Tennessee Pest Management Information Network

Welcome to the TENNESSEE PEST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION NETWORK

Extension Priorities

• Educational programs developed for good ag. practices for food safety.
• Sudden Oak Death, more descriptive symptomology materials for agent training
• Proper placement of seed treatments (field crops and vegetables)
• Development of additional fact sheets that are easily accessible
• On-farm demonstrations / field days for proper calibration of spray equipment
• Education programs for nursery growers for insect and weed control
• Programs for Ambrosia beetle identification and controls in peach orchards
• Identification and management of Dectes stem borer in soybeans
• Glyphosate resistance / grower / agent, visual survey participation
• Chili thrips, inform agents/growers they may be on their way into TN
• Organic pest control evaluations/demonstrations
• Educational programs for control of Plum Pox in the event it occurs

Research Priorities

• Develop quick field test for SOD (Phytophthora ramorum). Designed to be rapid, simple, and inexpensive.
• Development and refinement of economic injury level (EIL) for common crop pests.
• Insecticide resistance management
• Develop best management practices for nursery production
• Review pesticide application techniques
• Landscape level prediction of pest population dynamics
• Insecticide seed treatments for cucurbits
• Insecticide efficacy testing
• Selective control of Johnsongrass in cool season grasses
• Review Pesticide application techniques

Regulatory Priorities

• Imported Fire Ant (faster registration of newer products, restrict movement of items from infested areas)
• Allow additional products for control of glyphosate resistant weeds.
• Survey for presence and distribution of the potato cyst nematode complex
• Pampasgrass (allow multiple control products)
• Hay / regulate movement from southern states and southern areas of TN

• Educational programs developed for good ag. practices for food safety.
  
• Sudden Oak Death, more descriptive symptomology materials for agent training
  
• Proper placement of seed treatments (field crops and vegetables)
  
• Development of additional fact sheets that are easily accessible
  
• On-farm demonstrations / field days for proper calibration of spray equipment
  
• Educational programs for control of Plum Pox
  
• Education programs for nursery growers for insect and weed control
  
• Update vegetable weed control recommendations and herbicide efficacy ratings
  
• Programs for Ambrosia beetle identification and controls in peach orchards
  
• Identification and management of Dectes stem borer in soybeans
  

• Develop quick field test for SOD (Phytophthora ramorum). Designed to be rapid and simple.
  
• Development and refinement of EIL for common crop pests.
  
• Insecticide resistance management
  
• Develop best management practices for nursery production
  
• Review pseticide application techniques
  
• Landscape level prediction of pest population dynamics
  
• Insecticide seed treatments for cucurbits
  
• Insecticide efficacy testing
  
• Selective control of Johnsongrass in cool season grasses
  
• Review Pesticide application techniques
  

• Imported Fire Ant (faster registration of newer products, restrict movement of items from infested areas)
  
• Allow additional products for control of glyphosate resistant weeds.
  
• Survey for presence and distribution of the corn cyst nematode
  
• Survey for presence and distribution of the potato cyst nematode complex
  
• Pampasgrass (allow multiple control products)
  
• Japanese knot weed / restrict movement
  

• Stress to growers the importance of testing soil pH to improve crop health
  
• Increase On-farm demonstrations and farm visits by statewide and/or area specialists
  
• Demonstrate timing of herbicide applications and their effect on weed control
  
• Evaluation and correct implementation of treatment thresholds for insect pests
  
• Insecticide efficacy comparisons
  
• Demonstrations for proper calibration of spray systems
  
• Demonstrations for beef cattle fly control
  
• Educational programs for nursery growers for insect control
  
• Pest surveys in fruit and vegetable crops
  
• Demonstrate effects of pH on mineral uptake in field crops and forages
  
• Demonstrate timing of fly control applications and their effectiveness in beef cattle production
  

• Fungicide efficacy for downy mildew control in pumpkin
  
• Effects of currently available disease control products
  
• Control of Phytophthora capsici in cucurbits (pumpkins)
  
• Development and refinement of EIL for common crop pests
  
• Resistant varieties for downy and powdery mildews in pumpkin
  
• Test resistance of new varieties
  
• Selective control for Johnsongrass in cool season grasses
  
• Insecticide resistance management
  
• Investigate more cultural practices
  
• Investigate more controls for black shank in tobacco
  

• Pampasgrass control in upper East TN
  
• Streamline Recertification and licensing requirements