1. Fourth Stored Product Pest Management & Heat Treatment Workshop Bh. Subramanyam (Subi) Department of Grain Science and Industry Kansas State University

2. KSU Heat Treatment Workshops  1 st Aug 4-6, 1999  2 nd Aug 14-16, 2000  3 rd Aug 6 – 8, 2001  6 th National Stored Product IPM Conference, August 19-21, 2002  4 th Aug 5-7, 2003  5 th May ?? IAOM Annual Technical Conference in Wichita, KS

3. Number of Participants  1 st 67  2 nd 54  3 rd 77  4 th 79  Pest management professionals, representatives from the brewing industry, food & feed processing industries, OSHA, heat treatment company representatives, graduate students, researchers, pesticide registrants  All workshops were sponsored by the AFIA

4. International Representation  Australia, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal, Japan, Canada  4 th Heat Treatment Workshop  Japan, Canada, Peru, and Austria

5. 4 th Heat Treatment Workshop Format  29 presentations  Bioterrorism Act and its implications  Product updates  IPM  Heater types, and impact of heat on insects, nematodes, pathogens  Heat Treatment Calculator  Risk management  Demonstration on how a heat treatment is done  Feed mill – Gas heat treatment  Flour mill – Steam heat treatment

6. Importance of heat treatments  It is a methyl bromide alternative  One of the tools in the IPM tool box  Complements other IPM tactics (fumigants)  It is still an “ART”  We are striving to understand and develop this technology into a “SCIENCE”

7. I am hoping that…..  You will appreciate how easy it is to do a heat treatment  Experience first hand what it feels to walk through a heated facility  Interact with speakers and other participants regarding heat treatments and pest management  Try this technique, at least once!

8. Housekeeping Items  Notebooks – proceedings  General information on heat treatment  No food or drink inside SH 311  Walkthrough schedule  Bathrooms – 2 nd and 3 rd floors  Smoking areas – south side of feed mill and eastside of Shellenberger (30 ft)  Assistance – Purple shirts

9. Acknowledgments  Participants  Speakers  Workshop coordination staff  Temp-Air staff  Feed and flour mill personnel

10. Enjoy the Workshop!