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Funding Program: IPM Partnership Grants

Project Title: Development of Northeast Regional Interactive Tree Fruit IPM Guidelines

Project Director (PD): Harvey Reissig [1]

Lead State: NY Lead Organization: Cornell University

Undesignated Funding: $15,000

Start Date: Apr-01-2006 End Date: Mar-31-2007

Site/Commodity: tree fruit, apples

Summary: In 2005, a decision was made to cease production of the New England Apple Pest Management Guide due to constraints in staff and financial resources at the land-grant universities in the New England states. At that point, tree fruit producers and consultants in New England did not have a pest management guide specific to their region. In many cases, growers and consultants were using the Cornell Tree Fruit Guidelines as a substitute; a guideline tailored to New York growing conditions. Cornell has been using an electronic system to produce many of the Cornell Pest Management Guidelines for several years. This system was adapted for use by the New England tree fruit specialists to produce their own tree fruit pest management guide once again based on the Cornell Tree Fruit Guidelines. The Cornell Tree Fruit Guidelines were converted into easily editable electronic files and revised by New York tree fruit specialists. These revised files were then made available to the New England tree fruit specialists for revision to reflect New England growing conditions. The revised files were then used by the Pesticide Management Education Program (PMEP) at Cornell (producers of the Cornell Guidelines) to compile a complete New England Tree-Fruit Pest Management Guide. PMEP printed copies of the New England Guide and distributed them to each New England state for redistribution to their growers and consultants. Electronic versions of the New England Guide were made available to those states wishing to use them as part of their Extension program's web site. Objectives: 1. To index, organize and digitize the content of the current tree fruit guidelines in a form that is consistent with the production of other guidelines at Cornell U. so that it can be searched, printed, used on the web, or distributed on CDs. 2. To invite the community of experts and stakeholders throughout New England to help design the structure of a regional Tree Fruit Pest Management Guideline publication based on local needs and information. 3. To create an open digital format with appropriate metadata to enhance the development of future Pest Management Guidelines for tree fruits that will more fully integrate IPM decision making tactics and pesticide information. 4. To develop a collaborative web site to solicit input from regional stakeholders. Proposal Final Report

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