IPM Institute of North America, Inc.

(PESP Supporter since December 1998)

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a method of producing high quality goods and services with a minimum of pesticide and nutrient inputs. IPM benefits producers by reducing input costs and farmer health and safety risks. IPM benefits everyone by minimizing harmful impacts of excessive input use on the environment. Although proven IPM systems are available to deliver these benefits, adoption remains low. A number of regional efforts to market food products identified as IPM grown have increased IPM adoption by farmers, raised the level of IPM practiced by these growers, and raised consumer awareness of IPM and its benefits.

The IPM Institute of North America, Inc. is a new non-profit organization founded in 1998 to maximize the potential of IPM product labeling as a market-driver of IPM adoption. The Institute will extend nationwide the most successful regional IPM food product labeling effort to date, established by Cornell University and Wegmans Food Markets in 1995. The IPM Institute will operate with the support and involvement of Cornell professionals with first-hand experience, and will work closely with other programs (e.g., UMass Extension Partners with Nature, Mothers and Others, The Food Alliance) to reduce duplication of effort and consumer confusion with IPM identification marks.

The IPM Institute will increase IPM adoption nationwide through a new mechanism that will:

Coordinate development of rigorous, science-based, product and region-specific IPM requirements with land grant university IPM specialists, and grower, consumer and environmental groups and others;
License a credible, national IPM Mark to qualifying goods and services;
Train, certify and oversee a national network of independent certifiers who will train growers and verify records; and
Educate consumers about IPM and its benefits.

Member Contacts

Thomas A. Green, President
IPM Institute of North America, Inc.
4510 Regent St
Madison, WI 53705-4963
608-232-1410
608-232-1440 (fax)
ipmworks@ipminstitute.org

Curtis Petzoldt, Assistant Director and Vegetable IPM Coordinator
IPM Institute of North America
c/o New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Box 15 Kennedy Hall
Geneva, NY 14456-4203
315-787-2206
315-787-2360 (fax)
cp13@cornell.edu

EPA Liaison to this Member

Sherry Glick
U.S. EPA/OPP/BPPD
located at: EPA/ORIE
4220 S Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89119-7533
702-784-8276
702-784-8231 (fax)
glick.sherry@epa.gov

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