Pest Management Alliance Grants Awarded 2021
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Project Summaries
Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Herbicide-Based Approaches to Invasive Plant Management
Sponsor: California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC)
Principal Investigator: Jutta Burger
Funding totals: $289,318
The goal of this project is to provide land managers with the best available information on situation-specific methods for controlling invasive plants. The Alliance Team will accomplish this goal by collecting and synthesizing the most current information on the situation-specific use of herbicides to control invasive plants in non-agricultural settings in California; identifying and compiling best management practices for the use of the herbicides to control invasive plants in California; and creating, hosting, and promoting the usage of the online decision support tool for land managers. While this project focuses on herbicide-based control methods, its decision support tool will be integrated with the decision support tool developed by a previous Alliance Grants project that focused on non-herbicide control methods. Providing users with information on the situational effectiveness of all control methods, herbicide and non-herbicide, will guide and support their invasive plant control objectives and maximize the effectiveness of their chosen control methods while reducing negative environmental impacts.
Media contact: Jutta Burger, Principal Investigator, 510-843-1255,Jburger@cal-ipc.org
Promoting Small Farm Use of Navel Orangeworm Mating Disruption Using Online Mapping and Neighborhood Management
Sponsor: Almond Board of California
Principal Investigator: Jesse Roseman
Funding totals: $120,373
Recent research funded by the Almond Board of California (ABC) and the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) found that mating disruption (MD) is only effective for controlling navel orangeworm (NOW) in almonds when field sizes are greater than 40 acres. This field size threshold is due to how the perimeter-to-area ratio of each field affects the dispersion of the MD pheromone and how external pest pressure is modified by that ratio. The Alliance Team, composed of ABC, Land IQ, the University of California Cooperative Extension, and Blue Diamond Growers, aims to solve the field size threshold problem for small growers with almond, pistachio, and/or walnut fields of less than 40 acres by developing an online mapping tool that collects user entered data for areas where growers and Pest Control Advisers have expressed interest in collaboratively adopting MD and reporting NOW trap data. The Alliance Team will then analyze that data to develop field clusters of greater than 40 acres, conduct outreach to drive the adoption of MD among small growers within field clusters, and provide coordination with the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Services, which provides incentives under its integrated pest management practice standard (#595).
Media contact: Jesse Roseman, Principal Investigator, 209-343-3285, jroseman@almondboard.com
For content questions, contact:
Tory Vizenor
1001 I Street, P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
E-mail: Tory.Vizenor@cdpr.ca.gov