Grants and Contracts Details
Description
We propose to establish a Center for the collection, analysis and communication of data
describing pest management tactics and their interrelationships for the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. The Center will serve as both the structure and the mechanism to collect data
on the activity of endemic and invasive pests and beneficials, crop production and pest
management practices, and pesticide use and application patterns in a scientifically
defensible manner.
Through the center, we will establish standard procedures for gathering information to
measure changing trends in pest problems to; measure probable impacts of the pest, to
evaluate management tactics and to develop and modify IPM systems, as necessary, to
provide appropriate pest management strategies. The Center will become an integral
function of the combined efforts of Kentucky's Integrated Pest Management, Pesticide
Safety and Education, and Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey, programs. In addition
the IRA, Pesticides Coordinator and the Plant Disease, Insect and Weed Identification
and Diagnostic laboratories will both aid and benefit form this centralized effort.
However, the Center will have specific duties concerning pest management tactics and
wilI be overseen and review by an independent board of stakeholders.
The data collected will be used to develop update existing Crop Profiles, develop Crop
Profiles for new and possible alternative crops, to support the construction of Pest
Management Strategic Plans and to help define Kentucky's relationship to various agroecosystems.
All products of the Center will be web-based and accessible via the IPM, PSE and CAPS
WebPages. Information gained from the program activities will be available as
documents and databases. Reports of the Annual Survey, specific questions under
research, Crop Profiles, PMSP's and other appropriate items will be placed on the
website in PDF format. Databases of interpreted data, that is data that have been
reviewed by a subject matter specialist and subjected to "default standards" will be made
available to download in a common delimited format. The use of a website wilI make the
Centers products available to all who desire them. Interested parties without access to the
web will be able to gain "hard copy" or "diskette" electronic copy from any County
Extension office or any other location that has access to the web.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 5/1/02 → 7/1/05 |
Funding
- University of Florida: $152,923.00
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