Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/24
Outputs
Target Audience:IPM COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION: All IPM stakeholders including agriculture, institutions, private citizens, academics and IPM colleagues. AGRONOMIC: Agronomic crop growers. COMMUNITIES: Individuals that garden, residents in MI communites, Extension master gardeners. SPECIALTY CROPS: Fruit growers, vegetable growers, nursery growers. POLLINATORS: Beekeepers (including military veterans in Heroes to Hives program, Spanish-speaking growers inUSDA funded La Cosecha project). Fruit, vegetable, and row crop growers, crop consultants, MSU Extension teams. All audiences are reached via a combination of in person or virtual educational programming, online newsletters, virtualcourses, demonstration workshops and more. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Enrollment of all EIP collaborators in the IPM Academy online course Enrollment of all EIP collaborators in the Michigan Pesticide Applicators Virtual Classroom Pest modeling training via Enviroweather IPM Symposium participation Honeybee Health Coalition participation Participation in NCERA222 trainings and networking Attendance at the International IPM Symposium Quarterly grant team meetings with PD related to grant management Participation in IPM Center Working Groups as well as the NCIPM Center Pests and Progress Webinar Series How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results are shared through MSUE News and digests, meetings/events, websites, social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), events, publications and one-on-one consultations. Accommodations for disabilities that may affect accessibility are available. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
IPM coordination and communicator team optimized IPM networking, outreach tools and strategies. This team wrote, edited and published over 600 educational articles via the MSU Extension News (65,000+ subscribers). The final 6 months of the project, readers were surveyed for impacts and reported the following (n=1,260): 29% learned about new IPM practices, 49% learned about invasive species; 6% used IPM strategies for the first time; 9% adopted a new IPM strategy; 13% adopted more advanced IPM strategies; 17% made changes to avoid excess nutrient or pesticide applications; 27% made changes to control invasives; and, 26% made changes to protect pollinator health. Marienfeld and grant collaborators managed and contributed to IPM ag and consumer focused websites that garnered 323,115 users and 365k session over the course of the grant. A number of new, IPM-focused webpages were developed by the team to address emerging issues including Bulletins Live! Two (950 users); Boxtree moth (2,734 users); Balsam wooly adelgid (2,735 users); Wildlife on the farm (11,000 users). Lizotte coordinated production and publication of a set of IPM podcasts: participated in annual NCERA222 meetings and surveys; contributing to NCERA222 infrastructure survey to evaluate state investments in IPM. Lizotte coordinates multiple IPM emerging issues teams. These respective groups bring together unique teams of MSU faculty, Farm Bureau, US FWS, EPA, DNR, and MDARD. The team coordinated the IPM Academy online course that had 574 participants over the project period. Respondents reported that (n=353): 84% gained knowledge to manage production risks; 74% gained knowledge to improve efficiency; 89% can make better pest management decisions; 74% will adopt improved production systems; 74% will mitigate production risks and 74% will improve production efficiency through the adoption of new practices/tech. Agronomic team optimized outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge, and adoption among agronomic crop growers. In year 1 of the project, the team taught new scouting techniques using technology like scouting apps and magnifiers connected to your phone camera. Eighty percent of people who attended the event said they were making a IPM change on their farm. The team also made progress towards launching the Michigan-focused online IPM course. In year 2 of the project, the online field crops IPM course was completed and published. 100% of users indicated they learned something and 90% of them indicated they plan to make changes to their business as a result of taking this course (n=10). They estimate a $15/acre economic benefit of implementing these new strategies. In year 3 of the project, the online IPM course for agronomic growers was updated maintained and a series of regional wheat field days were held. The team continued to provide scouting reports and IPM articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. Communities team optimized outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge, and adoption for residents, communities, and schools. In year 1 of the project, the team trained volunteers on IPM in the garden. Evaluation results showed knowledge gains in pest ID and reduction in pesticide use to combat gardening problems. The team installed demo gardens. In year 2 of the project, the team trained volunteers on reducing use of non-chemical inputs and identification of plant and insect concerns. One demo garden was installed. In year 3, The team maintained demo plantings, held a training event for Master Gardeners to assist in diagnostic response. Volunteers who completed this course were more likely to adopt management practices that avoid chemical inputs and are highly likely to share this information with others. The team continually provided scouting reports and IPM articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. Fruit team optimized outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge, and adoption among fruit growers. In years-3 1 of the project, traplines/RIMPro sites established and monitored during the growing season. Dozens of regional IPM Meeting were held with hundreds of attendees. The team continually provided scouting reports and IPM articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. Apple scab monitoring took place. Vegetable team optimized outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge, and adoption among vegetable growers. In years 1-3, this team's effort included the release of an updated Midwest Vegetable Production Guide, a mobile friendly pest management guide that allows growers to easily discover pest management tools and pesticides for the specific crop and pest, in a format that is easy to access via phone, so decisions can be made wherever they are on the farm. The information is vetted by regional University pest management specialists. Carrot and celery growers received weekly Aster Yellows text alerts, helping them decide whether or not to invest in insecticides to protect their crops; this alert service helps growers use insecticides only when needed, balancing the need for control with economic and environmental costs of pesticide application.Michigan vegetable growers received weekly updates, with timely information on pests, weeds and diseases, drawn from the past week's observations of our Vegetable Extension Team.The team continually to provide scouting reports and IPM articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. In years 2 and 3 an Onion Pest Management Strategic Plan was developed. The team continued to provide scouting reports and IPM articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. Nursery team optimized outreach tools and strategies to improve awareness, knowledge, and adoption of biological IPM control strategies among nursery growers. In years 1 and 2 this team worked on planning and producing a series of videos on biocontrol in greenhouses. In year 2, the team continued to make progress in the development of educational videos. In year 3, this team completed 50 minutes of educational video content.The team continually provided scouting reports and IPM articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. Pollinator team improved honey bee health through improved IPM awareness, knowledge, and adoption among bee keepers, growers, pesticide applicators, and educators. The team continually provided pollinator related articles--impact figures reported above in aggregate. Across 10 apiculture programs in year 1: 96% of program participants reported that their knowledge of the subject increased as a result of the program (n=138) and 83% of participants reported that their skill level increased as a result of the program (n=138). In year 2, team provided multiple programs for beekeepers). 98% report that their knowledge increased (n=86). 84% report that their skill level has increased (n=86). 73% report that they intend to make a change to improve honey bee colony health (n=85). Pollinator outreach efforts reached more than 5,216 stakeholders during year 2. In year 3, the team delivered 15 presentations and held 7 webinars and 7 in-hive beekeeping. Evaluation respondents across these programs reported the following impacts: 98% of program participants reported increased knowledge (n=281); and 90% improved honey bee colony.
Publications
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Progress 09/01/22 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:IPM COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION: All IPM stakeholders including agriculture, institutions, private citizens, academics and IPM colleagues. AGRONOMIC: Agronomic crop growers. COMMUNITIES: Individuals that garden, residents in MI communites, Extension master gardeners. SPECIALTY CROPS: Fruit growers, vegetable growers, nursery growers. POLLINATORS: Beekeepers (including military veterans in Heroes to Hives program, Spanish-speaking growers in USDAfunded La Cosecha project). Fruit, vegetable, and row crop growers, crop consultants, MSU Extension teams All audiences are reached via a combination of in person or virtual educational programming, online newsletters, virtual courses, demonstration workshops and more. Changes/Problems:Four collaborators have left the project since it started, but the remaining team is strong and able to complete the objectives of the project. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Enrollment of all EIPcollaborators in the IPM Academy online course Pest modeling training via Enviroweather IPM Symposium participation Honeybee Health Coalition participation How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results are shared through MSUE News and digests, meetings/events, websites, social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), events, publications and one-on-one consultations. Accomodations for disabilities that may affect accessibility are available. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Communication and Coordination Develop and implement a method to capture the impacts of MSUE News and other web-based outreach materials in collaboration with our communications team at MSU. Collaborate with MI plant ag leadership via the IPM Alliance. Continued engagement with commodity reps, agency staff, regional, national and international IPM colleagues and groups. Extend research-based IPM strategies through digital and non-digital resources including bulletins, webpages, online courses, webinars, podcasts and digital newsletters. Continued editing and publication of the MSUE plant ag news articles, bulletins, etc. National IPM networking and collaborative efforts through the IPM Centers and NCERA 222. Continued engagement in the NCERA 222 and NCIPM Center activities. Aid in promotion/distribution of IPM programming and resources, new and existing. Continued use of MSU/E outreach opportunities to promote IPM. Ensure outreach materials comply with Americans with Disabilities Act and provide technical editing services. Continue to edit and publish materials that maximize accessibility and continue to offer accommodations. Coordinate promotional campaigns for IPM resources. Coordinate invasive pest response teams. Coordinate weekly, in-season IPM meetings for MSU Teams including Fruit, Vegetable, Field Crops and Consumer Hort. Agronomic crops Will continue to build/update the Michigan-focused online field crops IPM course, including the addition of new content and modification of existing content. Includes video production work. Will continue to promote enrollment in the online course to diverse audience through multiple Extension channels and community partners. Communities Three additional Diagnostic Academies planned in different Michigan regions. Specifically, these will occur in the Upper Peninsula, East Lansing, and Detroit Metro. Participants will include conservation district workers, urban farmers, and Extension Master Gardener volunteers. Some of the students completing this training will join the Lawn and Garden Hotline and Ask Extension to maintain staffing needs and promote knowledge of IPM tools to private citizens who ask gardening questions to MSU diagnostic services. Individuals already serving as diagnostic responders will be offered continuing education webinars from MSU specialists and educators. Each Smart Habitat site will host a free, public event on gardening following best practices of IPM. The workshop will incorporate the types of plants installed at the Smart Habitat site. Production of two videos on integrated pest management and how it can be applicable at the residential scale. These will be shot at a subset of the Smart Habitat sites and published to the MSUE website and promoted broadly. Fruit Coordinate and oversee RIMPro/trapline sites. Execute scouting and provide scouting reports and in-season programs. Share results from 2023 monitoring via in-person meetings, newsletters and Constant Contact emailing lists. Vegetable Update and edit the 2022 Midwest Vegetable Production Guide for Commercial Growers and interactive website https://mwveguide.org/. Test vegetable farms for Phytophthora, Clavibacter, and various viruses. Scout vegetable farms and provide in-season crop scouting reports. Nursery Complete the script-writing process. Use the scripts and captured video to create and publish three of the seven videos. Investigate the feasibility of filming specific biological control agents in action. Publish and broadly promote the videos. Pollinator Health IPM workshops for beekeepers on selecting for genetic traits resistant to parasites and diseases. Hygienic testing workshop for beekeepers scheduled for 6/16/2023. Several in-hive workshops are scheduled to teach beekeepers how to monitor and manage varroa mites. Invited presentations and/or webinars to share information on IPM and how to monitor and manage varroa mites. Pollinator IPM presentations at meetings, workshops, and conferences Presentation to tree fruit growers on 6/28/23 Field day at the Monroe County Community College Student Ag Farm, August 2023 Other presentations as invited.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
IPM Coordination (66% complete) Objective: Optimizing outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption for agriculture, institutions and communities through robust state and national networking, coordination and communication. Marienfeld edited and published over 260 educational ag and consumer hort articles via Michigan State University (MSU) Extension News (65,000+ subscribers); ensuring they met accessibility, branding and technical writing standards. Marienfeld has coordinated weekly, in-season IPM meetings for MSU Teams. Lizotte continued to participate in regional/national IPM efforts, including: Coordinated, produced and published a set of podcasts to recognize the 50th anniversary of IPM in collaboration with NCERA222 members (111 downloads). Participated in NCERA222 infrastructure survey to evaluate state investments in IPM. Lizotte engaged with the planning committee for the International IPM Symposium. Lizotte filed USDA NIFA CPPM EIPM Progress Report and Continuation package. Lizotte coordinated the online training course for Michigan Certified Pesticide Applicators, 233 people completed the course during the reporting period. Lizotte coordinated the Michigan invasive pest response teams for spotted lanternfly and box tree moth. These respective groups bring together unique teams of MSU research faculty, Extension educators and colleagues from the MI Department of Ag and Rural Development and the MI Department of Natural Resources. Web-based spotted lanternfly content saw a combined total of 10,091 pageviews. Web-based box tree moth content saw a combined total of 3,342 pageviews. Lizotte continued to engage with the MI IPM Alliance on a number of issues. Lizotte oversaw the review, revision and continuation of three online courses related to lavender, hop and IPM respectively. In 2022 584 participated in the courses with the following major impacts.? IPM Implementation in Agronomic Crops (75% completed): Optimizing outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among agronomic crop growers. The online field crops IPM course has been completed and published. Twenty-six people have registered for the course and ten have completed it. The majority are full-time farmers (6) with the remainder being part-time farmers and agribusiness (4). They represented 12,600 acres collectively. 100% indicated they learned something and 90% of them indicated they plan to make changes to their business as a result of taking this course. (n=10) Changes in management include insect pest control (50%), plant disease (40%), weed control (20%) and nematode control (40%). (n=10) Changes will occur on 1,000 acres averaging $15/acre in increase revenue or savings. (n=10) IPM Implementation in Communities Objective (40% complete):Optimizing outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption for residents, communities and schools. First Diagnostic Academy cohort completed training volunteers on pest management in the garden. Cohort of Diagnostic Academy trained volunteers has answered over 40 questions on Ask Extension. Survey of Diagnostic Academy cohort demonstrated knowledge gains in identifying symptoms of insect and plant disease, ability to diagnose and solve plant problems, and reduction in pesticide use to combat gardening problems. Smart Habitats installed at 6 sites and highlight gardening to attract pollinators, container gardening, turf-alternatives, and native plants. Michigan residents visit these sites throughout the summer season and participated in an annual program at 5 of the 6 sites. Individuals visiting Smart Habitat sites use resources provided on signage to adopt low-input garden maintenance and inclusion of plants that are drought tolerant and suited to MI climate. Specialty Crops Fruit Objective (66% complete):Optimizing outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among fruit growers. Traplines/RIMPro sites established and monitored in 22/23 growing seasons. Dozens of regional IPM Meeting during the 2022 and 2023 growing season in all major fruit growing regions for small and tree fruit as well as chestnut and hops. Southwest weekly updates garnered 850 participants over 11 session in 2022 growing season. Dozens of regional IPM scouting reports distributed via MSUE News including the Southwest, West Central, Northwest and Southeast Michigan Fruit Updates. (7,911 newsletter subscribers, 18,000 pageviews for southwest regional report alone) Specialty Crop Vegetable Objective (90% complete):Optimizing outreach tools and strategies to improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among vegetable growers. The Midwest Vegetable Production guide website received 5,421 visits between January 26, 2022 and January 27, 2023, averaging 387 visits per month, with 37% of that traffic on mobile phones. The same resource was developed as a printed bulletin with advertisements at no cost to growers and over 3,000 were given out in 2022. In 2022, the MSU Vegetable Entomology Program tested 1,922 total aster leafhoppers from carrot and celery fields across MI. These were tested in the laboratory for the presence of aster yellows, 5 leafhoppers were detected positive. Results of the diagnostics were sent to growers and other industry personnel in 35 group text messages between May 23-Aug. 8, 2022. Weekly IPM and crop progress reports were viewed by an average of 350 per week, with a minimum viewership of 253 in early May and a maximum was 666 at the end of June. Nursery objective (70% complete): Optimizing outreach tools and strategies to improve awareness, knowledge and adoption of biological IPM control strategies among nursery growers. Continued to make progress in the develoipment of educational videos. IPM for Pollinator Health (70% completed): Improve honey bee health through improved IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among beekeepers, growers, pesticide applicators and educators. Total presentations to beekeepers: 16 presentations, 769 participants, plus 5 upcoming presentations before 6/15/23. Total presentations to colleagues/IPM educators: 2 presentations, 116 participants. Total presentations to growers/pesticide applications: 3 presentations, plus 2 upcoming presentation before 6/15/23. Program evaluation (across 10 apiculture programs in reporting period). 96% of program participants reported that their knowledge of the subject increased as a result of the program. (n=138) 83% of participants reported that their skill level increased as a result of the program. (n=138) 66% of program participants reported that they intend to make a change to improve honey bee colony health as a result of the information presented. An additional 19% of participants said that they would maybe make a change. (n=129) Overall IMPACT SUMMARRY COUNT Peer-reviewed publications: 0 Non-peer-reviewed publications: 31 Presentations: 66 Total number of people reached: 40,325 conservatively
Publications
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Heck, Ana. 2022. Michigan Managed Pollinator Protection Plan. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/michigan-managed-pollinator-protection-plan
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Websites
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Published
Year Published:
2023
Citation:
Spotted lanternfly IPM website. 2023. https://www.canr.msu.edu/ipm/Invasive_species/spotted-lanternfly
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2023
Citation:
Box tree moth IPM website. 2023. https://www.canr.msu.edu/tag/box-tree-moth
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2023
Citation:
Phillips, B. et.al. 2023 Midwest Vegetable Growers Guide. https://mwveguide.org/
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Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:IPM COORDINATION AND COMMUNICATION: All IPM stakeholders including agriculture, institutions, and private citizens. Academics and IPM colleagues. AGRONOMIC: Agronomic crop growers. COMMUNITIES: Individuals that garden, residents in MI communites, Extension master gardeners. SPECIALTY CROPS: Fruit growers, vegetable growers, nursery growers. POLLINATORS: Beekeepers (including military veterans in Heroes to Hives program, Spanish-speaking growers in USDA-funded La Cosecha project). Fruit, vegetable, and row crop growers, crop consultants, MSU Extension teams Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Participation in NCERA222 trainings and networking Attendance at the International IPM Symposium Quarterly grant team meetings with PD related to grant management Participation in IPM Center Working Groups as well as the NCIPM Center Pests and Progress Webinar Series How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results are shared through MSUE News and digests, meetings/events, websites, social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), events, publications and one-on-one consultations. Accomodations for disabilities that may affect accessibility are available. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Michigan agriculture is exceptionally diverse and crucial to the economy. Michigan farms and their economic output are at risk from rapidlyevolving pest challenges including invasive pests, climate change, consumer perceptions,pesticide resistance, and regulatory challenges. This project is focused on improving stakeholder awareness, knowledge and adoption of IPM practices by optimizing outreach through intentional coordination and strategic communication. The target outcomes include the following:Safe, affordable and high-quality crops are widely available to consumers; and,Effective, affordable, and environmentally-sound IPM strategies are in place to reduce economic, environmental, and societal losses from pests and diseases that affect crops, human well-being and community vitality;Coordinated state-based, region-wide and national research, education, and extension programs function as catalysts for promoting further development and use of new IPM approaches. During thiereporting period, MSU IPM outreach efforts have reached well over 100,000 stakeholders, authored 51 outreach publications, edited and published 200 educational articles and provided 26presentations. Major accomplishments Coordination and Communication Increased IPM awareness and knowledge through outreach: The IPM Communications Manager (IPMCM)published over 200 educational articles (~118,970 views) on the MSU Extension website (6M page hits annually). The IPMCM distributed plant agriculture news digests (65,000+ subscribers). The IPMCMprovided technical editing on all plant ag related articles and ensured they meet accessibility standards. The IPMC and IPMCM updates and maintained the MSU IPM Website that houses info on invasive pests, wildlife management and much more. (195,000 page views during the reporting period). The top content articles were related to dealing with spongy moth (21,000 views) and weed identification (11,000 views). The IPMC and IPMCM managed 4virtual classes with IPM information that drew 476 participants during the reporting period. IPM Academy ReportedImpacts (N=269, n~190) 67% Gained knowledge to manage production risks. 73% Gained knowledge to improve production efficiencies. 64% Can make better pest management decisions. 73% Will adopt improved production systems and techniques to sustain profitability and environmental stewardship. 71% Will make management decisions that help mitigate production risks. 72% Will improve production efficiency through the adoption of new practices and use of technology. Pesticide Applicator Virtual Classroom Reported Impacts (N=132, n=132) 85%improved knowledge of practices that help reduce production risks associated with pesticide application (e.g. environmental, human exposure). 38% plan to implement changes to pesticide handling practices to reduce risks. Lavender: A Curriculum for Growers Reported Impacts 91% gained knowledge in managing production risks. 87% gained knowledge in improving production efficiency. 85% can make better management decisions to control pests. 81% will adopt improved production systems and horticultural techniques to sustain operation profitability and environmental stewardship. 84% will make management decisions that will help mitigate production risks. 73% will improve production efficiency through adoption of new practices and use of technology. Robust state and national networking and coordination: IPM Coordinator is leading effort to produce a podcast series celebrating the 50th anniversary of IPM and improving knowledge and awareness of IPM in IPM practitioners and the public. This is a collaborative project with multiple NCERA222 member states participating. IPM Coordinator is partnering with the National Pesticide Safety Education Center to coordinate a regional/national effort to develop online training tools to optimize resources and impact. Lizotte is serving on the Statewide Spotted Lanternfly Response Team with the Michigan Department of Ag and Rural Development and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. The IPM Program facilitatedweekly, in-season IPM meetings for MSU Teams including Fruit, Vegetable, Field Crops and Consumer Hort to assure timely communication internally and the development of needed resources for stakeholders. The IPM Program working with the national Soybean Cyst Nematode Coalition to push out important outreach information via MSU channels. The IPMC coordinatesquarterly meetings with the MSU EIP Grant Team to improve communication, outreach and reporting efforts. IPMC participated in MI IPM Advisory Council to share opportunities and challenges related to pest management directly with EPA. Agronomic IPM Improved IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption: Increased awareness of modern technologies crop growers can use to improve scouting accuracy and speed.Taught new scouting techniquesusingtechnology like scouting apps and magnifiers connected to your phone camera.Eighty percent of people who attended the event said they were makinga IPMchange on their farm. Progress towards launching the Michigan-focused online IPM course. This course has the potential to improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among agronomic crop growers. Communities IPM Optimizing outreach tools to improveIPM awareness, knowledge and adoption: Completed the first training class of volunteers who will incorporate integrated pest management in community gardens. Volunteers will train and educate others in the community on reducing use of non-chemical inputs and identification of plant and insect concerns. One Smart habitat site installed and other seven sites have ordered plants and begun design and installation of smart habitats for container gardening, pollinators, and native plants. Fruit IPM Improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among fruit growers: Scouting and crop scouting reports distributed to 8,665 subscribers. Apple scab monitoring occurring. Regional IPM fruit meetings underway. Vegetable IPM Improve IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among vegetable growers: Increased adoption of fungicides to prevent Phytophthora crown and fruit rot. Increased adoption of grafted tomatoes in hoop houses for soil disease mitigation. Published multiple scouting and management reports, distributed to 9,584 subscribers. Developed a new Onion Pest Management Strategic Plan with IR-4 staff, growers, industry crop consultants, chem seed reps meet with MSU specialists to prioritize IPM needs in a formal document. March 2022. Nursery IPM Improve awareness, knowledge and adoption of biological IPM control strategies among nursery growers: Planning and production of first series of biological control in greenhouse series is well underway. First impacts will be generated in year two of the project. Pollinators IPM Improved honey bee health through improved IPM awareness, knowledge and adoption among beekeepers, growers, pesticide applicators and educators: 2022 programs for beekeepers that include information about monitoring and managing varroa mite (in-hive pest): 98% report that their knowledge has increased as a result of the program (n=86). 84% report that their skill level has increased as a result of the program (n=86). 73% report that they intend to make a change to improve honey bee colony health as a result of the information presented (n=85). 67% report that if theyimplement changes in their operation based on whatthey learned from the program, they will see an impact on their operation's profitability (n=85). Produced dozens of outreach articles, presentations and events. Collaborated regionally and nationally to optimize resources and impact. Pollinator outreach efforts eached more than 5,216 stakeholders.
Publications
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Ben Phillips, Marty Chilvers. March 2022. Fresh market snap beans, sweet corn face diseaes. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ckHKHA3g9qIZcd_FesPzu2MQhciPranP/view?usp=sharing
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Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Fruit Scouting reports published in 2022
Amy Irish-Brown, https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/amy_irish_brown?profileDisplayContent=related-work
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update May 31, 2022, May 31, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update May 24, 2022, May 24, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update May 17, 2022, May 17, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update May 10, 2022, May 10, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update May 3, 2022, May 3, 2022
Honeycrisp crop management for 2022, April 26, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update April 26, 2022, April 26, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update April 19, 2022, April 19, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update April 12, 2022, April 12, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update April 5, 2022, April 5, 2022
Grand Rapids area tree fruit update March 29, 2022, March 29, 2022
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Websites
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Year Published:
2022
Citation:
IPM Scouting Reports published in 2022
Michael Reinke, https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/michael-reinke?profileDisplayContent=related-work
Southwest Michigan fruit update May 31, 2022, May 31, 2022
Michigan vegetable crop report - May 24, 2022, May 25, 2022
Michigan grape scouting report May 25, 2022, May 25, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update May 24, 2022, May 24, 2022
Michigan vegetable crop report - May 18, 2022, May 18, 2022
Michigan grape scouting report May 18, 2022, May 18, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update May 17, 2022, May 17, 2022
Michigan grape scouting report May 11, 2022, May 11, 2022
Michigan vegetable crop report - May 11, 2022, May 11, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update May 10, 2022, May 10, 2022
Michigan vegetable crop report - May 4, 2022, May 4, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update May 3, 2022, May 3, 2022
Michigan vegetable crop report - April 28, 2022, April 28, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update April 26, 2022, April 26, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update April 19, 2022, April 19, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update April 12, 2022, April 12, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update April 5, 2022, April 5, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update March 29, 2022, March 29, 2022
Opportunities for mechanization and precision viticulture in Michigan wine and juice grape vineyards, March 7, 2022
Grape winter bud hardiness: January 2022 mid-winter research update, January 24, 2022
Southwest Michigan fruit update 2021 review, January 12, 2022
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Ben Phillips. February 2022. Learning from the u-pick pros at GLEXPO. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VFLDqa2dsIc2da7Pp2e6XucuFBWnXGMr/view?usp=sharing
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Ben Werling, Lina Rodriguez, Zsofia Szendrei. January 2022. How diseases and pests overwinter up north. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXE6B77eZklj34ftKGNUu5rDyNHaNqyy/view?usp=sharing
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Other
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Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Mary Hausbeck, Matthew Uebbing. December 2021. Cucurbit downy mildew research cuts risk. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOyRtRWzBZLFUQtPLA85epTl2Vkzg7b3/view?usp=sharing
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Natalie Hoidal. November 2021. Learning to grow broccoli with new challenges. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jzu4LWpEQJCi43C78Q7k-QOHz0ou3cdd/view?usp=sharing
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Other
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Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Ben Werling, James Dedecker. October 2021. Vertebrate management tips for vegetable growers. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xxb2dTQFzecmZ0MA0jjgeUkvJJfUI1aY/view?usp=sharing
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Other
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Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Ben Werling, Younsuk Dong. September 2021. A look at what can soil moisture sensors do. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CmYUMqjdg3KCMEa8mEOiTYsFtkah_AVM/view?usp=sharing
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Other
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Ben Werling, Mary Hausbeck. March 2022. Onion Pest Management Strategic Plan. IR-4 staff, growers, crop consultants, chem and seed reps meet with MSU specialists to prioritize IPM needs in a formal document.
27 people in-person
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Heck Ana. April 2022. Michigan Managed Pollinator Protection Plan. Michigan State University Extension News. https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/ana-heck
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Heck, Ana. April 2022. Pollinator supportive trees and shrubs for farm and orchard windbreaks. Michigan State University Extension News. https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/ana-heck
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Heck, Ana. 2022. Somewhere for the pollinators to go: A case study of establishing large-scale pollinator habitat - Pollination. Michigan State University Extension News. https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/ana-heck
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Heck, Ana. December 2021. Apiculture Extension update from Michigan State University Extension - Pollination . Michigan State University Extension News. https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/ana-heck
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Conference Papers and Presentations
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Heck, Ana. Pollinator Stewardship Guide for Vegetable Growers and Pollinator Stewardship Guide for Blueberry Growers posters submitted, accepted, and shared at the Great Lakes Expo 2021.
- Type:
Books
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Phillips, Ben, et. al. December 2021. Midwest Vegetable Production Guide.
https://www.mwveguide.org
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Benjamin Phillips, Benjamin Werling, Michael Reinke, Mary Hausbeck, Sushila Chaudhari, Zsofia Szendrei, Zachary Hayden, Daniel Brainard, Jeffrey Andresen, Jaime Willbur and Jan Byrne, Michigan State University Extension. April 2022. Michigan vegetable crop report - April 28, 2022. https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/michigan-vegetable-crop-report-april-28-2022
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Grower newsletter
Ben Werling, Zsofia Szendrei. April 2022. Controlling cabbage maggot in turnips with the Lorsban ban.
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Vegetable Growers News Magazine Column
Vicki Morrone. April 2022. Cover crops benefit the soil and future harvests. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eYi3Tmbh260ndxqTsyGRjeaqf5TvNbSP/view?usp=sharing
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