scholarly journals Integrated Pest Management on the Web and on CD-ROM: Two University of California Projects for Helping Farmers and Gardeners Solve Pest Problems

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 983a-983
Author(s):  
Mary L. Flint ◽  
Joyce F. Strand
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
State University ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
Management Consultants

Over the past decade, the University of California Statewide IPM Project has been extending pest management information electronically to farmers, pest management consultants, landscapers, and home gardeners. During this session we will demonstrate the Project's web site (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu) and a CD-ROM developed to assist horticulture advisors, Master Gardeners, retail nursery personnel, and others who help gardeners manage pest problems. We will discuss considerations in using these programs for extending information, keeping the programs up-to-date, and integrating them into educational programs. The CD-ROM covers 40 vegetables and tree fruits, allowing users to specify visual symptoms, describe a situation, or look at color photos, video images, or line drawings to help identify the problem. Twenty-five to 35 different pests are included for each crop, with thousands of photo images. An ornamentals module will be added in 1998. Once the problem is identified, the system provides screens to confirm pest identity, learn about biology and damage, and choose management practices. For instance, users can view several common natural enemies for a pest, look up the relative toxicity of pesticides, or get details on how to prune to avoid stressing a tree. Choices focus on methods to reduce pesticide use. The program is being developed with cooperators at Oregon State University and Washington State University, and with guidance of end users. The UC IPM web site includes information on biology and management of hundreds of insect, pathogen, weed, and nematode pests on 35 crops and in landscapes and gardens with thousands of color photos linked through hypertext. Other databases on the site include weather databases, pesticide use data, and phenology databases for pests.

NIPF Use of Landowner Assistance and Education Programs in Washington State

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith A. Blatner ◽  
David M. Baumgartner ◽  
Lanny R. Quackenbush
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Washington State ◽  
State University ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Cost Share ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forestry Programs

Abstract A 1988 mail survey to evaluate use and effectiveness of Washington NIPF assistance/education programs resulted in a 69% response or 910 useable questionnaires. In total, 47% of the respondents had received assistance/education from Washington State DNR (17.4%), SCS (15.4%), ASCS Cost-Share (15.5%), Washington State University Cooperative Extension (29.3%) and private forestry consultants (12%). Usefulness of assistance/education received was rated good/excellent by 79.3% to 90.5% of the respondents. Owners also commonly received assistance/education from more than one source, reflecting the fact that NIPF forestry programs tend to work as a system, with each part serving a different function. Respondents receiving assistance or information had larger forested holdings, a somewhat higher level of education and tended to live on or near their forested holdings. A much larger percentage of respondents having received assistance/education indicated they had completed one or more management practices in the past 10 years. West. J. Appl. For. 6(4):90-94.

Assessment of Pesticide Use by Commercial Landscape Maintenance and Lawn Care Firms in Georgia

1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kristine Braman ◽  
Ronald D. Oetting ◽  
Wojciech Florkowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Treatment Decisions ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Beneficial Arthropods ◽  
Thiophanate Methyl ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Commercial Landscape

Questionnaires on pesticide use and pest management practices were mailed to landscape maintenance/lawn care firms in the metro-Atlanta area; 25.4% or 350 firms responded. Of these firms, 159 provide pest management services for turfgrass or ornamentals or both. Responding professionals purchased 13,210 kg AI of insecticides, 93,447 kg AI herbicide, and 3,867 kg AI of fungicides during 1993. Total area serviced by these firms was 14,770 ha. The most commonly-purchased insecticides included products containing hydramethylnon, acephate, chlorpyrifos, carbaryl, and horticultural oil. Frequently-purchased herbicides included products that contain pendimethalin, 2,4-D, glyphosate, MCPP, dicamba, oryzalin, benefin, and oxadiazon. Fungicidal products purchased by the most respondents were chlorothalonil, thiophanate-methyl, oxazoladinadione, matalayl, and triadimefon. Insecticides were most frequently applied to ornamentals (65%), while herbicides were the primary pesticide used on turf (93% preemergence, 79% postemergence). Fungicides were more evenly distributed. Prescheduled applications determined timing of application for 32% of respondents, while 46% report that monitoring of pest populations influences treatment decisions. Only 8% of respondents incorporate monitoring of beneficial arthropods into this decision-making process.

scholarly journals Restricting Pesticide Use: The Impact on Profitability by Farm Size

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Whittaker ◽  
Biing-Hwan Lin ◽  
Utpal Vasavada
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Corn Belt ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Lake States ◽  
Large Farms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Grain Farms

AbstractA sample of 226 cash grain farms in the Lake States-Corn Belt region are analyzed to estimate the impact of restricting pesticide use on profits. These 226 farms are classified into small, medium, and large farms according to their sale revenues. The results suggest the existence of pest management practices that could substantially reduce pesticide use without incurring economic losses. The reductions in profits associated with gradual reductions in pesticide expenditure appear to increase with farm size.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Pesticide Use Determinants Among Smallholder Farmers From Costa Rica and Uganda

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 117863022097241
Author(s):  
Philipp Staudacher ◽  
Samuel Fuhrimann ◽  
Andrea Farnham ◽  
Ana M Mora ◽  
Aggrey Atuhaire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Robust Regression ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Farming System ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Organic Farmers ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Pesticides are used globally in agriculture and pose a threat to the health of farmers, communities, and the environment. Smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries have generally a low socio-economic status and educational level. Consequently, they are particularly vulnerable to negative impacts of pesticides on their health, yields, or land. In a Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices study, we compared the pest management practices between a market-oriented farming system in Zarcero County, Costa Rica, and a subsistence-based farming system in Wakiso District, Uganda. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among smallholder farmers from Costa Rica (n = 300) in 2016 and from Uganda (n = 302) in 2017. We enrolled conventional and organic farmers, but also farmers with mixed practices and non-applicators of any pest management strategy. We found that the majority of pesticides used in both case studies are classified as highly hazardous by the World Health Organization. While more than 90% of smallholder farmers from both countries were aware of the negative health effects of pesticide exposure, <11% in Costa Rica and <2% in Uganda reported using personal protective equipment every time they handled or applied pesticides. Hygiene and other safe use practices were not adopted by all farmers (<61%), especially among farmers applying more hazardous pesticides. Conventional farmers from Costa Rica (14%) and Uganda (19%) reported disposing pesticide residuals into rivers. Using a logistic regression we found that organic farmers were more likely to having been trained on safe pesticide use practices. Using a robust regression, we observed that smallholder household income was primarily driven by education and not directly by the use of synthetic pesticides. Our results suggest that negative effects of pesticides can be managed over the whole life cycle, from purchase, via storage and application to residual and waste management by fostering professionalization of farmers. We advise future safe use and handling interventions to consider the pesticide use-related socioeconomic and demographic findings highlighted in this paper.

EFFECTS OF PESTICIDE USE ON SPIDERS (ARANEAE) IN QUEBEC APPLE ORCHARDS

1984 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noubar J. Bostanian ◽  
Charles D. Dondale ◽  
Michael R. Binns ◽  
Donat Pitre
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Apple Orchards ◽  
Insecticide Application ◽  
Scab Control ◽  
Web Building

AbstractIn Quebec commercial apple orchards, spider populations are shown to have been depressed numerically by current pest management practices. Hunting species appeared to be more sensitive to insecticides than web-building species. There were large differences in spider distribution among orchards and years, although some consistent patterns were observed. Specimens from the following families were captured: Theridiidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Araneidae, Erigonidae, Clubionidae, Tetragnathidae, Dictynidae, Salticidae, Philodromidae, and Thomisidae. In orchards treated only for scab control or with only a single insecticide application for apple maggot control, spiders attained their maximal numbers in August. With two treatments for apple maggot control, spiders attained their maximal numbers towards the end of September.

Building Capacity of the Public Health Education Workforce Through Partnerships

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Mark Tomita
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
State University ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
The Public ◽  
Prevention Services ◽  
The Usa

The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project reaffirmed the value of professional associations partnering with academic institutions to build capacity of the USA public health education workforce to meet the challenges of primary prevention services. The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) partnered with the California State University, Chico to produce a CD-ROM that would advocate for global populations that are affected by health disparities while providing primary resources for public health educators to use in programming and professional development. The CD-ROM development process is discussed

Building Capacity of the Public Health Education Workforce Through Partnerships: The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Mark Tomita
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
State University ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Prevention Services ◽  
The Usa

The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project reaffirmed the value of professional associations partnering with academic institutions to build capacity of the USA public health education workforce to meet the challenges of primary prevention services. The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) partnered with the California State University, Chico to produce a CD-ROM that would advocate for global populations that are affected by health disparities while providing primary resources for public health educators to use in programming and professional development. The CD-ROM development process is discussed.

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