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Northeastern IPM Monitor

News briefs on Integrated Pest Management
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Northeastern

New England Greenhouse Floriculture Guide (posted 01/31)
Delaware
Massachusetts
UMass Extension's Weed Management for Garden Retailers - March 26 (posted 02/27)
New York
Finger Lakes Grape Growers Conference and Trade Show - March 6-7 (posted 02/20)
Introduction to Vineyard and Winery Establishment – April 8 (posted 02/16)
Pennsylvania

Southern

ARS Research Explains Link between Stink Bug, Cotton Disease (posted 02/06)
Winter Issue of Southern Exposure Available Online (posted 01/30)
Soybean pests to watch for in 2009 (posted 01/27)
Plant Bug Top Damaging Pest (posted 01/23)
Arkansas
Monitoring for Red-banded stink bugs in Arkansas (posted 02/25)
Green bean syndrome continues (posted 01/28)
Georgia
Recent rains may provide too much water for trees (posted 01/14)
UGA’s organic program graduates first students (posted 01/14)
Kentucky
Plant pathologists work toward improved soybean disease resistance (posted 03/04)
Fulcher wins regional award for IPM leadership (posted 02/27)
Hemlock woolly adelgid spreads further west (posted 02/20)
Winter management can decrease insect problems in 2009 (posted 01/09)
Louisiana
Louisiana home to “new” invasive species (posted 02/25)
Red-banded stink bug major soy pest (posted 02/25)
Rice farmers prepare for new season (posted 01/14)
Soybean forum features insect, disease problems (posted 01/14)
Yard care may endanger waterways (posted 01/14)
Mississippi
MS Senate Passes School IPM Bill (posted 02/23)
Careful Land Management Protects Mississippi Watersheds (posted 02/06)
North Carolina
Revealing the Secret Lives of Bees (posted 02/16)
North Carolina officially bans vitex (posted 01/23)
New record-keeping rules OK'd for NC pesticide use (posted 01/14)
Oklahoma
OSU to offer grape management course (posted 01/15)
Texas
Ludwig 'asked for plants with insects,' honored by pest management award (posted 02/17)
Longtime Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologist assumes state role (posted 02/06)
Training on newest insect/mite control methods set for February and March (posted 01/30)
Be wary of Formosan termites during post-hurricane reconstruction, experts say (posted 01/15)
Virginia
School IPM Legislation Moving Through VA General Assembly (posted 02/23)
Rod Youngman receives Alumni Award for Excellence in Extension (posted 01/15)

National

IPM Protocols for Turf on School Properties and Sports Fields from UMass Extension (posted 02/20)
APHIS
ARS
EPA
IR-4
U.S. Congress
Bill in Congress: The Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act (H.R. 669) (posted 02/27)

International

Canada
Job Opportunities

Postdoctoral Scientist, Control of Invasive Aquatic Plants
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (posted 02/27)
Extension Vegetable Specialist
Cornell Cooperative Extension (posted 02/20)
Crop Consultant - Florida, USA
Glades Crop Care (posted 01/27)

Job Opportunities Details Page
Funding Opportunities

Northeastern
Northeastern IPM Center - Vegetable IPM Working Group
Vegetable and Strawberry IPM Educator Exchange Program (posted 06/30)
EPA Region 1
Strategic Agricultural Initiative (SAI) (posted 02/03)
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets
Community Garden Organization Capacity Building Grant Program (posted 02/23)
National
EPA
Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) (posted 12/22)
EPA & NIH
Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (P01) (posted 02/27)
EPA & NIH
Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers: Formative Centers (P20) (posted 02/27)
Organic Farming Research Foundation
OFRF Education and Outreach Grants (posted 02/20)
USDA - CSREES
Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES
Speciality Crops Research Initiative (SCRI) (posted 02/03)
USDA - CSREES
Special Research Grants Program: Pest Management Alternatives Research Program (PMAP) (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
(general program announcement) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants (posted 12/22)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management: Organismal and Population Biology (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
Integrated Solutions for Animal Agriculture (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
Plant Biology: Plant Breeding and Education (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
Arthropod and Nematode Biology and Management: Suborganismal Biology (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
Biology of Weedy and Invasive Species in Agroecosystems (posted 02/27)
USDA - CSREES - AFRI
Rapid Response Food and Agricultural Science for Emergency Issues (posted 02/27)
USDA - NRCS
Conservation Innovation Grants (posted 02/20)
International
Organic Farming Research Foundation
Research Grant Program (posted 12/01)

Funding Opportunities Details Page

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Last updated: March 04, 2009



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