MISSOURI IPM PROGRAM

• Sponsoring Institution: National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: 3D GRANT
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 1002721
• Grant No.: 2013-41534-21513
• Cumulative Award Amt.: $184,400.00
• Proposal No.: 2013-04104
• Project Start Date: Sep 1, 2013
• Project End Date: Aug 31, 2015
• Grant Year: 2013
• Program Code: [QQIPM]- Extension Integrated Pest Management - Coordination

Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION
(N/A)
COLUMBIA,MO 65211

Performing Department
Office of Sponsored Programs

Non Technical Summary
The Missouri IPM Program proposal is an EIPM-CS Coordination project and a joint submission by Lincoln University and University of Missouri. William Wiebold and Jaime Piñero will serve as co-directors. David E. Baker, MU Program Director for Agriculture and Natural Resources, will have administrative responsibilities. Primary emphasis areas are: IPM Implementation for Agronomic Crops, IPM Implementation for Consumer/Urban Environments, and IPM Implementation for Specialty Crops. Secondary emphasis area is IPM support for Pest Diagnostics Facilities. Objectives, developed with stakeholder input, are: 1) educate farmers, homeowners and their advisors about IPM so that they can implement IPM plans; 2) increase awareness and adoption of IPM by vegetable and small fruit farmers, with emphasis on minority and under-represented farmers; 3) develop and deliver information about effective and environmentally sound pest management to farmers, homeowners and their advisors; 4) develop and enhance a monitoring system for existing and potential plant pests; 5) demonstrate IPM principles in the local community; 6) support training for a new generation of IPM professionals The proposed approach includes print and electronic publications, demonstration projects, and face to face meetings. Content for activities will come from numerous contributors representing multiple disciplines. Expected knowledge and behavior outcomes are clearly aligned with the IPM Roadmap and IPM education principles. The two universities have the capacity to deliver these programs at all levels. Fulfilling project objectives will lead to a vibrant IPM program that will improve profitability while reducing the impacts of pest management on the environments and humans.

Animal Health Component

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Research Effort Categories

Basic

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Applied

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Developmental

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Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
216	7410	1101	10%
216	7410	1102	20%
216	7410	1120	10%
216	7410	1130	20%
216	7410	1140	20%
216	7410	1070	20%

Knowledge Area
216 - Integrated Pest Management Systems;

Subject Of Investigation
7410 - General technology;

Field Of Science
1101 - Virology; 1120 - Nematology; 1130 - Entomology and acarology; 1070 - Ecology; 1102 - Mycology; 1140 - Weed science;

Keywords

integrated

pest

management

Goals / Objectives
Missouri'sgeographical and sociological characteristics demand an IPM program that is comprehensive and multidisciplinary, including disciplines other than those thought to be traditional pest management. Our specific goal is to decrease the impact of pest management on the environment, including humans, while ensuring cost effective strategies are widely adopted.OurIPM objectives:1. Educate farmers, homeowners and their advisors about Integrated Pest Management so that they can develop and implement IPM plans.2. Increase level of awareness and adoption of IPM components by vegetable and small fruit farmers, with emphasis on minority and under-represented farmers, leading to increased profits and environmental benefits, while decreasing pesticide use.3. Develop and deliver information about effective and environmentally sound plant pest management practices to farmers, homeowners and their advisors.4. Develop and enhance a monitoring and warning system for existing and potential plant pests.5. Demonstrate IPM principles in the local community.6. Support the formation of the new generation of IPM professionals.

Project Methods
Maintain and enhance IPM webs: Functional and easily navigated web sites are essential for delivering pest management information to end-users and their advisers. Both universities have established IPM web sites and these will continue to operate. However, substantial cross links will be established. A single multimedia specialist will be responsible for web design of both sites, which will enhance linkages. Our goal is to continue to improve navigation ease and ensure that visitors can find IPM-related information quickly in a form that is easily understood. Viewer comments and evaluations will be actively sought. Pest management faculty members conduct pertinent research and develop pest management strategies and other extension programs. Some of this content is located on faculty specific web sites, but too often the information has not been summarized and made available to end-users. We propose an electronic publication series called "Pest and Plant Perspectives". In our role as content facilitators, we will work with pest management faculty members to provide research results, pest management recommendations, and similar information in a format that is consistent across the series.Maintain and enhance newsletters: The University of Missouri (MU) produces two newsletters; Integrated Pest and Crop Management (IPCM) and Missouri Environment and Garden (MEG). These provide essential platforms for pest and plant management specialists to disseminate information to diverse audiences. We propose to broaden the author list from just MU faculty members to include Lincoln University faculty. IPCM targets persons interested in agronomic crops; whereas, MEG targets persons interested in horticultural crops. Both newsletters are available in electronic formats.Social media: Communicating through social media has become commonplace and has a role in IPM extension. We have Twitter and Facebook accounts dedicated to IPM. The primary use of these social media is to alert persons of timely issues related to pest monitoring and newsletter article availability. We also use it to drive traffic to our web sites.Coordinate publication of guides and manuals in the IPM series: The IPM series of publications currently has a portfolio of 12 agricultural guides (4 pages or less) and 17 full color manuals.Coordinate the Pest Monitoring Network (PMN): Monitoring occurrences of known and potential pests and alerting farmers, homeowners, and their advisers is essential to the deployment of IPM.Coordinate weekly in-season teleconferences: During the growing season (mid-April through August) we hold two weekly teleconferences among state and regional (county-based) specialists. One teleconference involves specialists working with agronomic crops and the other involves specialist working with horticultural crops. These teleconferences have proved to be highly successful means of disseminating pest management information, especially for challenges that are unpredictable in timing.Coordinate county-based extension specialist training: It is important that University of Missouri county-based extension specialists continue professional development related to IPM principles and methods. IPM funds will be available to cover registration fees for these specialists to attend major ongoing conferences and short courses. Examples include: Crop Injury and Diagnostic Clinic, Missouri Valley Turf and Ornamental Field Day, Crop Management Conference, and the State Master Gardeners annual conference In addition the Missouri IPM Program will facilitate at least one in-service education (ISE) opportunity each year.Comprehensive IPM workshops targeting farmers per year. These workshops will target under-represented, limited-resource and minority audiences and will use multiple culturally-sensitive approaches to delivery of comprehensive IPM-related information. Each workshop will include several classroom sessions as well as a visit to a local farm. Hands-on activities will include demonstrations of pest problems in the field and a display of live beneficial and pest insects. Flash drives with comprehensive educational resources will be provided to each workshop participant. All aspects of IPM were covered from growing healthy transplants to post harvest sanitation and cover cropping.We propose to hold three workshops each year to be conducted in NW, Central, and SW Missouri. Workshops will include bilingual technical curriculum (for Hmong farmers) alongside a capstone cultural framework program that will include cross-cultural education and training. Workshop participants will learn the fundamental multi-disciplinary IPM knowledge and skills in order to put those into practice.Field Days: IPM concepts (e.g., economic thresholds), products (e.g., monitoring tools) and techniques (e.g., trap cropping, cover cropping) will be demonstrated and shown in permanent IPM field days that will be implemented at each of the two LU farms for organic (Busby farm) and mostly conventional (Carver Farm) producers. Farm walks will also be made available to demonstrate IPM principles throughout the growing season, not just on the specific field day tour. Field days will be used as provide education and formal/informal training to clientele including: commercial mid- and small-scale farmers, backyard producers, Extension educators, master gardeners, students, teachers, and the general public. We propose to hold two field days each year.On-farm demonstrations: Demonstrations will be held on farmer's land to validate findings of our own IPM research. Selected insect ID and monitoring tools will also be demonstrated. Two farms (Mr. Jose Fonseca, Hispanic vegetable farmer - conventional, and Mr. Curtis Millsap, Caucasian vegetable farmer - organic) will be used for demonstrations in 2013. We expect the same farms to continue with further demonstrations considering the likelihood that a broad representation of farmers, including Caucasian, minority, and under-represented farmers would attend.Training extension educators: Workshops will provide training to agricultural professionals and educators in the Missouri's Cooperative Extension Service on sustainable IPM so that they could help farmers more effectively. Examples of past successful workshops include Vegetables in 2011 and Small Fruits in 2012. We propose two 2-day workshops each year provided through LU and MU in-service-education program. Experts in various IPM-related areas including MU and LU faculty members will be invited to present. Topics will vary from year to year. ISE participants will be provided with educational materials and supplies to promote IPM techniques introduced during the training as well as some basic supplies to support their future training demonstrations. About 40 people are expected to attend every year. This IPM workshop will be announced outside Missouri so that a maximum of 10 educators from the NC region can attend, making this a regional training event.Print and electronic publications: Fact sheets, YouTube videos, and webinars on brown marmorated stinkbug and spotted wing drosophila are proposed.Pest Monitoring Network: Although the target pests of the Pest Monitoring Network are considered farm pests, some insects also damage specialist crops. An effort to advertise the list serve to specialty crop clientele will be made (see section III.A.1.). Lincoln University will administer a monitoring system for two specific invasive insects (brown marmorated stinkbug and spotted wing drosophila). Funds provided by the Missouri Department of Agriculture Specialty Crops Block grant program will be used in year 1. Funds are requested in this proposal to continue with this monitoring system for two additional years. Extension educators and farmers will receive training so that monitoring costs are reduced by year 3, when farmers are expected to do their own monitoring.

Progress 09/01/13 to 08/31/15

Outputs
Target Audience:The University of Missouri (MU) Plant Science extension service is dedicated to improving the well-being of Missouri's citizens. The MU IPM program is a multidisciplinary team of scientists and extension specialists that collaborate to educate Missouri's farmers, gardeners, homeowners, landscape and nursery operations, wine growers, and foresters on the implementation of sustainable IPM practices. We work in large agricultural operations and at the local community level to progress environmental stewardship through research and information-based principles. Lincoln University (LU) has served the needs of underserved Missourians since 1866. Missouri farmers growing specialty crops are the primary audience of the LU IPM program. The LU IPM program works with all Missouri's residents. However, because we put special attention to under-represented, limited-resource and minority producers, then our delivery methods are varied, and reflect the varying needs of our clientele. This project has disseminated relevant research-based information that will help mid- and small-scale commercial producers to improve their farming operations. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?For all program priorities, our weekly IPM teleconference series in both agronomy and horticulture facilities the training of regional specialists with campus faculty expertise, and allows for greater coordination of IPM activities between LU and MU. Sixty-five teleconferences (29 field crop and 36 horticulture) were held between September 2013 and August 2015. Since we have reopened our MU Plant Diagnostic Clinic, the Clinic Director has been an invaluable addition to these teleconferences to both answer questions and deliver a weekly summary of sample submissions and problems throughout the region. In addition, we also have our state climatologist participate to detail conditions throughout the state and give a glimpse at the forecast to plan for future pest issues. The lawn care workshops, Pesticide Applicator Training, and Master Gardener workshops have provided training on IPM principles. One post-doctoral fellow has received training on Extension IPM through his participation in field days and workshops. He has also submitted two fact sheet drafts for review and will be writing an Extension-oriented publication. Faculty, staff and students involved in this project have received multiple professional development opportunities. Examples of professional development during the last year of the project include: 2014 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (November 16-19), Portland, OR 2014 2nd International Symposium on Insects (December 1-3) held in Melaka, Malaysia 2014 Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) conference held on February 27 - March 1, 2014 in LaCrosse, WI. 2013 Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting (November 10-13), Austin, TX 2013 Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) conference held on February 21-23, 2013 in LaCrosse, WI How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The MU IPM website, along with an integrated email listserve for both newsletter articles and Pest Monitoring Network information has been a major driver of immediate communication. The LU IPM website also houses relevant information for vegetable and small crop producers. Both sites also act as a repository for clientele to access various fact sheets, manuals, and guides. Numerous workshops, including those on lawn care, IPM for small growers, pesticide applicator training, and Master Gardeners have been conducted throughout the region. During FY2014 we reached hundreds of farmers through our Extension activities. Research-based information has been disseminated through one-to-one interactions, workshops, presentations, extension publications, and on-farm demonstration trials. Our delivery methods are varied, and reflect the varying needs of our clientele. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? I. IPM Implementation in Agronomic Crops IPM Website The website serves as our central hub for information dissemination to our clientele.From Sept 2013 - August 31, 2015, the MU IPM website had 220,940 pageviews, with 107,224 originating from Missouri locations. During this same time period, 93 articles were submitted to the Integrated Crop Pest Management (ICPM) Newsletter, resulting in 75,759 total pageviews. An email delivery system was developed to deliver newsletter articles immediately to ICPM newsletter subscribers (n=1316). These articles had a broad array of topics including planting delay issues due to the wet spring/early summer weather of 2015, herbicide management options, corn, soybean, and winter wheat diseases, and alfalfa weevil and fall armyworm management. The website also houses the statewide Pest Monitoring Network which incorporates the results from 17 trappers monitoring one or more of 10 economically important insect pests in 19 counties in Missouri. One hundred and forty five alerts have been sent to growers through the system, which notifies subscribers (n = 341) via email to above threshold captures in their region. Publication: The new publication, IPM1031: Weed and Brush Control for Forages, Pastures, and Noncropland, was completed and published in November 2014. Pesticide Applicator Training: Several IPM faculty participate in statewide Commercial Pesticide Applicator Training events, and regional specialists facilitate Private Applicator Training. Over 4,000 individuals were reached in January 2014 and 2014 during five training events in Springfield, St. Louis, Columbia, Kansas City, and Cape Girardeau, MO. Gene Zoo & Crop Gardens: This website introduces the public to the wonderful diversity of agricultural plants that are critical to the livelihood of Missourians and the world. This site (http://genezoo.missouri.edu) went live in 2014 and serves as an introduction to the demonstration site at the University of Missouri Bradford Farms that displays extensive corn and soybean genetic collections. Future website entries will include biofuels, pulse crops, and noxious plants.. II. IPM Implementation in Communities Newsletter: Seventy-seven articles were submitted to the Missouri Environment and Garden MEG Newsletter from Sept 2013 - August 31, 2015, accounting for 62,853 total pageviews on the MU IPM website. As with the ICPM newsletter, an email delivery system was developed to deliver newsletter articles immediately to ICPM newsletter subscribers (n=1860). Popular articles included methods for avoiding wet weather problems in gardens and landscape beds, lawn care tips, and flower and bedding plant management. Lawncare Workshop Series: Two workshops were conducted in Springfield and Kansas City, MO to emphasize environmental stewardship and IPM principles in the lawn and landscape of urban homeowners. Approximately 60 attendees participated in each event, and the popularity has spurred design of a particular curriculum for future events, and a publication to serve as a training aid and bridge between homeowner and lawncare company. Master Gardener: Fifty-three Master Gardener programs are located throughout Missouri. IPM faculty contribute greatly to the presentation and delivery of this curriculum. In addition, a web application of online training modules was developed and launched in the past 9 months. Publication: The guide IPM 1020: Turfgrass Insects underwent a substantial revision and was published. A new guide, IPM 1032: Guide to Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases was also completed and published in this time frame. The Lincoln University IPM program successfully completed the activities, outputs and outcomes indicated for 2013-2014 (no-cost extension was granted until 08.31.2015). During this period of time, a series of workshops, field days, on-farm demonstrations and farm tours targeting farmers, as well as two In-Service Education IPM trainings targeting Extension educators from University of Missouri, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension, NRCS, Missouri Department of Agriculture and other agencies were conducted. One Post-Doctoral fellow received training on Extension IPM. A variety of outputs that included fact sheets, guide sheets, Newsletter articles and other publications were produced. The Lincoln University IPM program implemented projects to demonstrate IPM principles in the local communities. In 2013-2014, three on-farm research / demonstrations were conducted: (1) Mr. Jose Fonseca (St. Peters, MO), implemented trap cropping for effective management of squash bugs and cucumber beetles, (2) Robbins Hail (Osceola, MO) evaluated trap cropping to control multiple insect pests associated with cole crops, (3) Ms. Angela Hemwall (Pierpont Farms, Columbia, MO) demonstrated the effectiveness of trap cropping for control of multiple pests in cucurbits and also evaluated buckwheat to attract pollinators to the farm. Both short and mid-term outcomes derived from ISE workshops in IPM were documented. For example, results from online 9-month post-workshop surveys indicated that: (1) 2,453 farmers were assisted by 83 trainees using IPM information received at the workshops, (2) 26.5% of the respondents wrote articles for newsletters and/or newspaper columns using IPM information (131 total outputs), and (3) 86.7% of the respondents visited 595 farms and used IPM information. Overall, the implementation of this type of Extension IPM activities has proven successful, and the outcomes highlight the efforts that the LU IPM program is taking to train Extension educators within and outside Missouri in necessary IPM skills.

Publications

• Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Rosenbaum, K.K., Miller, G.L., Kremer, R.R., Bradley, K. 2014. Interactions between glyphosate, Fusarium infection of waterhemp, and soil microbial abundance and diversity in soil collections from Missouri. Weed Science. 62:1:71-84.
• Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. and Wilson, J.T. 2015  Poster presentation titled Trap cropping: A simple and effective organic IPM approach to manage multiple pests in cucurbits. 8th International IPM Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT (March 23-26).
• Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. and Wilson, J.T. 2014 - Poster presentation titled Trap cropping: A simple, effective, and inexpensive organic IPM approach to manage cucumber beetles and squash bugs in cucurbit crops. Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (November 13-16).
• Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. 2014. Poster presentation (winner of 1st place) titled Exploiting Synergistic Interactions within and across Insect Sensory Modalities for Improved Pest Management. 2nd International Symposium on Insects held in Melaka, Malaysia. Organized by the Entomological Society of Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (December 1-3).
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Bradley, K. 2014. IPM 1031, Weed and Brush Control for Forages, Pastures, and Noncropland. University of Missouri Extension
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Barrett, B., Fresenburg, B., and Miller, L. 2014. IPM 1020, Turfgrass Insects. University of Missouri Extension
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Houseman, R. M. 2014. Guide to Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. University of Missouri Extension
• Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. 2014. Oral presentation titled Promoting Farm Sustainability through Trap Cropping Research, Outreach, and Effective Integrated Pest Management Implementation in Small Farms in the Midwest USA. 2nd International Symposium on Insects held in Melaka, Malaysia. Organized by the Entomological Society of Malaysia and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (December 1-3).
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Wilson, J.T. and Pi�ero, J.C. 2014. The Japanese beetle. Lincoln University Cooperative Extension IPM program. Fact Sheet LUCE FS#18-D-2014.
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. and Byers, P.L. 2014. The "1-2-3" IPM Approach for Spotted Wing Drosophila Management. Newsletter Article available at http://ipm.missouri.edu/IPCM/2014/5/The-1-2-3-IPM-Approach-for-Spotted-Wing-Drosophila-Management/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. 2014. Monitoring Systems in place for Brown-Marmorated-Stink-Bug-and-Spotted-Wing-Drosophila for 2014. Newsletter Article available at http://ipm.missouri.edu/IPCM/2014/5/Brown-Marmorated-Stink-Bug-and-Spotted-Wing-Drosophila/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2014 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. 2014. Detecting larval infestations and insecticidal options for Spotted Wing Drosophila with notes on insecticidal options. Lincoln University Cooperative Extension, IPM Program. Guide Sheet LUCE GS#18-E-2014.
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. and Byers, P.L. 2013.Management Options for Spotted Wing Drosophila with emphasis on high-tunnel grown, fall-bearing primocane raspberries. Lincoln University Cooperative Extension, IPM Program. Guide Sheet LUCE GS#18-E-2014.
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: Pi�ero, J.C. 2013. Monitoring for Spotted Wing Drosophila, an Insect Pest of Berries and Other Fruits in Missouri. Lincoln University Cooperative Extension, IPM Program. Fact Sheet LUCE FS#18-A-2013.
• Type: Websites Status: Published Year Published: 2013 Citation: IPM Website The website serves as our central hub for information dissemination to our clientele. From Sept 2013  August 31, 2015, the MU IPM website had 220,940 pageviews, with 107,224 originating from Missouri locations. During this same time period, 93 articles were submitted to the Integrated Crop Pest Management (ICPM) Newsletter, resulting in 75,759 total pageviews. An email delivery system was developed to deliver newsletter articles immediately to ICPM (n=1377) and MEG subscribers (n=1863).