In this Issue:
VEGETABLE NEWS
Vegetable Insect Summary for Minnesota - 2006: European corn borer and Corn earworm
GRAPE NEWS
Wine Grape Insect Summary for Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin - 2006: Beetles & Moths
STRAWBERRY NEWS
Fall Colors, Plant Health and Weed Control
APPLE NEWS
The USDA Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey for Exotic Apple Pests in Minnesota
IPM PUBLICATION
New IPM Publication Series for Growers, Processors, Crop Consultants, & Extension Educators
| Vol 3 No. 12 | September 29, 2006 |
New IPM Publication Series for Growers, Processors, Crop Consultants, & Extension Educators
Bill Hutchison, Dept. of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, 55108
Is IPM Too Risky?
A New IPM Series sets out to answer this question by applying key economic and decision-making principles to Integrated Pest Management (IPM), as a Concept and Practice, and by illustrating the risk management benefits of IPM using 3 case studies. IPM: A Risk Management Framework to Improve Decision-Making, introduces an economic risk management perspective to IPM, including the need to better understand the Risk Perceptions and Attitudes of IPM Audiences (e.g., growers, crop consultants), and methods for measuring risk. These publications, with specific research-based examples (currently for 3 high-value horticultural crops), should be useful for Communicating the Value of IPM to individual growers and processors, and/or as an educational tool at grower meetings.
Publication:
"IPM: A Risk Management Framework to Improve Decision-Making" (2006).
Publication # 08229, University of Minnesota Extension Service, St. Paul , MN .
The series presently includes 3 two-page, color fact sheets (case studies), subtitled: "IPM and the bottom line," including:
- Fresh-market Cabbage: Increasing Economic Returns While Reducing Risk
- Sweet Corn: Value and Risk of IPM for European corn borer
- Wine Grapes in the Midwest: Reducing the Risk of the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
There are several ways to view and/or order the publications. Free, single copies of each of the 2-page fact sheets are available to download (PDF format) at the Minnesota Extension Service Web site (below). Additional packets of the 2-page fact sheets (25 each; for $18.75 U.S. ) can also be ordered for grower/consultant meetings; these packets also include one copy of the Risk Management Framework publication.
A "web-sampler" of each publication, and all related information is available at the Minnesota Extension Service web site: http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG8229.html. You can also order this publication by calling the Minnesota Extension Service Distribution Center at;
(612)-624-4900 or (800)-876-8636.
The series was produced in cooperation with Applied Economists at the University of Minnesota (Dr. Terry Hurley) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dr. Paul Mitchell). Each publication includes several color photographs and figures to illustrate key points about economic returns as well as economic risks involved with IPM and conventional systems. Extension Educators and IPM Coordinators should find these useful for educational meetings in their respective states. This new series was funded by the USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA) and the Minnesota IPM Program (USDA-CSREES), and developed in cooperation with the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Assoc., the Midwest Food Processors Assoc., the MDA IPM Program, the University of Minnesota Extension Service, and the NC Regional IPM Center (USDA-CSREES).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison (hutch002@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Management and Development Division, and Suzanne Wold-Burkness (woldx018@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
The Newsletter is published weekly from May through August, cooperatively, by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the University of Minnesota (U of MN). Reports are posted on the U of MN and MDA web sites on Fridays. If you have suggestions and/or comments, please send your contributions by 4 p.m., Wednesday to Jean Ciborowski, 651-201-6217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us, MDA, 625 Robert St. North, St. Paul, MN 55155-2538. You can access the Newsletter at the U of MN web site in htm format at: www.vegedge.umn.edu/MNFruit&VegNews/mnindex.htm and at the MDA web site in pdf format at: http://www.mda.state.mn.us/ipm/ipmnews/
Partial funding for this publication is provided through partnership agreements with the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (MFVGA) and the United States Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency (RMA). These institutions are equal opportunity providers.
DISCLAIMER
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