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Abstract
Our goal is to advance IPM using appropriate plant protection and alternative management
strategies by bringing our clientele research based IPM techniques, recommendations, and technologies
that best assess and address their needs. The program delivers the knowledge producers need to adopt
IPM tactics in unified and coordinated programs. Our belief and experience are that accomplishing this
goal will result in improved economic benefits to producers, while promoting environmental
stewardship and safeguarding human health. Our critical need is for support of specific IPM extension
projects that develop, produce, and deliver information to advance IPM adoption. The working group
requests include need to maintain personnel to support and deliver IPM demonstrations, production and
dissemination of information for traditional and underserved audiences, travel and supplies to
demonstrate IPM, support for endemic and invasive pest monitoring networks, enhance pest diagnostic
capabilities, and increase IPM education for pesticide applicators. To address the dynamic pest
management needs in Kentucky, our extension IPM program has established four working groups that
focus on needs within three of the IPM EIP Primary Priority emphasis areas: IPM Implementation in
Agronomic Crops and/or Specialty Crops (58.2% of budget), IPM Support of Pest Diagnostic
Facilities (19.1% of budget), and IPM Education for Pesticide Applicators (10.0% of budget). The KY
IPM program also conducts an annual training workshop and stakeholder meeting to develop and refine
IPM priorities for Kentucky. While we do not have explicit programs for IPM for Pollinator Health in
this proposal as this has been integrated into our IPM Implementation for Agronomic and/or Specialty
Crops. The KY IPM Coordinator along with the KY Department of Agriculture organized and developed
the Kentucky Pollinator Protection Plan ratified in 2017 which has become a fixture of our IPM and
Pesticide Safety and Education Programs since 2019. Pollinator protection emerged as an issue between
EIP RFAs and is an excellent example of why we must have an IPM program to provide leadership and
respond to these issues as they arise.
Status | Active |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/24 → 8/31/27 |
Funding
- US Department of Agriculture
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Projects
- 1 Active
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Kentucky Extension IPM Implementation Program: 2024-2027
Bessin, R., Beale, J., Gauthier, N., Legleiter, T., Ritchey, E. & Wise, K.
9/1/24 → 8/31/27
Project: Research project