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Integrated Pest Management Coordination and Support Program (EIPM-CS)
Sandra Sardanelli is the PI. Funding for 2009 is $145,000. Maryland is a heavily urbanized, densely populated, agriculturally diverse state with an environmentally sensitive Chesapeake Bay interface lending itself to an equally diverse array of pest management considerations. University of Maryland IPM Programs and projects are created and directed by Maryland Cooperative Extension and Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station faculty and staff. Representing the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Life Sciences, our extension and research faculty and staff daily network with the public and private sector to reinforce and extend the adoption of IPM approaches.
Field crops (corn, soybean, small grains, and forages) account for 15% of the agricultural revenue in Maryland. The value of the 1,454,000 acres (71% of the total farm acreage) planted in 2007 is estimated at $502 million (NASS 2007). Moreover, nearly $850 million (65% of total revenue) of livestock, poultry, and their products in Maryland indirectly benefit from feed grain and forage produced from field crops. Given the close proximity of the field crop acreage to urban settings and the Chesapeake Bay, there is a clear need to reduce potential human health risks and adverse environmental effects from pests and related pest management practices.
In MD, the green industry is the 2nd largest commodity with an estimated value of over $1 billion (USDA MASS 2004) indicating their economic and environmental importance. Many conventional nursery and greenhouse practices result in detrimental effects to the managed ecosystem and potentially to the environment as a whole, resulting in increased pest outbreaks and costs to growers. To address this situation, the MD Extension IPM team members have conducted research on the development, effectiveness, and implementation of alternative pest management practices. Moreover, surveys show we have influenced grower practices and increased grower adoption of IPM practices by concomitantly informing our stakeholders on these topics (Greenhouse Pest Alert Survey 2006-07, 2008; Nursery / Landscape Pest Alert Survey 2006, 2007). This positive movement has resulted through our teams’ continual efforts with seminars, educational materials, training workshops, electronic outreach, field demonstration, publications in refereed and trade journals, books, bulletins, fact sheets, and regular contact with our growers and trained IPM scouts.
The FY 2009 Extension Integrated Pest Management Coordination and Support Program (EIPM-CS) contains two components, the EIPM-CS Coordination Program and the EIPM-CS Support Program. Both programs are funded through competitive funding. When a state’s submitted proposal is successfully funded, these grants support state and local contributions in advancing the goals of the National Roadmap for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) by addressing priority needs associated with the coordination, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of Extension IPM programs.
Maryland was successful in obtaining $145,000 for 2009. These funds will help agricultural producers and other pest managers adopt alternative pest management practices through training, demonstration, and evaluation of methods and strategies. All EIPM-CS efforts in 2009 are intended to contribute to the achievement of National IPM goals through the demonstration and evaluation of IPM practices in production agriculture and other settings.
For more information, contact Sandra Sardanelli
Last updated: 04/8/2009
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