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Funding Program:
IPM Partnership Grants |
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Project Title:
Increasing IPM Adoption in Potatoes |
Project Directors (PDs):
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Lead State: ME Lead Organization: Maine Potato Board |
| Undesignated Funding: $15,000 |
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Start Date: May-01-2010 End Date: Apr-30-2011 |
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Pests Involved: Colorado potato beetles, potato late blight |
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Site/Commodity: potatoes |
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Area of Emphasis: evaluation |
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Summary:
The potato industry in the US and Canada has a long history of promoting the latest Integrated Pest Management (IPM) innovations and best practices. In 1997 the National Potato Council (NPC) initiated a industry-wide survey to measure adoption of IPM practices that reduce the risks to the environment of pesticide use while maintaining or increasing overall productivity. In 2008, the National Potato Council committed to updating its initial survey as part of its member strategy for the US EPA Pesticide Environmental Steward Program. Over the last eight months, a broad collaboration of producers, processors and buyers including NPC, Canadian Horticultural Council, McDonalds, Simplot, McCain, Lamb Weston and individual potato growers have been working to develop a survey tool that can be used by the majority of growers to evaluate the use and adoption over time of IPM and other best management practices. Here we are requesting funding to operationalize the survey and reporting components so that participating potato growers will be able to complete the survey online, and the potato industry will be able to generate IPM adoption statistics by state, region, intended market and overall, including contributing to the national effort to measure and evaluate IPM impacts. The industry has committed significant cash and in-kind resources (Approximately $37,500 by Jan 13, 2010) to develop the survey and will continue to do so as it tests the survey over the next three months, and then conducts outreach to ensure participation once the on-line survey is operational. During the first year of operation it is expected that a minimum of 350,000 acres (of 1,000,000 USA acres) will be reported on the site.
Objectives: 1. Finalize a comprehensive survey instrument which catalogs user's IPM practices. 2. Convert the survey to function online. 3. Conduct outreach to potato growers, processers and buyers to increase awareness of the program, its benefits and its long-term goals. 4. Secure the participation of at least 33% of target growers within the first six months after the survey is placed on-line, including those supplying McDonald's and McCain Foods and members of the National Potato Council. 5. Develop survey components to ensure its crop adaptability. Proposal |
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