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Funding Program: Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program

Project Title: Pest Management Strategic Plan for California Prunes

Project Director (PD): Gary Van Sickle [1]

Lead State: CA Lead Organization: California Specialty Crops Council

Undesignated Funding: $8,102

Start Date: Mar-01-2017 End Date: Mar-01-2018

Site/Commodity: Prunes

Area of Emphasis: Planning Document

Summary: Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSPs) are widely recognized as a conduit for communication from growers and other IPM practitioners to regulators and granting agencies. These documents give a realistic view of pest management issues and strategies used in the field and provide a forum to set meaningful research, regulatory and educational priorities. The Plans take a pest-by-pest approach to identifying the current management practices and those under development. There are numerous benefits resulting from completing (or updating) a PMSP. The WIPMC has acknowledged the need for PMSPs to be updated preiodically. Pest issues and concerns have previously been identified as priorities by stakeholder groups in the West and sources of stakeholder-identified priorities include Pest Management Strategic Plans and their updating. The California Specialty Crops Council, formerly California Minor Crops Council, has taken an active leadership role since 2002 to help its member commodity groups to draft and finalize PMSPs. This proposal seeks support to now update the PMSP for prunes. The project will address updating the plan by holding a stakeholder meeting for the commodity and updating the former PMSP. After the meeting the plan will be updated based on the input from the groups including follow-up on any issues not resolved at the meeting. When updated it will then be sent to the stakeholder group for final review, corrections and approval. Once completed the updated Plan will be presented to WIPMC for approval and web publication. Several deliverables in the progress of updating the plan will be evaluated to keep the project on track. Funding requested for this project is $8,102. Objectives: Update the PMSP for prunes

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