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Funding Program: Enhancement Grants - State Contacts/IPM Documents

Project Title: Virginia Pest Management Information Network - State Contact Project (SCP) and IPM Documents

Project Director (PD): Michael J. Weaver [1]

Lead State: VA Lead Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Undesignated Funding: $25,000

Start Date: Mar-01-2008 End Date: Feb-28-2009

Summary: Since the inception of the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) there has been an increased national emphasis to maintain viable pest management strategies for economically important crops. FQPA has affected the availability of many existing pest management tools, especially pesticides. This has potentially disrupted the ability of growers to implement effective integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, to manage pest resistance, and to compete in the world market. USDA has funded four regional integrated pest management centers to work with the States to focus on enhancing economic benefits, protecting human health, and preserving natural resources. This includes the preservation of viable IPM strategies. Virginia Tech is working with the Southern Region IPM Center, North Carolina State University (NCSU), and important agricultural stakeholders to create a series of crop pest management profiles, IPM Elements, and pest management strategic plans (PMSP) for important crops grown in Virginia, North Carolina and cooperating states in the Northeast and Southern regions. These documents communicate crop/pest/pest management concerns that may occur as a result of the potential impact of FQPA and the associated needs of stakeholders. Virginia Tech will support the Center through its IPM programs and as a resource center to stakeholders. Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs will serve as the state contact project for Virginia. This will involve serving as the primary contact for regulatory questions related to pest management and pesticides, establishing and maintaining a stakeholder network to develop state IPM priorities, providing oversight of Virginia crop profiles and PMSPÇs, providing personnel to attend an annual state contact meeting, and maintain a project web site to share pertinent IPM and regulatory information and resources with stakeholders. Virginia Tech will also develop (two) IPM Elements (Christmas trees and honeybees), refine its databases of IPM priorities and stakeholders, develop a Christmas tree crop profile, update its Christmas tree PMSP, and continue the revision of its existing crop profile database. Objectives: Objective 1: Develop crop profiles according to Center standards for Virginia crops that are either listed on the EPA BEAD priorities list, cross-listed on the EPA (FQPA) kids crops list, listed as important crops based on percent of national crop yield data, are major state crops that will be drastically affected by FQPA, or are listed on the Virginia IPM Priorities list (developed in 2006-07). Virginia will complete a crop profile for Xmas trees. Objective 2: Continue to complete outstanding PMSPs and crop profiles this year and evaluate existing profiles for major revision to meet the current guidelines, which did not exist when the profiles were written. Continue a process of major revision (not routine maintenance as stated in SCP Objective 3, above), which will entail extensive and detailed work to complete. Objective 3: Develop PMSPs with stakeholders in Virginia and cooperating states. Virginia Tech will work with NCSU to complete PMSPs for pepper, potato in Virginia and North Carolina. Virginia will work with North Carolina and the Mid- Atlantic states to complete PMSPs for honeybees and turf. Virginia will update the Xmas tree PMSP with TN and NC. Objective 4: Continue to refine an alternative protocol for PMSP development (which will meet Center standards) that in 2006/07 was shown to be more efficient and less costly than the previous method and will help resolve problems with PMSP development in this and other states. Objective 5: Maintain and refine the IPM priority list for Virginia to supplement the out-of-date EPA/BEAD priorities list that was the primary tool used to direct crop profile and PMSP development. We built an IPM Priorities website from stakeholder surveys over the past two years and will continue to refine and expand the priorities database to include other stakeholder input on which to establish future crop profile, Element, and PMSP development and to enhance IPM programs in Virginia. Objective 6: Develop IPM Elements with stakeholders in Virginia and cooperating states. Virginia Tech will work with NCSU to complete IPM Elements for Xmas trees and honeybees.

Final Report:

Impacts See report under "IPM Enhancement Grants 2008 Part 1 - State Contacts"

Outcomes See report under "IPM Enhancement Grants 2008 Part 1 - State Contacts"

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