IPM-PIPE Basics Don Hershman IPM-PIPE Steering Committee Chair Univ of Kentucky Jim VanKirk S-IPM Center Director North Carolina State Univ

Outline Brief overview of IPM-PIPE. IPM-PIPE component public websites. Key features of password- protected website.

IPM-PIPE Integrated Pest Management Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education

IPM-PIPE Basics International, multi-institutional, multi- agency, multi-organizational activity: 41 states/territories, 5 Canadian Provinces, 5 Mexican States 100’s of individuals are involved. Facilitated by an Executive Committee and 22 member Steering Committee. Majority funding from USDA-Aphis in 2005 and USDA-RMA in significant funding from check-off sources, LGU’s and state government.

1. Soybean Rust PIPE Initiated in Soybean Aphid PIPE Initiated in Legume PIPE Pilot initiated in 2007 COMPONENTS 4. What’s next?

IPM-PIPE Components are Based on Traditional IPM Template Collect pertinent information Analyze information Access recommendations and make decisions Keep records Feed the results back into the loop

What makes the PIPE unique? Unprecedented coordination and implementation of crop and/or pest-specific IPM activities and pest diagnosis. State of the art IT for uploading, managing, displaying and archiving crop and pest data. Large scale use of data to fuel individual and ensemble disease forecasting models. Efficient end-user interface (public website) to access near real-time national and state-specific, crop and pest conditions, recommendations and documents …..”one stop shopping”.

SBR Public Interface

SBA Public Interface

No public Legume PIPE interface for 2007 Pilot project only involving password-protected website Probable public interface beginning in 2008.

Management of state specific data, information and documents via password-protected web access

PASSWORD-PROTECTED SBR INTERFACE for Specialists

Pest selection

Password protected SBA interface for specialists

ZOOM TOOL

Calendar

Model outputs

Specialist Tools

State Commentary Management

State-specific documents can be uploaded

Observation map

DATA OBSERVATION BY STATE, COUNTY OR POINT

PASSWORD PROTECTED INTERFACE FOR OBSERVERS (DATA UPLOAD)