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Funding Program:
Enhancement Grants - State Contacts/IPM Documents |
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Project Title:
Virginia Pest Management Information Network – SCP,IPM Documents, IPM Priorities
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Project Director (PD):
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Lead State: VA Lead Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Undesignated Funding: $47,134 |
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Start Date: Jul-01-2006 End Date: Jun-30-2007 |
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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 and pest management strategic plans (PMSP) for important crops grown in Virginia and North Carolina. 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 PMSP’s, 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 three new crop profiles, cooperate with NCSU to conduct a greenhouse tomato PMSP, establish new IPM priorities, and conduct a major revision of its existing crop profile database.
Objectives: State Contact Project Objectives Objective 1: Serve as the primary contact for regulatory questions related to pest management and pesticides for Virginia. Objective 2: Establish and maintain a stakeholder network to develop state priorities. The network will include the IPM Coordinator, PSE Coordinator, IR-4 Liaison, and other appropriate contacts. Maintain a list of network members and share the list with the IPM Center. Objective 3: Oversee the maintenance and development of Virginia crop profiles and pest management strategic plans. Objective 4: Participate in an annual state contact meeting sponsored by the IPM Center. Objective 5: Maintain a project website based on standards set by the Southern Region IPM Center. Objective 6: Maintain a communications system to keep the stakeholder network in close contact with the state contact project, pest management and pesticide regulatory issues, and to share input into crop profiles and pest management strategic plan development. IPM Documents Objectives Objective 1: Maintain and develop crop profiles according to Center standards for Virginia crops that are either listed on the EPA BEAD priorities list, are cross-listed on the EPA (FQPA) “kids crops” list, listed as important crops based on percent of national crop yield data, or are major state crops that will be drastically affected by FQPA. Develop three new crop profiles this year for swine, greens (collard and turnip), and sweet corn. Objective 2: Complete outstanding PMSP’s and crop profiles this coming year and evaluate all existing crop profiles for major revisions to meet the current profile guidelines, which were not in existence when the profiles were written. Conduct a major revision (not routine maintenance as stated in SCP Objective 3, above), which will entail extensive and detailed work to complete. Objective 3: Develop PMSP’s with stakeholders in Virginia and cooperating states. Virginia Tech will continue to work with North Carolina to host and organize PMSP’s for peppers and potato in Virginia and North Carolina. Virginia will collaborate with North Carolina and other appropriate states to develop a greenhouse tomato (fresh market) PMSP. Objective 4: Develop an alternative protocol for PMSP development (which will meet Center standards) that is potentially more efficient and less costly than the present method and will help resolve problems with PMSP development in this and other states. IPM Priorities Objectives Objective 1: Create an up-to-date IPM priority list for Virginia to replace the out-of-date and inaccurate EPA/BEAD priorities list presently in use to direct crop profile and PMSP development. This list will be the benchmark on which to establish future crop profile and PMSP development and to enhance IPM programs in Virginia. |
| Website: Virginia Pest Management Information Program |
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Interim Report: Oct-25-2007 |
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Establish and maintain a stakeholder network (State Contact only, required) Key stakeholders were contacted through major workshops and meetings, the pest management listserv and direct communication. The annual pesticide safety educators workshop was used to give 85 Extension agents an overview of the program and to introduce a survey of IPM priorities for Virginia. We meet quarterly with the Virginia Pesticide Control Board and brief them on Center and program activities and ask for their input. Also routinely present at these meetings are key representatives of the Virginia Agribusiness Council, Virginia Crop Production Association, Virginia Pest Management Association, Virginia Turfgrass Council, Virginia Corn Growers Association, Virginia Nurserymen's Association, VIrginia Horticultural Society, Virginia State University (1890), and the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services - Office of Pesticide Services and Plant, Pest Control. We also met twice in 2006 with the state beekeepers association and state apiarist regarding the creation of a crop profile and organization of a regional PMSP for 2007. We are in continuous communication with other specialists in IPM (including the IPM Coordinator), PSE, IR-4 and Sustainable Agriculture. Grower meetings were conducted with pepper, tomato, and potato growers in 2006-07 to establish priorities in conjunction with PMSP development. These meetings were coordinated through existing meetings and were held in cooperation with Extension agents. |
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Serve as primary contact for federal regulatory inquiries (State Contact only, required) We provided 26 different responses to information requests through the Center including attachment of on letter and a production guide for peanuts. This system is working, although it takes a great deal of prodding to get people to respond. We have taken a more proactive approach to gathering information and establishing stakeholder contacts ahead of the requests by monitoring EPA notification listservs and publishing that information in our pest management website and on our listserv. The listserv goes to key specialists, regulatory stakeholders and Extension agents. We have also established a stakeholder database of key contacts so that we do not lose time when a request arrives seeking out contacts. We have expanded the stakeholder list beyond specialist faculty because we were getting poor responses in the past from these individuals. Adding Extension agents, commodity group contacts and key growers has helped expand our inquiries. In 2006-07 we were able to get direct input into the Center response system from growers by doing this. |
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Expertise List (State Contact only, required) We have built an IPM Stakeholders database and this database is linked to the IPM Center state web site. The database is secured with a password, but is accessible for Center personnel such as Dr. Toth who need access to prove that we have been active in this area. The database goes beyond a list of stakeholders from the 1862 Land Grants. We have growers, regulatory stakeholders, agents, and commodity group contacts on the list by crop or crop grouping. The access point is: "http://www.vtpp.ext.vt.edu:3455/32/admin/viewsignin.html?pageid=11" |
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Coordination and oversight of IPM Documents in the state (State Contact only, required) We maintained 32 crop profiles and five pest management strategic plans on the state contact website. We also developed a web site for Virginia IPM Priorities and IPM stakeholders. The IPM Priorities were developed by surveying Extension agents statewide. We have since gone back and updated this information with a second (followup) survey. The EPA list of priorities is also maintained on the website, but our plans are to use the new priority survey data to set future work. We also linked a series of crop profiles developed by specialists in minor crops to our website. These are not USDA compliant in that they don't have all the elements necessary to fit the crop profile standard, but they are available there if needed. At some future date we plan to use these to convert the information to a compliant crop profile. |
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Web Site (State Contact only, required) The website addresses regional priorities established by the SRIPMC. It is compatible with the regional and national IPMC websites in that we interlink the sites and the data complement each other. We list contact information on all pages of the site. The site is linked to the project description data and available reporting data of the SRIPMC site. The site is 508 compliant as far as we know. For example (among other things) we reviewed the site to make sure all ALT tags were up-to-date and we added a text size option so that the sight could be viewed at three different text sizes. The site links to the SRIPMC, USDA, EPA, and other allied entities including the PSE, IR-4 and IPM program sites in Virginia. The home page displays the SRIPMC graphic and it is linked to the SRIPMC website. The phrase, "the VIrginia component of the Southern IPM Center" appears prominently with this logo. The page states it is supported, in part, with SRIPMC funds. All pages have an update date and a link to the site administrator. |
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Additional Activites (State Contact only, optional) In addition to the state contact website, we maintain a listserv and news feeds on the website to pest management news and other related regulatory and IPM information. We use these services to enhance the state contact functions for gathering and disseminating SRIPMC related information. We also work with Extension agents to incorporate SRIPMC activities and information into their in-service education workshops and communications. We continue to incorporate IR-4 priorities into our state contact activities and SRIPMC activities into our IR-4 activities. In addition, we do the same with PSE programming. This is important to provide a seamless function between these programs. We also are working with local environmentally sensitive regulatory outreach activities to incorporate all of these program services into discussions with local agents and citizens. The SRIPMC has a great deal to offer the public in these situations and our efforts include emphasis to make them aware of the center and its functions/services. Two high profile cases evolved in the past three years to situations where we are now incorporating IPM elements and priority surveys into our outreach in these areas. |
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Annual Meeting (State Contact only, required) Ms. Holly Gatton represented our state contact program and IPM document projects at the Orlando meeting this year. |
IPM Documents Produced (IPM Documents only, required)
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Annual assessment prioritizing Crop Profiles and PMSPs (State Contact only, required) Low Priority (crop profile developed and/or revised within last 3 years):
Medium Priority (crop profile between 3-5 years old):
High Priority (crop profile more than 5 years old):
High Priority (crop profile in progress):
High Priority (crop profile unavailable):
PEST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLANS FOR VIRGINIA CROPS/COMMODITIES
Medium Priority (PMSPs more than 3 years old):
High Priority (PMSPs more than 6 years old):
High Priority (PMSPs currently under development):
High Priority (PMSPs planned):
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Discussion (State Contact and IPM Documents, optional) |
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Document responses to other entities (State Contact only, strongly encouraged) We have responded to a number of requests from our state pesticide regulatory agency regarding soybean rust registrations and need. We also are working with them on a pest management strategic plan for honeybees and with a honeybee working group formed to deal with the crisis with honeybees. The honeybee working group was at the request of our state apiarist. We worked with that group to present the crop profile and announce plans for a PMSP for honeybees. |
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Final Report: |
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Coordination and oversight of IPM Documents in the state (State Contact only, required) We maintained 32 crop profiles and five pest management strategic plans on the state contact website. We also developed a web site for Virginia IPM Priorities and IPM stakeholders. The IPM Priorities were developed by surveying Extension agents statewide. We have since gone back and updated this information with a second (followup) survey. The EPA list of priorities is also maintained on the website, but our plans are to use the new priority survey data to set future work. We also linked a series of crop profiles developed by specialists in minor crops to our website. These are not USDA compliant in that they don't have all the elements necessary to fit the crop profile standard, but they are available there if needed. At some future date we plan to use these to convert the information to a compliant crop profile. |
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Web Site (State Contact only, required) The website addresses regional priorities established by the SRIPMC. It is compatible with the regional and national IPMC websites in that we interlink the sites and the data complement each other. We list contact information on all pages of the site. The site is linked to the project description data and available reporting data of the SRIPMC site. The site is 508 compliant as far as we know. For example (among other things) we reviewed the site to make sure all ALT tags were up-to-date and we added a text size option so that the sight could be viewed at three different text sizes. The site links to the SRIPMC, USDA, EPA, and other allied entities including the PSE, IR-4 and IPM program sites in Virginia. The home page displays the SRIPMC graphic and it is linked to the SRIPMC website. The phrase, "the VIrginia component of the Southern IPM Center" appears prominently with this logo. The page states it is supported, in part, with SRIPMC funds. All pages have an update date and a link to the site administrator. |
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Additional Activites (State Contact only, optional) In addition to the state contact website, we maintain a listserv and news feeds on the website to pest management news and other related regulatory and IPM information. We use these services to enhance the state contact functions for gathering and disseminating SRIPMC related information. We also work with Extension agents to incorporate SRIPMC activities and information into their in-service education workshops and communications. We continue to incorporate IR-4 priorities into our state contact activities and SRIPMC activities into our IR-4 activities. In addition, we do the same with PSE programming. This is important to provide a seamless function between these programs. We also are working with local environmentally sensitive regulatory outreach activities to incorporate all of these program services into discussions with local agents and citizens. The SRIPMC has a great deal to offer the public in these situations and our efforts include emphasis to make them aware of the center and its functions/services. Two high profile cases evolved in the past three years to situations where we are now incorporating IPM elements and priority surveys into our outreach in these areas. |
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Annual Meeting (State Contact only, required) Ms. Holly Gatton represented our state contact program and IPM document projects at the Orlando meeting this year. |
IPM Documents Produced (IPM Documents only, required)
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Annual assessment prioritizing Crop Profiles and PMSPs (State Contact only, required) Low Priority (crop profile developed and/or revised within last 3 years):
Medium Priority (crop profile between 3-5 years old):
High Priority (crop profile more than 5 years old):
High Priority (crop profile in progress):
High Priority (crop profile unavailable):
PEST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC PLANS FOR VIRGINIA CROPS/COMMODITIES
Medium Priority (PMSPs more than 3 years old):
High Priority (PMSPs more than 6 years old):
High Priority (PMSPs currently under development):
High Priority (PMSPs planned):
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Discussion (State Contact and IPM Documents, optional) |
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Document responses to other entities (State Contact only, strongly encouraged) We have responded to a number of requests from our state pesticide regulatory agency regarding soybean rust registrations and need. We also are working with them on a pest management strategic plan for honeybees and with a honeybee working group formed to deal with the crisis with honeybees. The honeybee working group was at the request of our state apiarist. We worked with that group to present the crop profile and announce plans for a PMSP for honeybees. |
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