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Funding Program:
Enhancement Grants - State Contacts/IPM Documents |
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Project Title:
State Contact Project for Texas |
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Lead State: TX Lead Organization: Texas A&M University |
| Undesignated Funding: $25,000 |
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Start Date: Jul-01-2005 End Date: Jun-30-2006 |
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Summary:
The Agricultural and Environmental Safety (AES) Unit of Texas Cooperative Extension proposes a State Contact Project (SCP) for Texas to serve as the primary contact for information requests related to pest management and pesticides in Texas. Texas has the largest area of cultivated crops and agricultural enterprises in the United States. To manage pests, weeds and diseases, pesticide treatments are applied by more than 100,000 private applicators and more than 25,000 commercial and noncommercial applicators. Stakeholders and other interested parties generate hundreds of requests annually for information on pest management, pesticide regulations, pesticide use, and pesticide storage and disposal. The development and maintenance of a primary contact source to serve stakeholders is necessary to support information requests by agricultural producers, other stakeholders and the citizens of Texas. Specialists in AES combine to offer more than 69 years of experience in dealing with IPM and pesticides. This experience and the maintenance of stakeholder networks across the state allow AES to remain central to IPM and pesticide-related issues in Texas. Stakeholder networks are derived from participation in numerous meetings both statewide and local. AES specialists travel across the state every week delivering educational programs to IPM stakeholders at county and district-based meetings. In the last year, AES personnel participated in no less than 85 of these meetings. By interacting with clientele in person, AES specialists are better able to identify and address IPM concerns of agricultural producers, urban clientele, commodity organizations, and others involved with IPM on a regular basis. This interaction allows AES grass-roots level access to information provided directly by IPM stakeholders. Statewide meetings regularly attended by AES include: Texas Turfgrass Association, Texas Pecan Growers Association Meeting, the Texas Farm Bureau state meeting, Texas Nursery Landscape Association, Texas Cattlemen Association, Texas Structural Pest Control Board, Texas Pest Control Association, and Texas Vegetation Management Association. The AES Unit has also established and maintained a multi-state advisory committee that confers regularly to assess pesticide needs and priorities for minor use and ornamental crops. The Minor Use Pesticide Advisory Committee (MUPAC) is comprised of university research and extension personnel, commodity organization representatives, regulatory personnel, and grower representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. AES has developed and maintained a Texas IPM State Contact web site at http://agenvsafety.tamu.edu/IfM_State _Contact/Texas _IPM State _Contact.htm. This Unit has produced more than twenty IPM documents in the last several years and will continue to provide supervision of current and future Crop Profiles and PMSPs.
Objectives: 1. To serve as Texas' primary contact for information requests and inquiries regarding pesticide use, pest management, and IPM activities. The rapid and accurate response to information requests will be the primary focus of this objective. 2. Maintain and strengthen stakeholder network primarily in Texas, with coordination from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico including IR-4 representatives, PSEP personnel, and state IPM coordinators. 3. To oversee the development and completion of IPM documents, including Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans. 4. Attend and participate at the annual state contact meeting arranged by the Center and report on activities. 5. Maintain the Texas IPM State Contact web site with current links and information on IPM in the Southern Region and Texas. 6. Develop and continue to distribute, as necessary, electronic newsletters and other documents addressing current IPM issues. |
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