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Funding Program: IPM Partnership Grants

Project Title: Stored Grain IPM: Practical Information and Experience for On-Farm Storage Practitioners

Project Directors (PDs): J. Keith Waldron [1] Michael J. Stanyard [2]

Lead State: NY Lead Organization: Cornell University

Undesignated Funding: $7,798

Start Date: Apr-01-2009 End Date: Mar-31-2010

Pests Involved: insects, molds, vertebrates

Site/Commodity: grains, corn, wheat, soybeans

Area of Emphasis: storage

Summary: A train the trainer workshop will be organized and presented to introduce Stored Grain IPM principles to educators and practitioners with on-farm commodity storage clientele. A combination of lecture, laboratory, and an on-farm site visit opportunities will be offered. Cornell resources or other local expertise will collaborate with additional input from other stored grain specialists invited to participate via distance teaching technology (polycom). A post-program evaluation is planned. Objectives: 1. Provide train-the-trainer educational opportunity to enhance use, knowledge, understanding and application of IPM principles and practices to on-farm stored grain. 2. Improve dissemination of stored grain IPM principles and practices through grower education by workshop participants. Proposal

Final Report:

Impacts All participants completed a post workshop questionnaire to evaluate the usefulness and potential impact of the workshop. Based on the results of this survey, it is believed that these efforts have helped improve IPM knowledge and skills of cooperative extension, certified crop advisor (CCA) and agriculture industry personnel relative to stored grain protection, improved the network of professionals with interest and responsibilities in stored grain protection, will result in enhanced outreach and timely application of stored grain IPM information and techniques to producers with on-farm grain storage, will help improve the average quality of grain supplied to local grain mills and brokers as the result of improved on-farm grain storage. It is hoped that the workshop has helped enhance communication between field crop producers, cooperative extension and other agricultural industry personnel resulting in improvements to the amount and quality of stored grain IPM information and efforts in the northeast region. See the appendices included in the full report for more information. Field crop producers stand to benefit through enhanced farm profitability associated with harvested grain commodities through a reduction of potential pest induced losses and protection of crop value. Businesses using stored products stand to benefit from access to a high grade pest free off farm product, maintenance of a pest free commodity stream, protection of overall grain flow quality, and reduced costs associated with pest induced losses, grain sanitation, and pest control inputs. Consumers ultimately stand to benefit from availability of quality product at reasonable cost. Safeguarding human health and the environment New IPM practices that could be adopted: SLAM (Sanitation, Loading, Aeration and Monitoring). Our workshop presented stored grain IPM using "SLAM" an approach originally developed in the Midwest. "SLAM" provides an action guideline to frame integrated activities that help minimize or avoid stored grain pest problems including insects, molds & mycotoxins and vertebrates. These tactics are very straightforward emphasizing cultural practices such as sanitation, and temperature and moisture management. These practices can be applied to a variety of grain storage systems and are relatively easy to implement. A number of extension publications are available that use the "SLAM" approach to orient producers to their use and reinforce the IPM concepts. These factors enhance the potential adoption of these IPM practices by grain producers. Reduced pesticide risk? The IPM approach to stored grain management seeks to use preventative measures including a variety of cultural techniques such as pre-bin fill sanitation, temperature management and outside bin weed management to reduce risk of pest infestations thus minimizing need for pesticide intervention. Where possible, Preventative pesticide applications, such as residual insecticide bin treatments, may reduce need for potential rescue treatments such as fumigation. Economic Benefits: USDA estimates suggest that producers may loose as much as 10% of the grain crop from the time of harvest until the grain is fed or processed. IPM approach to stored grain management will help protect the commodity from this potential loss. Implementation of IPM: See above comments regarding "SLAM"

Outcomes The workshop provided an excellent opportunity to bring together extension educators and agribusiness professionals for discussion and training in stored grain issues and pest management. Eighteen Cooperative Extension Educators and agribusiness professionals representing NY, PA, MA, OH and MI participated in the On-Farm Stored Grain IPM Workshop. The workshop organizers obtained a much better understanding of stored grain IPM and the resources available for use, education and distribution to clientele. In addition to the workshop, the project director's have given additional extension presentations on Stored Grain IPM including two presentations in the Advanced Training session of the Northeast Certified Crop Advisor training held in Waterloo NY, December 2009 and various extension and industry sponsored grower meetings.

Report Appendices Final Report 2010 [PDF]

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