2007 Program Priorities for Kentucky
Priorities were collected through the year from producers, consultants, ag-industry, and research and extension agents and specialists. The general format was small group discussions at already established meetings e.g. Winter Wheat Workshop, Annual IPM Scout School, and UK-IPM working group annual planning sessions. A teleconference was held on October, 6 2006 and it was suggested to keep the 2006 priorities listed below as well as adding these additional priorities.
Priority Item, (crop if identified), source of priority.
- Early warning for outbreak insects, (wheat & corn), producers & consultants.
- Place of seed applied systemic insecticides (corn, wheat, soybean) producers & consultants.
- Management of Dectes stemborer, aka soybean stem borer, (soybean), producers.
- Management of white gurbs. (Corn), producers.
- Distribution of critical and short term information via cell phone, e.g soybean
rust, soybean aphid, outbreak pests, (soybean) producers – very strong
recommendation by growers. They prefer to access critical info via cell
phone because it is always with them. They do not have to return to a
location to access a computer, and because many KY farms have only dialup
computer service which is very slow.
2006 Program Priorities for Kentucky
In October of 2005, a stakeholder meeting was held in Kentucky to
determine the needs of Kentucky's agriculture system. Information
was obtained from attendees and is posted below for public viewing.
- Explore crop rotations with grain sorghum
- Explore markets for grain sorghum
- Establish pest management principles in grain sorghum production
- Investigate insect, weed and/or disease pressures in fields with varying plant densities
- Investigate possible cotton production in lower western counties of Kentucky
- Improvement in production of high quality hay
- If crop profiles and pmsps are to be developed; soybean crop / pest profiles and Soybean Pest Management Strategic Plans should first priority.
Tennessee has assisted the SRIPMC by connecting a diverse array of people who have an interest in pest management policy and implementation throughout the US. These include pest management users (farmers, nurserymen, park and turf managers, building superintendents, pest control operators, homeowners, gardeners, and others), consumer and environmental groups, governmental regulatory agencies, researchers, and educators. Communications channels will be effective only if all parties can consistently access the same reliable information. Research-based information is essential to our ability to make sound pest management decisions in any context, from a backyard garden to national regulatory offices. Tennessee is working with the support of PMCs and USDA, by contributing to building a comprehensive database that eventually will hold all kinds of scientifically tested pest management information. This database will be available on the World Wide Web for use by everyone.
Funding for the national network of Pest Management Centers was authorized by Section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998.
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