TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiential nursery integrated pest management workshop series to enhance grower practice adoption
AU - Lebude, Anthony
AU - Fulcher, Amy
AU - Dubois, Jean Jacque
AU - Braman, S. Kris
AU - Chappell, Matthew
AU - Chong, J. H.J.C.
AU - Derr, Jeffrey
AU - Gauthier, Nicole
AU - Hale, Frank
AU - Klingeman, William
AU - Knox, Gary
AU - Neal, Joseph
AU - Windham, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, American Society for Horticultural Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - Three, 2-day hands-on experiential learning workshops were presented in three southeastern United States cities in June 2014, by the Southern Nursery Integrated Pest Management (SNIPM) working group. Attendees were provided 4 hours of instruction including hands-on demonstrations in horticultural management, arthropods, plant diseases, and weeds. Participants completed initial surveys for gains in knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as their intentions to adopt various integrated pest management (IPM) practices after the workshop. After 3 years, participants were again surveyed to determine practice adoption. Respondents changed their IPM practice behavior because of attending the workshops. Those returning the survey set aside more time to scout deliberately for pests, plant diseases, and weeds; used a standardized sampling plan when scouting; and adopted more sanitation practices to prevent plant disease. Fewer horticultural management practices were adopted than respondents originally intended. Future emphasis should be placed on using monitoring techniques to estimate pest emergence, for example, traps and pheromone lures, as well as plant phenology and record keeping. However, more work is needed to highlight both the immediate and longterm economic benefits of IPM practice adoption in southeastern U.S. nursery production.
AB - Three, 2-day hands-on experiential learning workshops were presented in three southeastern United States cities in June 2014, by the Southern Nursery Integrated Pest Management (SNIPM) working group. Attendees were provided 4 hours of instruction including hands-on demonstrations in horticultural management, arthropods, plant diseases, and weeds. Participants completed initial surveys for gains in knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as their intentions to adopt various integrated pest management (IPM) practices after the workshop. After 3 years, participants were again surveyed to determine practice adoption. Respondents changed their IPM practice behavior because of attending the workshops. Those returning the survey set aside more time to scout deliberately for pests, plant diseases, and weeds; used a standardized sampling plan when scouting; and adopted more sanitation practices to prevent plant disease. Fewer horticultural management practices were adopted than respondents originally intended. Future emphasis should be placed on using monitoring techniques to estimate pest emergence, for example, traps and pheromone lures, as well as plant phenology and record keeping. However, more work is needed to highlight both the immediate and longterm economic benefits of IPM practice adoption in southeastern U.S. nursery production.
KW - Container-grown
KW - Monitoring
KW - Ornamentals-producers
KW - Retention
KW - Scouting
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U2 - 10.21273/HORTTECH03765-17
DO - 10.21273/HORTTECH03765-17
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039706108
SN - 1063-0198
VL - 27
SP - 772
EP - 781
JO - HortTechnology
JF - HortTechnology
IS - 6
ER -