Integrated Pest Management in the North Central States - Examples

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North Central Region Strives for Increased IPM Adoption

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The National IPM Program is a partnership between federal and state agencies in the development and implementation of integrated pest management. The program is administered by a national IPM committee with representatives from the USDA and administrative advisors from the four IPM regions in the United States. Priorities and guidelines for administering funds for IPM development are established in each region.

The North Central IPM Region includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. This region's IPM advisory committee, comprised of one representative from each state, is designated NCS-3, and is titled IPM Research for Selected Production Systems in the North Central Region. Each year, the committee identifies IPM research priorities, recommends guidelines for competitive grants, and proposes a program to be approved by the North Central Directors for Agriculture Experiment Station. Upon approval, the committee then solicits research proposals from scientists in the region and oversees a peer review panel that selects proposals for funding. The level of funding in recent years has been about $750,000. The current NCS-3 program emphasizes preventive pest management for horticultural crops, turf, agronomic crops, pasture, and urban landscape.

These pages adapted from North Central Region Extension Publication NCR 586. To order a printed copy, see our ordering information page. http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/ncr/