Moving the IPM Roadmap Forward Update on IPM Evaluation Activities

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Moving the IPM Roadmap Forward Update on IPM
Evaluation Activities

• W. Coli, UMass Amherst
• C. Pilcher, Iowa State

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Evaluation Update

• Accomplishments
• Individual Studies
• Subcommittee Meeting
• Regional Coordinator Meetings
• Web Site
• Future Plans

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Projects are in different stages of completion

• Ongoing
• Winding down
• Proposed

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ONGOING ACTIVITIES

• National IPM Evaluation Group (NIPMEG) C.
  Pilcher, W. Coli, L. Herbst. B. VanTil, P.
  Perrault, A. Sorenson, W. Hoffman, et al.
• National Scale IPM Success Stories W. Hoffman,
  L. Myers, L. Thomas, C. Pilcher, W. Coli, A
  Szylvian, S. Hopkins, F. Moore, R. Langton
• Integration of IPM Guidelines for Fruit and
  Vegetable Crops with NRCS Conservation Practices
  - C. Hollingsworth (MA), R. Hazzard (MA), R.
  Casagrande (RI), H. Faubert (RI),W. Coli (MA),K.
  Murray (ME)
• Evaluation of the Cotton Incorporated State
  Support Program (SSP) in the Southeastern U.S.A.
  W. Coli (MA), William Miller (MA) and Jennifer
  Curtis (NC) (C.I., Inc. funded)
• Eco-Apple Protocol and Grower Self Assessment
  Red Tomato (MA), IPM Institute (WI), UMass,
  Cornell Univ., Numerous New England and New York
  Growers. (multiple funding sources)

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National IPM Evaluation Group (NIPMEG)

• Meetings and conference calls
• IPM Coordinator meetings
• Logic Model refinement
• Web site development
• Success story publication

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Logic Model refinement

• Expert reviews for each IPM model
• Revised IPM models (13)
• Use to develop outcome level indicators
• See handout example for natural resource
  environments

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Web Site

• Purpose is to provide basic information on
  program evaluation
• Specific IPM evaluations
• http//www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/evaluation/

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Web Site
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National Scale IPM Success Stories

• Starting with apples
• Additional stories to focus on Almond, Wine
  grapes, Sweet corn
• Possibly others (e.g., Cotton, DOD and GSA)

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Ongoing Activities

• Integration of IPM Guidelines for Fruit and
  Vegetable Crops with NRCS Conservation Practices

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Evaluation of the Cotton Incorporated State
Support Program (SSP) in the Southeastern U.S.A.

• Crop production and pest management Guideline
  developed and reviewed
• Large scale Dillman survey completed and
  summarized
• Currently working to link practice adoption to CI
  SSP program mission statement (improving U.S.
  cotton grower profitability)

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Selected Survey ResultsNot For Publication at
This Time

• Overwhelming majority of cotton growers have
  begun using some form of conservation tillage
  (CT) within the last 10 years
• Many studies relate CT to improved profitability
  and positive environmental impacts
• 64 of responding growers say it increased
  profitability

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Selected Survey ResultsNot For Publication at
This Time

• Over 83 of respondents use RR varieties
• 30 use RR Flex
• 66.8 say GMO cotton has improved profitability
• Several economic studies (although not all) show
  the same

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Selected Survey ResultsNot For Publication at
This Time

• 89.5 plant Bt cotton
• 67 say it has improved profitability
• 91 say it has decreased their overall
  insecticide use
• 65 say it has decreased OP use
• 80 say it has decreased pyrethroid use
• 42 report using one or more new insecticide
  chemistries (e.g., Tracer )

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Eco-Apple Protocol and Grower Self Assessment

• Dramatic growth in sales of certified fruit over
  3 years with positive economic benefits
• 12 participating orchards this year, including
  sites in NY and PA
• Growers modified 07 protocol to add phosmet to
  red label list
• Participant use of NY Track Apple software will
  allow comparison both to pre-program pesticide
  use and to use by non-participating growers

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Activities Winding Down

• Integrated and Sustainable Wine Grape Production
  in Southern New England W.Coli, S. Schloemann,
  H. Sandler, A. Tuttle, and D. Cooley et al.
  (NESARE-funded)
• Measuring Apple Worker/IPM Scout Pesticide
  Exposure in Standard and Reduced-risk IPM
  Systems. W. Coli, J.M. Clark, R. Putnam (NEIPMC
  funded)

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Planned New Activities

• Proposed Northeastern IPM Center IPM Evaluation
  Working Group C. Petzoldt, W. Coli, et al.