Progress 09/01/15 to 02/28/16
Outputs
Target Audience:University faculty and staff, esp. those directly related to IPM-related fields Extension Educators and agents Commodity groups Industry Regional Technical Commities (specifically, SERA003) Federal REgulatory Agencies (EPA, USDA-OPMP, etc.) Other REgional IPM Centers Community Stakeholders (e.g. anyone who does IPM, or would like to do IPM such as: growers, crop consultants, teachers andcafeteria workers in schools as well asgrounds crews andcustodians , professional pest management consultants, landscapers, environmental advocates, etc.) Changes/Problems:Project Director James VanKirk retired effective July 1, 2015. This change was anticipated, with Dr. Seth Carley assuming the leadership role at NCSU in continued cooperation with Mr. LaForest at UGA and Dr. Fadamiro at Auburn U. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?We have hosted a few webinars and "how to" sessions on using Basecamp, and on our FITT program. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results were disseminated primarily SIPMC staff led by our Communications Specialist using public presentation, our website, email and email lists, blogs and social networking outlets. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?This is an annual report, but today is the last day of the grant, so we will be submitting our fianl report in the next60 days.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The Regulatory Information Network stillresponded to EPA and other regulatory queries and was transitioned in the new project to a new configuration with a single liaison for each state and territory in the region that is still in effect. Southern Region staff chaired the National IPM Centers Coordinating Committee for two years (completed our term in July of 2015), managing meetings three times a year and monthly teleconferences. Since our PD retired in the summer of 2015, we had wrapped up much of what we had planned to do on this grant.The only items left to complete this projectwere mainly completing subcontracts, reports, and keeping up with the various items of paperwork associated with each. We continued to post Crop PRofiles, and PMSPs as they came in, and were still active in publishing our blog ( from August 2015 to today, February 29, we posted over 350 articles.) Refer to thelast progress report for the other details through August, 2015.
Publications
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
IPM in the South: A publication of the Southern Region. http://ipmsouth.com/
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Gatton, H. 2015. Crop Profile for Sweet Corn in Virginia. 22pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/VA_CP_SweetCorn_2015.pdf
- Type:
Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Southern Region IPM News. http://ipmsouthnews.com/
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
Reynolds, C. 2015. 2015 Texas Turfgrass Crop Profile
and Pest Management Strategic Plan. 132 pp.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/pmsp/pdf/TX%20Turfgrass%20PMSP%202015.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2015
Citation:
LeBude, A. 2015. Pest Management Strategic Plan for
Container and Field-Produced Nursery Crops in FL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, and VA: Revision 2015. 239 pp.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/pmsp/pdf/SNIPMnurserycrops2015.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Anon. 2016. Crop Profile for Tobacco in North Carolina.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/NCtobacco2015.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2016
Citation:
Green, T. 2016. SCHOOL IPM 2015:
A Strategic Plan for Integrated Pest Management in Schools in the United States. 286 pp.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/pmsp/pdf/USschoolsPMSP.pdf
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Progress 09/01/12 to 02/28/16
Outputs
Target Audience:Advisory Council, Pesticide Safety Education Program Educators, Extension Administrators, experiment station directors, University and College deans and provosts, NGOs, Federal Partners, Growers, Extension specialists, IPM faculty and staff, 1890 universities, working group members, homeowners, landscaping professionals, growers, hospital/school/daycare managers, Regional technical committee members (SERA003), consumers, regulators Changes/Problems:Project Director James VanKirk retired effective July 1, 2015. This change was anticipated, with Dr. Seth Carley assuming the leadership role at NCSU in continued cooperation with Mr. LaForest at UGA and Dr. Fadamiro at Auburn U. We do not anticipate any deleterious effects. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results were disseminated primarily SIPMC staff led by our Communications Specialist using public presentation, our website, email and email lists, blogs and social networking outlet What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This project is very closely related to "Southern Region IPM Center Partnership" which is its continuation. With the exception of new Crop Profiles and the Pest Management Stategic Plan reported in "Other Products", most accomplishments have been reported under the newer project. IPM Enhancement grants describe in last year's progress reports as well as extended projects from the previous year were monitored and assisted, with progress and final reports for each project reported through the PPMS system at http://projects.ipmcenters.org/Southern/public/searchProjects.cfm. The Regulatory Information Network responded to EPA and other regulatory queries and was transitioned in the new project to a new configuration with a single liaison for each state and territory in the region. Southern Region staff chaired the National IPM Centers Coordinating Committee for two years, managing meetings three times a year and monthly teleconferences. As NIPMCCC chair, we also assisted with planning and facilitation of the National IPM Committee, including annual meetings.
Publications
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2013
Citation:
Southern Region IPM Center. http://www.sripmc.org
Websites 2013
IPM in the South: A publication of the Southern Region. http://ipmsouth.com/
Websites 2013
Southern Region IPM News. http://ipmsouthnews.com/
Websites 2013
Apperson, C.S. and W.L. Nicholson (eds.). 2013. Proceedings of a regional workshop to assess research and outreach needs in integrated pest management to reduce the incidence of tick-borne diseases in the southern United States. Tom Harkins Global Communication Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. January 21-23, 2009. (available online at: www.sripmc.org/tickworkshop/)
Conference Papers and Presentations 2013
Gravois, K.G. 2014. Crop Profile for Sugarcane in Louisiana. 9pp http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/LAsugarcane2014.pdf
Other 2014
Bost, S., F. Hale, D. Hensley, A. Wszelaski. 2014. Crop Profile for Tomatoes in Tennessee. 62 pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/TN-tomato-2014.pdf
Other 2014
Anon. 2014. Crop Profile for Mango in Florida. 11pp.http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/FLmango2014.pdf
Other 2014
Gatton, H.A. 2014. Crop Profile for Peanuts in Virginia. 17pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/VAPeanut2014.pdf
Other 2014
Anon. 2014. Crop Profile for Mamey Sapote and Sapodilla in Florida. 9pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/FLmameysapoteandsapodilla2014.pdf
Other 2014
Anon. 2014. Crop Profile for Carambola in Florida. 8pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/FLcarambola2014.pdf
Other 2014
IPM in the South: A publication of the Southern Region. http://ipmsouth.com/
Websites 2015
Gatton, H. 2015. Crop Profile for Sweet Corn in Virginia. 22pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/VA_CP_SweetCorn_2015.pdf
Other 2015
Southern Region IPM News. http://ipmsouthnews.com/
Websites 2015
Reynolds, C. 2015. 2015 Texas Turfgrass Crop Profile
and Pest Management Strategic Plan. 132 pp.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/pmsp/pdf/TX%20Turfgrass%20PMSP%202015.pdf
Other 2015
Green, T. 2016. SCHOOL IPM 2015:
A Strategic Plan for Integrated Pest Management in Schools in the United States. 286 pp.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/pmsp/pdf/USschoolsPMSP.pdf
Other 2016
LeBude, A. 2015. Pest Management Strategic Plan for
Container and Field-Produced Nursery Crops in FL, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN, and VA: Revision 2015. 239 pp.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/pmsp/pdf/SNIPMnurserycrops2015.pdf
Other 2015
Anon. 2016. Crop Profile for Tobacco in North Carolina.
http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/NCtobacco2015.pdf
Other 2016
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Progress 09/01/13 to 08/31/14
Outputs
Target Audience:
Nothing Reported
Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? We continue to disseminate results in ways detailed in previous reports: through our websites (www.sripmc.org), social media accounts, emails, online newsletters, etc. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Each objective will be addressed for the remainder of this grant much as we have outlined in previous reports and as detailed in grant renewals. IPM Enhancement Grant projects will be monitored for completion and submission of reports in our online reporting system, the FITT program will continue to support IPM efforts in many ways, Dr. Seth Carley will continue to lead the Regulatory Information Network, and we will continue to provide and update websites, social network outlets, etc.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: Establish and maintain information networks. Components include: The Regulatory Information Network (RIN) continues to respond to pesticide registration-related queries from EPA and the USDA Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP) including a concerning a data gap on use of malathion in non-agricultural areas, and malathion use in ornamentals; and a similar survey in early 2014 for malathion, focusing on public health. We have also had a call for information on the use of neonicotinoids in agriculture, and a follow-up survey specifically for “experts” for efficacy of neonicotinoid seed treatments in row crops. We shared a number of requests for public comment periods including information on worker safety, and three fungicides under review including pyraclostrobin, terrazole (etridiazole), and zoxamide. We are also working closely with OPMP and the EPA to develop a “user-friendly” generic survey for fungicides to facilitate ease of response moving forward. The first draft of the generic survey is complete, and when the next call for information for the use of a fungicide comes out, we will be ready to deploy this survey. We host semi-regular conference calls (6 total in 2014) involve stakeholders from USDA OPMP, EPA BEAD, EPA regions 2, 4, and 6, IR-4 and members of the former southern State Contact network. Recent Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans, also shown in the publications list, are Crop Profiles for LA sugarcane, TN tomato; VA peanut; FL mango; FL mamey sapote and sapodilla; and FL carambola. Others currently in process include peanut (NC), cotton (MS), Christmas trees, Landscape installation, Irish potatoes, strawberries, soybean, peanut, sweet potato, turfgrass, and watermelon (NC); and Texas turfgrass PMSP. 2. Advisory Council (AC), Steering Committee (SC) and Working Groups (WGs): Advisory Council membership is listed at http://www.sripmc.org/ac/index.cfm . The AC met on 24 February 2014 in Atlanta, GA, with report focusing primarily on components to be included in the next grant proposal (because by then USDA-NIFA had announced that IPM Centers would be re-competed in the 2014 Consolidated Crop and Pest Management grants program.) Several aspects of our subsequent proposal (since funded) directly resulted from that discussion. The AC will meet again, in Atlanta, on 30 and 31 October. SC membership presented http://www.sripmc.org/sc/index.cfm. We continue to support WGs including: the Southern School IPM WG; eFly, the Southern Spotted Wing Drosophila WG; and the Southern Nursery IPM (SNIPM) WG. 3. We participate in, contribute to and support networks including collaboration with other National IPM Centers Coordinating Committee (VanKirk is current chair), the National IPM Coordinating Committee (VanKirk served as a primary organizer of the Oct 2013 meeting and the Sep 2014 meeting), the Federal IPM Coordinating Committee and APLU's BAA Working Group on IPM. Objective 2: Build partnerships to address challenges and opportunities: We continue as noted in the 2013 progress report. Objective 3: Signature Global Food Security Programs SIPMC Grants Programs: The IPM Enhancement Grants Program (IPMEP) funded 11 one-year proposals for a total of $306,733. Titles are presented in the “other products” Facilitation of Innovation Through Technology (FITT): This component, under leadership of co-Director Joseph LaForest, provides complementary database, communications, and related IT support for working groups and other collaborative efforts supported either by SIPMC or through other means. Select components under FITT are listed below: Basecamp, an online project management and organization application, is used by 419 people to coordinate 8 different working groups and projects at both the regional and national level. These include Small Farms Working group, Find-A-Plant, eFly Working group for Spotted Wing Drosophila, IPM Center Directors, Watermelon and Cilantro Pesticide Education, Southern Nursery IPM Working group, National IPM Committee, and SERA003 KudzuBug.Org was created to provide up-to-date information on Megacopta cribraria. In the past year, the site has received 43,497 page views from 16,822 unique users in 20,407 visits to the website. The site features both the most current distribution of this new pest but also the ability for citizen scientists to submit a report of kudzu bug to the working group and provide images for validation. The system has managed 292 kudzu bug reports from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014. Real-time occurrence maps are available for embedding on any website with links to allow viral sharing. Among the 4,627 Species represented by these maps are spotted wing drosophila, brown marmorated stink bug, and kudzu bug. Early adopters of the map embedding include University of Georgia (https://blog.extension.uga.edu/ipm/) and North Carolina State University (http://ipm.ces.ncsu.edu/other-pest-sightings/) Mailchimp, an online system for e-mail newsletter management and tracking of user interaction with the newsletter. Implementation with University of Tennessee (http://news.utcrops.com/), Virginia Ag Pest and Crop Advisory (http://blogs.ext.vt.edu/ag-pest-advisory/), and the Southern IPM Center (http://ipmsouth.com/) is allowing us to better understand how the 971 people associated with those publications interact with those information sources and will help us to better understand the information networks withing the region. Georgia and North Carolina have expressed interest in using this service and will likely begin using it in the next year. Small Farms Working Group (SFWG): Activities supported by the current project, funded with year 2 funds, include an annual workshop held at the Kentucky State University facility in Frankfort, Kentucky, June 23-25, 2014. The group is currently collaborating to develop and publish small farm IPM guides for key specialty crops in the southern region (i.e. tomato, blueberry and strawberry). Objective 4: Review & evaluate impacts of IPM implementation; Evaluate impacts: We continue to use evaluation mechanisms developed over previous funding cycles to identify and document project impacts much as reported in the 2013 progress report. Communicate Success: Communicate Success: Friends of Southern IPM Award: We communicate success of IPM approaches and projects in many ways including those mentioned under Objective 1 part B and part A of this objective. This year's winners were: Bright Idea: Southern Nursery IPM Working Group (SNIPM), a multi-state collaboration; IPM Implementer: New Orleans Mosquito, Rodent & Termite Control Board, New Orleans, LA; IPM Educator: Gus Lorenz, University of Arkansas; Pulling Together: Saltcedar Biological Control Team, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension; Lifetime Achievement: Dan L. Horton, University of Georgia; Jhalendra Rijal, Graduate Student award (Ph.D.), Virginia Tech; Molly Stedfast, Graduate Student award, (MS) Virginia Tech; Venues to present awards, where we were able to share information about IPM and SIPMC, included: Southeastern Branch of the ESA annual meeting; Southwestern Branch of the ESA annual meeting; Eastern Branch of the ESA annual meeting; New Orleans City Council meeting; and Southern Nursery Association annual conference. The award presentation for the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board was videotaped and will have further reach among the stakeholders in New Orleans. Stories either about or by each recipient are posted in http://ipmsouth.com. Objective 5: Manage funding resources effectively: We continue to use standard protocols for handling the SIPMC competitive grants program as previously described.
Publications
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Gravois, K.G. 2014. Crop Profile for Sugarcane in Louisiana. 9pp http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/LAsugarcane2014.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Bost, S., F. Hale, D. Hensley, A. Wszelaski. 2014. Crop Profile for Tomatoes in Tennessee. 62 pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/TN-tomato-2014.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Anon. 2014. Crop Profile for Mango in Florida. 11pp.http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/FLmango2014.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Gatton, H.A. 2014. Crop Profile for Peanuts in Virginia. 17pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/VAPeanut2014.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Anon. 2014. Crop Profile for Mamey Sapote and Sapodilla in Florida. 9pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/FLmameysapoteandsapodilla2014.pdf
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2014
Citation:
Anon. 2014. Crop Profile for Carambola in Florida. 8pp. http://www.ipmcenters.org/cropprofiles/docs/FLcarambola2014.pdf
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Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: The target audience for this project includes any stakeholder in Integrated Pest Management and IPM programs in the Southern Region of the United States: IPM users, researchers and educators, advisors, and public policy makers. Changes/Problems: We are in the midst of three personnel changes. James VanKirk and Henry Fadamiro will continue as Director and Associate Director, respectively. Stephen Toth is leaving the NCSU system. Joseph LaForest has recently been promoted within the UGA system to a position that allows his participation as PD on competitive grants; when that promotion is finalized co-PD Charles Bargeron will step down as co-PD, Mr. LaForest will become a co-PD and his title will change to Associate Director. We will hire a Regulatory Issues Coordinator (tentative title) with funding for this position shared between this and other related projects. This change is necessitated by the departure of Mr. Toth from SIPMC. The Coordinator’s primary responsibility will be to support and facilitate RIN and other regulatory-related functions. Duties will include organization of monthly regional teleconferences; coordination of responses to agency queries; coordination of Crop Profile updates; production of otherwise unplanned Crop Profile updates; and redesign, repopulation and maintenance of our expertise database. Through a different grant proposal (EIPMDSS) we hope to fund a redesign of the PMSP system, creating a truly database-driven system that will be more useful, have broader application, and be more easily updatable than our current approach. The Regulatory Issues Coordinator would be partly funded through that proposal and would be charged with integrating existing PMSPs into the new system once it is ready. SIPMC will develop 2-4 single page fact sheets about SIPMC modeled on the pages recently developed and distributed by WIPMC. We have included requests for printing and postage in this year’s budget request in order to produce these and distribute them to key stakeholders including LGU administrators across the region and Congress and Senate offices representing our region. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Successes are shared in a number of ways, including the Friends of Southern IPM awards program included above in the reporting field “What was accomplished under these goals?” Internet Communications: We continue to use our website and related Internet components as a nexus of communications and information archiving. Information provided includes: Contact information of IPM programs and other key stakeholders in the region. In the past year, we have worked with NIFA to ensure that contact information for IPM Coordinators and PSEP Coordinators (on ipmcenters.org) are up to date. We also maintain current membership lists of working groups including the School IPM Working Group and the Small Farms Working Group. National and regional news concerning IPM. We use our Southern IPM News blog (http://ipmsouthnews.com) to highlight IPM-related stories from sources outside of SIPMC. News stories come from Delta Farm Press, Southeast Farm Press, USDA ARS and EPA news stories, and e-mails from listservs such as Schoolbugs and School IPM. The blog has had: 426 posts since its inception; 207 since September 2, 2012. 426 followers, including Twitter and blog followers. As is the case with IPM in the South, many of these posts are retweeted. Posts on organic related news, whether it be webinars or copy from news articles, seem to be retweeted more often than other topics. The blog has received 12,508 views altogether. Titles from blog entries automatically are tweeted through Twitter; some of them are placed in Facebook. Announcements regarding funding and employment opportunities. Southern IPM Jobs (http://ipmsouthjobs.com) and Southern IPM Funding (http://ipmsouthfunding.com) disseminate any available employment or funding opportunity, regardless of location. Statistics include: Southern IPM Funding: 33 posts since its inception; 398 followers, including Twitter and blog followers. This blog has less of a general audience than IPM in the South and Southern IPM News. The blog has received 1,433 views. Southern IPM Jobs: 46 posts since its inception; 367 followers, including Twitter and blog followers. As is the case with Southern IPM Funding, this blog is not updated as frequently as the first two and has a more targeted audience. The blog has received 1,983 views altogether. Commentary on recent IPM issues or research via a blog. The Communication Specialist (CS) uses IPM in the South (http://ipmsouth.com) to disseminate success stories, SIPMC press releases (for a wider audience than simply the media lists) and educational commentary on multi-sided IPM issues. For instance, in response to a flurry of news debating organic and conventional practices, the CS wrote an article explaining the pros and cons of both. Last fall the CS wrote a series of articles comparing conventional, IPM, sustainable and organic farming practices. Interestingly, WordPress statistics show that the most popular topic, even in light of some articles about very hot button issues, is “the difference between bed bugs and ticks.” Statistics include: 186 posts since its inception; 44 posts since September 1, 2012. 428 followers, including Twitter and blog followers. When post titles are “tweeted,” many of them are “retweeted” by individuals with even more followers, so the reach of this blog is further than simply our followers. The blog has received 57,413 views altogether. The blog receives between 120 to 140 views per day. News, information about funding and employment opportunities, and weekly blog topics are currently sent to nearly 400 followers on Twitter, and shared on Facebook. To date the Twitter account has 396 followers, 1,235 tweets and is following 255 other Twitter users. Followers are a mix of pest control companies, Extension specialists, other Regional IPM Centers, Master Gardeners, horticultural operations and other miscellaneous professions. Successes include: Many of the tweets are re-tweeted by users with followers in the hundreds or thousands. Tweets regarding eXtension webinars and posts about organic agriculture are most likely to be re-tweeted. Some of the tweets have been the subject of conversations among Twitter users, indicating that subjects have at least interested them enough to comment on them. The Facebook page (http://facebook.com/SRIPMC) seems to reach a different audience from the blogs and Twitter accounts. Most of our “likes” have come from urban IPM professionals, including school IPM coordinators, but some of the topics that are most viewed concern homeowner IPM issues. This and a new Pinterest page will be two areas that the Communication Specialist will try to expand on and be more targeted in terms of drawing in certain types of audiences. Current successes include: 72 likes Any given post can have its own views; some of the posts have been heavily viewed. For instance, a post about cicada management for homeowners had 211 views. Our regional IPM listserv currently includes about 480 subscribers. This list is growing based on new contacts in our proposal and project system. However, while the base list may be relatively small, the contacts on that list have specifically requested us to filter communication through them rather than adding extension agents and individual growers. They relay the information that we send them to the stakeholders in their state that would be affected by or interested in the information we are providing. For instance, when we used the list in the fall for our Extension priorities survey, we had responses by extension agents who received the notice from someone that we e-mailed on our list. In addition to getting the information to the right people, this “filtering” keeps us from burdening stakeholders with information that does not pertain to them. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? SIPMC will continue to pursue the development of IPM and the expansion of its use in the Southern Region through a mix of coordination, facilitation, and funding. The partnership of three Land grant universities (NCSU, Auburn, UGA) will continue as will other management structures. Directors and key personnel: James VanKirk and Henry Fadamiro will continue as Director and Associate Director, respectively. Joseph LaForest will become a co-PD and his title will change to Associate Director. Management structures and processes will generally remain as described in the original proposal. Advisory Council and Steering Committee: The SC will continue as envisioned in the original proposal and as described in the progress report above. The AC has been delayed until this year. Please see below, section 4.1.C. for details. Stakeholders and partner institutions will continue to be involved as described in the original proposal and as in Year 1 through multi-institutional leadership, IPM Working Groups, the AC and SC, and through our two grants programs. Please see more about IPM Working Groups below in section 4.1.C. Identification of program needs and establishment of priorities will continue to be accomplished much as described in the original proposal and undertaken in year 1. We will continue to require links to stakeholder-identified priorities as a requirement and scoring criterion in our competitive RFAs. We will continue to support development and updating of Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSPs) that include priorities as an essential component. Grants programs. In year 2 we will present both the IPM Enhancement Grants program and the Critical and Emerging Issues Grant program. Strategic Plan. Work on a new Strategic Plan was deferred from year 1 in part due to deferral of Advisory Council. Until now we have used a combination of our previous strategic plan and the grant proposal as guiding documents. The Advisory Council will be engaged in development of new Strategic Plan in conjunction with its first meeting. Objectives and procedures Objective 1: Establish and Maintain Information Networks: The entire SIPMC project can still be accurately described as an “interactive information network that crosses traditional institutional, disciplinary, programmatic and geographic boundaries to address regional IPM priorities.” Key components are very similar to year 1: The Regulatory Information Network: Four important partners will continue to lead the RIN. They will organize responses to regulatory queries from US EPA, USDA-OPMP, state agencies, and others. They will serve as program liaisons with key state and university stakeholders. They will update and produce new Crop Profiles, promising another 12 for the coming year. We will hire a Regulatory Issues Coordinator (tentative title) with funding for this position shared between this and other related projects. Duties will include organization of monthly regional teleconferences; coordination of responses to agency queries; coordination of Crop Profile updates; production of otherwise unplanned Crop Profile updates; and redesign, repopulation and maintenance of our expertise database. Internet communications will continue as planned and as executed in year 1 under the leadership of our Communications Specialist. A major priority in the first 6 months of this project, partly supported by year 1 funds and partly supported by other projects, is to redesign and update our primary website www.sipmc.org. AC, SC and Working Groups: We are even more excited than last year about the prospect of engaging the Advisory Council in a new way – by using teleconferences, webinars, Basecamp projects and similar approaches to broaden the engagement beyond the old model. Our plan is to work toward a more useful sustained engagement of AC members with the Center, its activities, and its functions. We will still hold an annual face-to-face meeting by the end of this year. However we will start with a virtual meeting, held via teleconference and internet, and try to use that first forum as a kick-off to a more effective relationship. We have already funded and otherwise supported several IPM Working Groups including the School IPM WG, Southern Nursery IPM Working Group, eFly SWD WG, and our signature SFWG. We are in process of convening the Pipefitters WG and will soon reach out to potential members of the Southern eXtension Project Leaders WG. The 2014 IPMEP program will include working groups as an accepted proposal function. We will continue to support these and other stakeholder-driven projects as appropriate with our FITT initiative. National and International Networks: We will continue to participate in national and international networks. Objective 2: Build partnerships to address challenges and opportunities SIPMC will continue to nurture and sustain key partnerships in pursuit of better IPM. Specific partnership components will continue to include multi-institutional leadership, AC, SC, Working Groups, and grants programs. Objective 3: Signature Global Food Security Programs In year 2 SIPMC will continue with the Signature Programs outlined in the original proposal and executed in year 1, including: Grants programs: Critical and Emerging Issues Grants: We will continue to provide Critical and Emerging Issues grants using remaining year 1 funds. IPM Enhancement Grants: The IPMEP program will utilize a single call for applications that we hope to release in January 2014 with an application deadline no later than March 1. Project types will be similar to year 1: PMSP; Start-up; Capstone and Working Group. The Regulatory Information Network will be presented in year 2 as described in the original proposal. ipmPIPE projects have decreased in emphasis somewhat as funding for these projects from other sources has diminished. We have initiated efforts to reinvent the earlier Pipefitters workshop as a working group, and will continue this effort through year 2. Facilitation of Innovation Through Technology (FITT): FITT will continue to support and facilitate several IPM working groups. Dr. Fadamiro will continue to lead the Small Farms Working Group and all SIPMC staff will support that group, contingent on the SFWG’s ability to demonstrate progress on important priorities and to formulate feasible plans for future work. Objective 4: Review & evaluate impacts of IPM implementation; Communicate successes Both impact evaluation and communication plans vary from year to year to take advantage of new opportunities, but our purposes and approaches remain consistent from year to year. Impact Evaluation Specialist Doris Sande will work with many of the 16 PDs funded with year 1 IPMEP grants to refine and carry out evaluation plans, several of which we expect will result in important baseline data. She will collaborate with her peers in other Centers on development of evaluation tools and, if funded, on the EIPM evaluation project. We will continue to strengthen and enhance the reporting of funded PDs in our online PPMS system. Communication Specialist Rosemary Hallberg will lead our outreach and communications program as she has done so well for several years. We will use multiple methods including our website, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and our email list serv. In a change from previous plans and practice, SIPMC will develop 2-4 single page fact sheets about SIPMC modeled on the pages recently developed and distributed by WIPMC. Dr. Fadamiro and Ms. Hallberg will once again lead our Friends of Southern IPM awards program. We anticipate using the same award designations as in year 1, and have budgeted for honoraria for one Master’s and one Ph.D. awardee.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: Establish and maintain information networks. Components include: The Regulatory Information Network (RIN) continues to respond to pesticide registration-related queries from EPA and the USDA Office of Pest Management Policy (OPMP) including a concerning a data gap on use of aldicarb on sweet potato; a national survey, currently in process, of malathion use and usage; and a similar survey for malathion, focusing on public health. Monthly conference calls involve stakeholders from USDA OPMP, EPA BEAD, EPA regions 2, 4, and 6, IR-4 and members of the former southern State Contact network. Recent Crop Profile updates include snap beans (FL, TN), cabbage (Florida), watermelons (FL, OK, TX), peanuts (TX) and broccoli (VA). Others currently in process include peanut (MS), peaches (SC), apple, grapes, goats, snap beans, pumpkins and peaches (VA). Advisory Council (AC), Steering Committee (SC) and Working Groups (WGs): We are now recruiting for the AC, will engage routinely through remote, internet-based methods, and plan to hold the first annual meeting in late 2013. The SC has met via teleconference on a near-monthly basis since the start of the project. We support support WGs including: the Southern School IPM WG; eFly, the Southern Spotted Wing Drosophila WG; and the Southern Nursery IPM (SNIPM) WG. We participate in, contributes to and support networks including colla other IPM Centers, the National IPM Coordinating Committee, the Federal IPM Coordinating Committee, the APLU’s BAA Working Group on IPM, and several ipmPIPE projects. Objective 2: Build partnerships to address challenges and opportunities: We have built, continue to build, and maintain partnerships to address challenges and opportunities in many ways including: multi-institutional leadership shared among NCSU, Auburn, and UGA, with funded partners at four other institutions; multistate and multi-institutional AC and SC; support for WGs; two grants programs open to institutions throughout the region; collaboration with other Regional IPM Centers and other multistate, national and international teams including IPM PIPEs, USDA agencies, EPA and others; and support for SERA003-IPM. Objective 3: Signature Global Food Security Programs SIPMC Grants Programs: SIPMC has two formal grants programs, the Critical and Emerging Issues and the IPM Enhancement Grants Program (IPMEP). The 2013 competition of the IPMEP funded a higher number of proposals (16) at a higher total amount ($470,049) than ever funded under previous iterations of the Center. This RFA requested proposals for each of 5 “annual priorities” defined using a regional survey of extension priorities. Along with several other issues, at least one project was funded for each of those priorities Funded projects are listed at http://ipmsouth.com/2013/05/30/ipm_enhancement/ The Critical and Emerging Issues program has been utilized twice: to support the initial meeting of the eFly WG focused on issues associated with the new invasive spotted wing drosophila (SWD) and to support participation of Jim Walgenbach (NCSU) in the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) WG and a national. We anticipate a third use in coming weeks to support publication of proceedings from a national workshop we previously funded, “Southern Region Conference to Assess Needs in IPM to Reduce the Incidence of Tick-Borne Diseases” (Apperson, NCSU). Facilitation of Innovation Through Technology (FITT): This component, under leadership of Assistant Director Joseph LaForest, provides complementary database, communications, and related IT support for working groups and other collaborative efforts supported either by SIPMC or through other means. These include: Watermelon and Cilantro Pesticide Education; Southern School IPM: “The Pest Identification Guide for Pests In and Around Buildings” conversion to app (in progress); online dynamic maps for BMSB; BasecampTM projects for the Small Farms WG, Find-A-Plant and eFly WGs. We host a website for the Megacopta WG (www.kudzubug.org). In the past year, the site has received 8,206 page views from 2,204 unique users in 3,061 visits to the website. The site features both the most current distribution of this new pest but also the ability for citizen scientists to submit a report of kudzu bug to the working group and provide images for validation. The system has managed 212 kudzu bug reports from May 15, 2012 to present, with 205 of those reports in 2013. Small Farms Working Group (SFWG): SFWG was initiated in the fall of 2011 under the previous funding cycle. The working group brings together IPM specialists, practitioners, and extension educators from 1862 and 1890 land-grant institutions, and private consultants who work specifically with smallholder farmers in the 15 states and territories of our region. Activities supported by the current project, funded with year 1 funds, are primarily associated with the 2013 annual workshop scheduled for this August in Florida. Membership comprises at least 43 individuals representing at least 26 institutions and organizations. 4. Objective 4: Review & evaluate impacts of IPM implementation; Communicate success Under leadership of our Evaluation Specialist (ES) Dr. Doris Sande, we continue to use evaluation mechanisms developed over previous funding cycles to identify and document project impacts. These efforts include work with previous project PDs to update our projects reporting database (http://projects.ipmcenters.org/Southern/public/SearchProjects.cfm); standardized project reporting templates; a series of impact/success stories based on projects previously funded by SIPMC, the S-RIPM program and other sources. presented on our success story page http://www.sripmc.org/successstory/; collaborattion with ESs from WIPMC and NEIPMC to present two training sessions to Regional IPM Center staffs on social network analysis and social capital; collaboration on a project communicating Public Value of Extension with VA Tech; participation in WIPMC Adoption Dynamics and Impact Assessment Team; participation on two recent proposals to the EIPM RFA to address small farms and evaluation of EIPM’s reporting archive; and production of “A Survey of Pesticide Use on Peanuts in North Carolina”. Communicate Success: Friends of Southern IPM Award: We communicate success of IPM approaches and projects in many ways including those mentioned under Objective 1 part B and part A of this objective. This year’s winners were: Bright Idea: Jack Bacheler (NCSU) and the Cotton IPM Working Group; IPM Implementer: Dan Lisenko, School IPM Coordinator, Manatee Co, FL; IPM Educator: Tim Reed, Extension Specialist, Auburn University; Future Leader: Steve Frank, Extension Entomologist, NCSU; Pulling Together: Alabama IPM Communicator, Auburn University and others; Lifetime Achievement: Harold Coble, USDA ARS; Jacob Price, Graduate Student award (Ph.D.), Texas Tech; Saundra Wheeler, Graduate Student award, (MS) Florida A&M; Venues to present awards, where we were able to share information about IPM and SIPMC, included: Southeastern Branch of the ESA annual meeting; Association of Research Directors of 1890 Universities Symposium; Manatee County School Board meeting; Southern Division of the American Phytopathological Society annual meeting (meets next February); Press releases were sent from the winner’s university for the following winners: Saundra Wheeler, Jacob Price, Jack Bacheler and Dan Lisenko. Dan Lisenko’s award presentation was videotaped and will have further reach among the stakeholders in the Manatee school district. Stories either about or by each recipient are posted in http://ipmsouth.com. Objective 5: Manage funding resources effectively: We have used standard protocols for handling the SIPMC competitive grants program currently described in the original proposals.
Publications
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Websites
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2013
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Southern Region IPM Center. http://www.sripmc.org
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Websites
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2013
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IPM in the South: A publication of the Southern Region. http://ipmsouth.com/
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Websites
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2013
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Southern Region IPM News. http://ipmsouthnews.com/
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Conference Papers and Presentations
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Published
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2013
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Apperson, C.S. and W.L. Nicholson (eds.). 2013. Proceedings of a regional workshop to assess research and outreach needs in integrated pest management to reduce the incidence of tick-borne diseases in the southern United States. Tom Harkins Global Communication Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. January 21-23, 2009. (available online at: www.sripmc.org/tickworkshop/)
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