NE PMC On Target
Internal newsletter of the Northeastern Pest Management Center
vol. 3, no. 2 February 2003
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NE PMC On TargetInternal newsletter of the Northeastern Pest Management Center vol. 3, no. 2 February 2003 |
Northeast
- Delaware:
- Pesticide Briefs 2/07/03 issue available
- Lima PMSP
- Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch:Annual meeting
- New Jersey:
- NJinPAS Update
- Pesticide Applicator Training manuals available online and printed
- New York :
- Dry Bean Meeting to Include Deer Management
- Governor Pataki''s Executive Budget and Cornell
- Swede midge threatens NY vegetable fields
- Tough Trees for Tough Sites: new video
- Pennsylvania:
- New Environment and Ecology Textbook Now Available
- Penn State’s Pest Management Information Available at Retailers
National
- Beyond Pesticides: Toxics in the Age of Globalization
- CDC Report on Exposure to Toxics
- EPA:
- EPA Adopts Aggressive Measures on Herbicide Atrazine
- Comments Sought on Endangered Species Consultation Process for
Pesticides- OPP news items since 1/15/03
- Region I Seeks Nominations for Annual Environmental Merit Awards
- Region II Outreach to Chinese-American community targets illegal pesticides
- Florida: Latest from Pest Alerts web site
- Invasive Weeds Awareness Coalition: National Invasive Weeds Awareness Week (NIWAW IV) from February 24 through February 28, 2003.
- IPM Institute
- 2003 Texas IPM Coordinator Training Course
- New Award Recognizes School IPM
- IR-4 News
- EPA Approved Tolerances Resulting From IR-4 Petitions, Jan. 1-17, 2003
- IR-4 Petitions Submitted to Manufacturer (M), EPA (E), or QA (Q) for Jan. 1-17, 2003
- Methyl Bromide Alternatives Working Group Reviews Promising Data
- Michigan: New Book, Fruit Crop Ecology and Management
- New Federal School IPM bill reintroduced
International
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About the Insider
Pesticide Briefs:The latest issue (2/07/03) of Pesticide Briefs has been posted. Contents include items of national interest as well as these items from "the local scene":
- DE, NJ, MD LIMA BEAN WORKSHOP LISTS PESTICIDE PRIORITIES
- PESTICIDE SAFETY EDUCATION DATES SET FOR 2003.
Lima PMSP: Twenty growers, processors, consultants and applicators drafted the Plan with help from 18 extension and regulatory staff. Seven Critical Priorities were identified:
Regulatory:
- Must keep dimethoate.
- Must keep lannate.
- Shorten the phi for Topsin on white mold.
Research:
- Refine Hyre-Cox predictor for downy mildew ö new races, temperature limits, leaf wetness
- Efficacy and timing for biological fungicide Contans for white mold. Efficacy trials and application procedures for BAS 510 and Serenade for white mold.
- Resistance management strategies for downy mildew fungicides.
- Better morningglory options.
- New efficacy trials for Rhizoctonia pod rot (Brown Bean).
- The draft Plan is currently in review by subject matter specialists.
Susan P. Whitney, Pesticide Coordinator
The 2003 meeting will be held 16-18 March in Harrisburg PA; Harrisburg Hilton and Towers. Joint meeting with Potomac Division of APS. More...
New Jersey Information Network for Pesticides & Alternative Strategies (NJinPAS)
An NJinPAS Peach PMSP Workgroup made final additions to the working draft of the Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) for Peaches in New Jersey. The Workgroup is led by Dr. Peter Shearer, a Specialist in Tree Fruit Entomology for Rutgers Cooperative Extension. On January 28, 2003, Dr. Shearer issued the formal draft PMSP for Work Group review and comment. A final draft will be posted on the NJinPAS Fruit listserv and NJinPAS website for public comment subsequent to the technical review which closes on February 14th.
NJinPAS-funded crop specialists just submitted working drafts of crop profiles for carrots, eggplant, and field corn to technical reviewers. Work is near completion on a draft crop profile for green pepper which will shortly be released for technical review. Final drafts will be posted on the NJinPAS listservs and website for public comment subsequent to the technical reviews.PAT Training Manuals Online and Printed
Rutgers Cooperative Extension Pest Management Office has posted fifteen New Jersey Pesticide Applicator Training manuals for viewing and downloading. See website postings of the manuals listed below in portable document format (pdf). Other manuals will be added and announced periodically.
Hardcopies of all the pesticide applicator manuals are still available for purchase through Rutgers Cooperative Extension county offices. Click here to see a complete listing of our County Extension offices.
Pat Hastings, RCE Pest Management Office
Rutgers IPM
Dry Bean Meeting 3/18 to Include Deer Management
The annual NYS Dry Bean Meeting will be held March 18th at DiPacific’s Restaurant, Farmington, from 9 am until 3:40 pm. Topics will include production guidelines, collaborative efforts on deer management, farm risk management suggestions, and information on markets, as well as the results of industry funded research.
Join us for the NYS Dry Bean Meeting March 18th at DiPacific’s Restaurant, Farmington, at the intersection of Rts. 332 and 96, just south of Thruway Exit 44. Register at the door. Lunch and registration are $15. Pesticide recertification credits and Certified Crop Advisor credits will be available. If you have questions or if you’d like to be a sponsor contact Carol MacNeil at 585-394-3977 ext. 33 or crm6@cornell.edu, or Arlie McFaul at 585-461-1000 ext. 241 or acm29@cornell.edu.
Carol MacNeil, Cornell Cooperative Extension Ontario County
Governor Pataki's Executive Budget and Cornell: Some highlights from the Governor's 2003-2004 Executive Budget -- Several items in the Governor’s Executive Budget, which was released last week, will directly affect Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension. The cuts are as follows:
State support for county Cornell Cooperative Extension associations through County Law 224 is reduced $1 million from $3.8 million to $2.8 million. Lower state support for county associations creates an immediate hardship because these funds are used for core staffing and matching of grant and contract funding. Lower state support would also likely influence county appropriations for Cornell Cooperative Extension.
The State University of New York (SUNY) would be cut $183.5 million in state support (15%) to be replaced with $197 million in tuition dollars derived from a $1,200 increase in tuition. The SUNY cuts directly affect all of the statutory units on campus, including the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Human Ecology, which are our core resource base.
There is a $2.5 billion SUNY Capital appropriation, and each campus is given an allocation. Cornell's allocation would be $88.7 million of the total.
Excerpt from CCE News, online news distributed by Deena Haines
Swede Midge Threatens NY Vegetables
A tiny, voracious fly called the swede midge, which already has eaten its way across eastern Canada's cabbage and broccoli fields, now is threatening to descend on crops in states along the northern U.S. border. See the complete press release by Cornell's Blaine Friedlander, Jr.
Tough Trees for Tough Sites:New resource for Extension Educators
Tough Trees for Tough Sites: a video to aid in tree selection in the urban landscape. This 23-minute video, funded in part by the New York State IPM Program, explains the process of site assessment. It covers the environmental limitations to plant growth that help people determine appropriate plants for a site. Site assessment is explored in the city of Ithaca, New York, in preparation for a tree planting project.
The Urban Horticulture Institute booklet, "Urban Trees: Site Assessment, Plant Selection, and Transplanting" (details online) is a good companion to this video.
Cost of video (VHS format): $20. Please order from Wendy Wirth, waw3@cornell.edu, 607-255-1789, fax: 607-255-9998, Dept. of Horticulture, 134 A Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853.
Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, NYS IPM Program
New Environment and Ecology Textbook Now Available
A new resource designed to help Pennsylvania teachers meet the new Academic Standards for Environment and Ecology is now available.
“Environment and Ecology for Pennsylvania, Meeting the Standards” is aimed at secondary educators to help their students understand the environment, natural resources, and the human impact upon them. The 272-page textbook contains activities, Pennsylvania-specific case studies, and lesson reviews. The textbook also includes chapters on topics ranging from watershed and wetlands and environmental health to threatened and endangered species and integrated pest management. In addition, it can be adapted to meet the needs of other states. From the Jan. 2 press release.Penn State’s Pest Management Information Available at Retailers
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA – How can you use fewer pesticides in the garden and around the home? Consumers can find out while shopping at their local garden centers and chain stores, thanks to a program based out of Penn State Cooperative Extension.
Free fact sheets on Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, and nutrient management from Penn State and other land grant universities is being distributed to county extension offices, county fairs, garden centers and chain retailers, says Steve Bogash, Penn State Cooperative Extension Agent in Franklin County. “ Providing IPM educational materials to consumers where and when they buy plants or other garden materials will result in more informed consumer pest management decisions and decreased pesticide misuse,” says Bogash, who is also the principle investigator of the project. From the December 17 press release
Kristie Auman-Bauer, PA IPM Program
Toxics in the Age of Globalization: Beyond Pesticides will be hosting the 21st National Pesticide Forum, Toxics in the Age of Globalization, Friday, April 25th through Sunday, April 27th at the University of Texas at Austin. The Forum will focus on adopting alternatives to protect our children and communities from the toxic hazards of pesticides, as well as the challenges the pesticide reform movement faces in a world run by multinational corporations. Register online. more
National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals:
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued its National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (PDF). (To view the summary report,(pdf) CLICK HERE).
The report provides biomonitoring data on American's exposure to 116 common chemicals, including metals, PCBs, and some pesticides. The CDC report only measures the presence of residual quantities of chemicals, but does not attempt to link the presence of these compounds to any adverse health effects, which is appropriate since the presence of trace levels of chemicals is not necessarily harmful.
October 8 Listening Session Transcript Available Online: CSREES held a highly successful listening session on Tuesday, October 8, 2002, in Kansas City, MO, to obtain stakeholder input on existing CSREES family, consumer, human development, housing, and nutrition research, extension, and education programs. A report is available online.
from Plant Sciences Update
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS Program
Atrazine: EPA ADOPTS AGGRESSIVE MEASURES ON HERBICIDE ATRAZINE
Approach Ensures Protection of Nation's Most Vulnerable Drinking Water Sources
EPA announced today an innovative and aggressive program to protect vulnerable community drinking water systems from contamination by atrazine, an herbicide used widely in the U.S. on a variety of crops and nonagricultural uses. The program announced by the Agency involves intensive, targeted monitoring of raw water entering certain community water systems in areas of atrazine use. Under conditions spelled out in the document, when atrazine is detected in water above Agency safety standards the use will be prohibited in that specific watershed area. These and other measures are contained in EPA's "Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision" (IRED), the result of several years of concentrated analysis of the best and most recently available scientific studies.
from an EPA Press Release Jan. 31, 2003
Comments Sought on Endangered Species Consultation Process for
PesticidesAction: To comply with the Endangered Species Act (ESA), EPA necessarily has to work with the other agencies as a counterpart. This specifically includes the Department of the Interior and Department of Commerce. So, EPA has published a notice requesting public input on ways that such counterpart regulations could improve the ESA consultation process with respect to pesticide registrations. Comments on this advanced notice of proposed rulemaking are due on or before March 10, 2003. The press release below outlines the advanced notice.
Notice: [Federal Register: January 24, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 16)][Proposed Rules][Page 3785-3795]. For further information: See the EPA docket OPP-2002-0311 on this Notice . See also prior NJinPAS posting (PDF) on EPA's Field Implementation Plan. For general background on the issues, see EPA's ESPP website and Fish & Wildlife's summaries at one page and another.Pat Hastings, NJinPas and
Audrey E. Moore, USEPA Region 2 Regional Ag Policy SpecialistOffice of Pesticide Programs Update What's New on the OPP Web Page Jan. 15 - Feb. 7, 2003:
- February 6, 2003
- Three new members appointed to the FIFRA SAP - OPP Update
- Pesticide safety education materials available - OPP Update
- January 31, 2003: EPA adopts aggressive measures on herbicide atrazine - Press Announcement and Q's & A's
- January 29, 2003
- Pesticide safety education materials available - OPP Update
- Pesticide web site adopts agency template; reorganizes as a topic-based site - OPP Update
- January 27, 2003: Tolerance revocations announced for oxadiazon - OPP Update
- January 24, 2003: Government seeks to improve the endangered species consultation process for pesticides - Press Announcement
- January 22, 2003
- FY 2003 Environmental Education Grant Program - OPP Update
- Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Grant Program - OPP Update
- January 15, 2003
- EPA issues final rule amending accelerated phaseout of methyl bromide - OPP Update
- EPA and U.S. Customs Service sign agreement to share information on hazardous waste, chemical, pesticide imports - Press Announcement
Region I Seeks Nominations for Annual Environmental Merit Awards
The US Environmental Protection Agency's New England office is seeking nominations for its 2003 Environmental Merit Awards, which recognize environmental achievement by individuals, businesses, organizations and state and local governments in the six-state region. The awards are designed to recognize accomplishments over the past year. Awards are also being given for the first time this year under a lifetime achievement category.
Region II Outreach to Chinese-American community targets illegal pesticides
topU.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Jane M. Kenny today announced a new EPA public outreach campaign aimed at informing Chinese-Americans of the dangers of illegal pesticides. Ms. Kenny was joined by several leaders of the Chinese-American community at the Chung Pak Building in Chinatown, New York City, including: Hong Lee, Executive Director of the Chinatown YMCA; David Cheng, Executive Director of the Chinese American Planning Council; Karen Liu, Executive Director of the Chinese American Planning Council Day Care Program; and Dr. Eric Poon, Chief of Pediatrics at NYU Downtown Hospital . EPA is focusing on the Chinese-American communities of New York and New Jersey because they are among the most at risk for poisonings from highly toxic illegal pesticides.
Recent items on the Florida Pest Alert Site
- 02/05/03 - Florida Department of Health Summary on Arboviruses - January 28 - February 3, 2003 - Arbovirus Summary Archives
- 02/4/03 - Division of Plant Industry Web site on Pink Hibiscus Mealybug, Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) - Featured Creatures File on Pink Hibiscus Mealybug
- 02/03/03 - National Biological Information Infrastructure Web Site on West Nile Virus
- 02/03/03 - Southwest Florida Vegetable Pest and Disease Hotline for January 31, 2003.
- 01/31/03 - Soybean Rust Could Adversely Affect US Production
- 01/30/03 - New Featured Creatures - Striped Blister Beetle
- 01/29/03 - New Featured Creatures - Cuban Subterranean Termite
- 01/28/03 - USDA Releases Disease-Resistant "Freedom" Soybean
- 01/23/03 - International Conference on Sod-based Cropping Systems
- 01/16/03 - New Bio-security Lab to Protect Florida's Food Supply Being Built
- 01/16/03 - Beneficial Fungi Increase Pepper Yield - Reduce Need for Fertilizers and Pesticides
Tom Fasulo, et. al., University of Florida
National Invasive Weeds Awareness Week: The Invasive Weeds Awareness Coalition (IWAC) invites you to participate in a week-long series of events and activities held in Washington, D.C. during the fourth annual National Invasive Weeds Awareness Week (NIWAW IV) from February 24 through February 28, 2003. Get all the details online. (WARNING: be ready for unsolicited pop-up windows when you click - at least I got 'em. jvk)
Bill Hoffman, USDA/CSREES PAS Program
2003 Texas IPM Coordinator Training Course
Feb. 3, 2003: All IPM Coordinators within the state of Texas must attend a six hour class in order to fulfill the requirements specified in Section 595.11 of the Texas Structural Pest Control Act. However, the class is open to all persons who are interested in learning more about the School IPM law and the role of the IPM Coordinator. The course will also offer an Advanced Coordinator training open to anyone wanting to learn how to effectively implement and maintain their IPM program. Part of the planned training experience will be a section on Outdoor (Landscape) IPM for school grounds, conducting a facility inspection in order to maintain a list of structural and landscape improvements and much more.
New Award Recognizes School IPM
Jan. 20, 2003: Public school districts in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico implementing integrated pest management (IPM) programs to control insects and weeds are encouraged to apply for an award recognizing their IPM efforts. The Southwest Technical Resources Center for IPM in Schools and Childcare Facilities (SWTRC) announces the first IPM PrideTM Award competition. The goal of the recognition program is to instill a sense of pride by schools in their IPM programs. Cash awards of $1,000 and $500 will be given to schools with outstanding IPM programs in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
Tom Green, et. al., IPM Institute
News items on the IR-4 web page
- EPA Approved Tolerances Resulting From IR-4 Petitions, Jan. 1-17, 2003
- IR-4 Petitions Submitted to Manufacturer (M), EPA (E), or QA (Q) for Jan. 1-17, 2003
- Methyl Bromide Alternatives Working Group Reviews Promising Data
Michigan State University Extension has published a new book for fruit growers that responds to the increasing number of regulatory and environmental restraints on fruit production systems. To help fruit growers and consultants transition to more sustainable practices, MSU specialists collaborated with them to produce this publication explaining how ecology works within fruit production systems. The book explores how those who want a biologically intensive fruit production system must look at their farm as an ecosystem where organisms form an integrated web that allows farms to function. With knowledge of these interactions, growers can effectively modify their own production system.
To enhance its appeal for its audience, Fruit Crop Ecology and Management was written and designed to explain ecological principles within a farming context using colorful photos and illustrations along with practical examples. Sample pages and content description can viewed at the MSU IPM Program website: http://www.msue.msu.edu/ipm/Pubs_eco.htm
Fruit Crop Ecology and Management is a collaboration of 20 authors from ten disciplines, and over 25 reviewers from several states and the Netherlands. The teamsí expertise included agricultural economics, agricultural journalism, agricultural meteorology, entomology, farming, horticulture, integrated pest management, nematology, sociology, sustainable agriculture, and plant pathology. Growers, crop consultants, and food processors helped select the content and served as authors and reviewers along with faculty and Extension agents. The book includes information for tree fruit and small fruit grown in the Great Lakes states with principles that can be extended beyond that region.
The soft-bound 104-page book sells for $16 ($19.20 international orders) and can be ordered at:
http://www.msue.msu.edu/ipm/EcoForm.htmJoy Neumann Landis, Michigan State University IPM
It appears that the Federal School IPM Legislation has been raised again and this time introduced as House Bill HR 121 on January 7, 2003, and referred to House Committee. Please see below for the announcement which was provided in the latest NASDA newsletter, as well as a summary taken from the Record.
Access the complete version of this new bill go to the web site and search on HR 121.
H.R.121
Sponsor: Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] (introduced 1/7/2003) Latest Major Action: 1/7/2003 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Title: To amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require local educational agencies and schools to implement integrated pest management systems to minimize the use of pesticides in schools and to provide parents, guardians, and employees with notice of the use of pesticides in schools, and for other purposes.Submitted by Donald Baumgartner, US EPA to SCHOOLBUGS-L@LISTS.UFL.EDU
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