Do IPM Centers Fit in AFRI?Should they?

The Situation

IPM Centers, a component of 406, is not in the proposed USDA budget

USDA employees are constrained to support the President’s proposal

AFRI 2010 is no home for IPM Centers

Remaining discussion: should IPM centers and other 406 IPM programs be integrated into AFRI ?

Are IPM Centers a Good Investment?

What is the return on investment?

Is IPM itself a good investment?

Moving IPM funds without also moving programs would represent a significant shift by USDA away from support for IPM

So, let’s look at the value

Focus only on Regional IPM Centers

not on the entire 406 IPM suite

not the other 406 programs

by no means a comprehensive list

We often don’t do IPM.

We help everyone do it better

Stakeholder engagement

Priority setting

Funding recommendations – panels, etc.

Part of the problem solving team

PMSPs, Working Groups, Advisory & Stakeholder Boards, Steering

Committees

Regulatory information for EPA

FQPA “round 1”

EPA: “It’s coming around again”

inquiries from EPA (and others)

Crop Profiles and PMSPs

Regionality

Our individual “calling cards”

NC: Tribal issues; Pest Alerts

NE: Community, small diverse agriculture

S: Manage large programs; IT

W: Water quality; Grower organizations

Support Other Dept’s & Agencies

HUD : training in PHAs

Tribal collaborations: Summit, School, Community Gardening, Pesticide Risk Reduction

Water Quality Conferences and Projects

National Clean Plant Network

NRCS: Cost sharing programs, IPM practices, CEAP questions and analysis

CDC: Tick workshop

Leveraging

WIPMC: $2 for $1 return ($11 million) on their projects

NEIPMC: $1,850,773 from ARS, NRCS, CSREES, RMA, EPA, HUD

NCIPMC: EPA Interagency Fund $51,000

SRIPMC: ipmPIPE > $10 million

Quick response to urgent needs

Asian soybean rust readiness training

Methyl bromide – training, country ham

Slug issues in Mid-Atlantic

Pink Hibiscus Mealybug

Northeastern wireworm project

Fill the gaps

Stink bug ID guide

Tick ID work – with an app!

Refining Asian soybean rust monitoring

Upper Manhattan community IPM education (bedbugs)

Coordination, strategic planning

Carrot IPM – Dr. Hausbeck

NEIPMC: apple disease IPM group

School IPM work groups

Outreach

Press releases, newsletters, etc.

Pest Alerts – printed and online

Friends of Southern IPM Awards

Sudden Oak Death Webinar

Impact Evaluation

National IPM Evaluation Work Group

Regional Work Groups (NC, NE)

Support for logic model work (Coli, et al)

Evaluation of NASS chem use date (NC)

Pest Alerts

Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)

Brown Dog Tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus)

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (Halyomorpha halys)

Chili Thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood)

Cycad Aulacaspis Scale (Aulacaspis yasumatsui)

Lobate Lac Scale (Paratachardina lobata)

Multicolored Asian Ladybeetle (Harmonia axyridis)

Pink Hibiscus Mealybug (Maconellicoccus hirsutus)

Plum Pox Virus

Pest Alerts

Ralstonia solanacerum

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Soybean Aphid (Aphis glycines)

Soybean Rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi; Phakopsora meibomiae)

Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum)

Tospoviruses (Bunyaviridae: Tospovirus)

West Nile Virus (Flavivirus)

Western Bean Cutworm (Striacosta albicosta Smith)

Wood Boring Insects

Management of Large Programs

Let Scientists do Science (instead of accounting)

ipmPIPE (RMA)

onion ipmPIPE (SCRI)

potential new PIPE(s) through AFRI

Mid-Term Review 2006

Do IPM Centers meet original (8) goals and objectives?

7 ¾ out of 8

good; quite true; done; without a doubt; a good beginning; very good; successful; impressive and creative