On Target
- IPM News
April 2007
View the current news as a web page (updated frequently)
Links to items posted
since the last email edition:
Northeastern Region
* Dairy Fly Management - IPM
Teleconference - May 3
* Green-Blue Summit: Clean Water
Through Residential IPM
* NY Farms! Event Calendar of
Agricultural Events in the Northeast
Maine
* Organic Orchard Workshop
Series, May 12
Maryland
* Maryland Invasive Species
Council News
New York
* Turf Love Program (CCE Putnam
Co.)
* Forest
/ Eastern Tent Caterpillar Workshop, April 11
* Alfred
State College Launches New Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture
* Organic Dairy Workshops:
Managing For Success
* CCE Community Horticulture
E-Newsletter - March 14
Pennsylvania
* Getting Rid of Household Ants
North Central Region
Illinois
* IPM Education for Retail Store
Employees
Iowa
* Notes
from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - April
* Notes
from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture - March
Michigan
* New Michigan State IPM
Scouting Field Guides for Landscape and Nursery
National
* Call for Concepts for New PIPE
Components
* Promoting Competition in
Agricultural Research (Inside Higher Ed)
Alert: Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
* Mid-Atlantic Apiculture
Research and Extension Consortium Home Page
* MAAREC: Colony Collapse
Disorder FAQ (March 8)
* MAAREC:
Tentative Recommendations for Hives Experiencing CCD (March 9)
APHIS
* Genes Foil Hessian Flies'
Feeding on Wheat
* USDA
Amends Sudden Oak Death Regulations
* USDA
Confirms Light Brown Apple Moth in California
* Gypsy Moth (Lymantria
dispar) - Update on Regulated Areas within the U.S.
* Asian
Longhorned Beetle Infested Trees Found on Uninhabited New York Island off
Staten Island
ARS - Agricultural Research Service
* New Durum Wheat Line Resists
Scab Disease
* Superb Iceberg Lettuces Resist
Corky Root, Mosaic Virus
* New Offerings Target Aphid's
Grip on Barley
Beyond Pesticides
* New Read Your Weeds Factsheet
Supports Growing Organic Lawn Trend
* Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog
CSREES
EPA
* Comments Sought on Compliance
Requirements Related to Production of Plant-Incorporated Protectants
* New Fact Sheet Addresses
Concerns Regarding Outdoor Residential (Mosquito) Misting Systems
* PPDC PRIA Process Improvement
Workgroup Meeting Meets April 10, 2007
* Six New Registration Review
Dockets Open for Comment
* Pesticide
Program 2006 Annual Report Available
* EPA Reminds Communities How to
Prevent Unintentional Pesticide Poisonings
* EPA Makes Available a Summary
of Aquatic Life Benchmarks for Pesticides
* EPA Pesticide Program Highlights
* EPA Pesticide News Stories Archive
* Federal Register - Pesticides - Archive
House
Agriculture Committee
* Subcommittee Investigates
Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
* Subcommittee Reviews Farm Bill
Commodity Proposals
* Subcommittee Reviews USDA
Rural Development Programs and Farm Bill Proposals
IPM
Institute
* New Location for Buying IPM
Workshop, April 18
* IPM in
the Marketplace - March 14
Pest Control Technology
* PCT Online E-Newsletter -
March 26
Pesticide.net
* Pesticide.net Insider eJournal
- March 13
Plant
Management Network
* PMN News Update - March 28,
2007
SARE
* Innovations in Agricultural
Marketing
* SARE
Calendar of Sustainable Agriculture Events
Funding Opportunities
Northeastern
* EPA - Region 1 (New
England) - Healthy Communities Grant
Program
* Northeast IPM Center's
Vegetable IPM Working Group – Vegetable and Strawberry IPM
Educator Exchange Program (updated information)
* Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education (SARE) – Northeast – Research and Education and
Professional Development
* USDA - NRCS - New York – Conservation Innovation Grants
for 2007
National
* American Nursery &
Landscape Association – Horticultural Research
Institute
* EPA – National Center for
Environmental Research STAR – Computational Toxicology
Centers: Development Of Predictive Environmental And Biomedical Computer-Based
Simulations And Models
* EPA & USDA – Ecological Impacts from the
Interactions of Climate Change, Land Use Change and Invasive Species: A Joint
Research Solicitation
* Northern Nut Growers
Association – NNGA Research Grant
* NSF – Research Coordination Networks
in Biological Sciences
* USDA – CSREES – IR-4, Minor Crop Pest Management
Centers
* USDA – CSREES – Expert Integrated Pest
Management Decision Support System (EIPMDSS)
* USDA – CSREES – Food and Agricultural Sciences
National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants
Job Opportunities
* Associate
Entomologist - National Zoological Park (Washington, D.C.)
* Entomologist - Ohio/Michigan
- c/o Stebbins and Associates
* Extension
Educator, Agriculture and Natural Resources - University of Maryland
Extension
* Community
Educator - Fruits & Vegetables - Cornell Cooperative Extension -
Otsego County
* Research
Support Specialist, Fruit Pathology (Fuchs Lab) - Cornell Univ. -
Dept. of Plant Pathology (Geneva)
* Research
Support Specialist, Fruit Pathology (Cox Lab) - Cornell Univ. -
Dept. of Plant Pathology (Geneva)
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