory needs

regional ipm

commodities

Goals / Objectives
The aggregate IPM data in the currently-available Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSP) will be analyzed and synthesized to determine the current state of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in the U.S. The information will be developed into a database that will be placed on the web for public use when the project is finished. The results will be published for use by IPM stakeholders and should serve as a benchmark for measurement of IPM progress in the future.

Project Methods
The PMSPs contain priorites by commodity from stakeholders in research, extension and regulatory along with a large amount of detailed information on the culture and management of each commodity and its pests. The IPM data in the PMSPs will be analyzed in aggregate from a number of perspectives to develop quantative and qualitative summaries, statistics and indexes of comparison by region, commodity group and other pertinent independent variables. The data will be used to analyze the current state of IPM and to determine the important problems and needs that must be addressed to improve the implementation of IPM across all commodities.

Progress 09/01/08 to 02/28/11

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The USDA Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP) has been facilitating the production of Pest Management Strategic Plans which are developed by growers, commodity associations, land-grant specialists, food processors, crop consultants, and EPA. These plans address pest management needs and priorities for individual commodities. They provide a major source for justification of needs-based research at Land-Grant Universities. This project developed a web based search tool for all pest management strategic plans available through the IPM Centers website. The tool enables the user to quickly find and aggregate the major priorities in research, extension and regulation by commodity and other variables buried within these multipage documents. There are currently over 140 PMSPs and 3,134 Summary Priorities, plus 6982 pest-specific priorities currently abstracted. The dissemination of the results of this project is via a website that may be found with the IPM Centers web sites. A journal publication explaining the value, use and outcomes from the project will be forthcoming. PARTICIPANTS: Ron Stinner, Margaret Rotstein, Russ Mizell TARGET AUDIENCES: The target audience is anyone interested in the production practices including pest management of most of the agricultural commodities grown in the United States. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
There are currently over 140 pest management strategic plans and 3,134 summary priorities, plus 6982 pest-specific priorities currently abstracted. These priorities are separated into research, education and regulatory foci. However, until now there has been no overall assessment of these priorities. Because there were far too many specific priorities, we needed to create priority categories to look at trends, major areas of concern, and differences among regions, crop groups, and types of pests. General results include Importance of workshops/training, Importance of up-to-date online and printed materials, Pesticide Related, Importance of IR-4, Lack of alternative chemistries, Desire for new communications about online social networking, Pre-harvest Interval (PHI) and reentry time issues for pesticides, especially on fruits and vegetables, New chemistries needed, especially for resistance management, and Decrease time for registration of pesticides.

Publications

• Stinner, R., M. Rotstein and R. F. Mizell. 2011. A website in conjunction with the web site for the regional IPM Centers.

Progress 09/01/09 to 08/31/10

Outputs
OUTPUTS: We are in the data collecting and analyzing phase and as yet do not have any outputs appropriate for external use. PARTICIPANTS: Ms. Margaret Rotstein, Ron Stinner and Russ Mizell are working on the project. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
We are in the data collecting and analyzing phase and as yet do not have any outputs appropriate for external use.

Publications

• No publications reported this period

Progress 09/01/08 to 08/31/09

Outputs
OUTPUTS: The objective of this project is to synthesize and analyze the IPM data found in the pest management strategic plans prepared through the pest managament centers. We have presented one talk on our preliminary findings at the national IPM workshop in 2009. PARTICIPANTS: Not relevant to this project. TARGET AUDIENCES: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.

Impacts
The major outcomes will result from the complete analyses of the data sets. We are currently working on that part of the project.

Publications

• No publications reported this period