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Funding Program:
IPM Enhancement Grants |
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Project Title:
Southeast Regional Pest Management Guide for Nursery Crops and Landscape Plantings |
Project Directors (PDs):
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Lead State: NC Lead Organization: North Carolina State University |
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Cooperating State(s):
Georgia, South Carolina |
| Undesignated Funding: $38,521 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2016 End Date: Feb-28-2017 |
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Pests Involved: Weeds, arthropods, diseases |
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Site/Commodity: Nursery crops and Landscape plantings |
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Area of Emphasis: Weed Science, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Horticulture |
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Summary:
The Green Industries of nursery and greenhouse crop production, landscape services and related sales have a significant economic impact. The green industries direct industry economic output has been estimated to be over $136 billion, representing 0.72% of U.S. gross domestic product and 1.11% of total workforce employment. Pest management in ornamental cropping systems continues to result in costly pest control treatments and crop losses. A recent survey of ornamental crop producers in the Southeast has highlighted the need for enhanced access to pest control information. Many individual states produce crop protection guides such as the NC Agricultural Chemicals Manual, yet many states in the region lack staffing to produce such guides. Recently, regional guides for horticultural crops important in the southeastern US have been produced; including Southeast Regional Guides for pest management in Blueberries, Brambles, Bunch Grapes, Muscadine Grapes and Strawberry. These regional crop management guides consolidate relevant information into a more useful format and garner the power of collaboration among regional specialists to improve the content and broaden the impact of their efforts.
In this project we propose to develop a regional pest management guide focused on ornamental nursery crop production and landscape management. The guide will consolidate information on IPM practices and pest control product recommendations for arthropod pests, diseases and weeds. To accomplish these goals participants in the Southern Nursery IPM (SNIPM) Working Group will serve as section leads to coordinate input from crop and pest management professionals in the region. A working group meeting will be scheduled to integrate content from various state publications, develop formatting guidelines, write and edit content. A part-time Extension Associate will manage group communications, editing and formatting, and publicize the availability of this new resource to Horticultural Crop Extension Specialists, county agents, and growers in the region. The first edition of this publication will be available by February 1 2017, as an on-line, print ready pdf document. The document will be updated annually. Responsibility for coordinating the updates for each section will rotate among the authors for each section. Overall editors for the first edition will be Drs. JC Chong (Clemson Univ.), J. Williams-Woodward (U. of GA) and J C. Neal (NC State Univ.). Editors for subsequent editions will be elected from SNIPM members and document authors. Individual states who wish to include the content in statewide pest control publications (such as the NC Agricultural Chemicals Manual) will be able to do so. Objectives: In the current project, we propose to develop a Southeast Regional Guide for Pest Management in Ornamental Crop Production and Maintenance. The guide will consolidate information on IPM practices and pest control product recommendations for arthropod pests, diseases and weeds into one comprehensive, up-to-date reference. |
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Outputs Published the 2017 Southeastern US Pest Control Guide for Nursery Crops and Landscape Plantings. Citation: Chong, J.C., J.C Neal, J. Williams-Woodward. (eds.). 2017 Southeastern US Pest Control Guide for Nursery Crops and Landscape Plantings (205 pages). on-line at : https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/southeastern-us-pest-control-guide-for-nursery-crops-and-landscape-plantings Print available: https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469639000/2017-southeastern-u-s-pest-control-guide-for-nursery-crops-and-landscape-plantings/ The publication was advertised via on-line blog postings by the authors and Southern IPM such as: https://ipmsouth.com/2017/03/30/just-released-and-free-southeastern-pest-control-guide-for-nursery-and-landscape-plants-available/ After production of the digital copy, funding was obtained from NC Cooperative Extension to print copies for all Horticulture agents in NC. It is hoped that other agencies will do likewise in the future. Print copies are available for purchase from UNC Press https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469639000/2017-southeastern-u-s-pest-control-guide-for-nursery-crops-and-landscape-plantings/ or Amazon.com: |
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Outcomes The first and most tangible outcome of this project is the production of the 2017 Pest Control Guide for Nursery Crops and Landscape Plantings. On-line advertisements were posted on March 27th. In the following 2 days over 500 page views were documented. Between March 1 and April 17, 2017 there were over 2500 page views, 2200 were unique page views. Google analytics will be used to monitor access. Publisher reports will be available to document the number of print copies sold and regional distribution. Outcomes are specific changes that resulted from the activities, publications and products listed under ‘Outputs’. They are the effects of those outputs on the target audience, on the environment, and on the world in general. |
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