“WHAT’S HAPPENING?”
The University of Tennessee/Agricultural Extension Service
Entomology & Plant Pathology - EPP #60
18 May 2007
FYI – IPM BROCHURES
by Darrell Hensley
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences program has created several
publications useful to southern region states. The first is a small ring-bound pocket guide, with 20
beneficial lawn insects, called "Good Lawn Bugs."
They have created a basic Integrated Pest Management brochure which is a folded brochure, titled "Learn
About IPM." This brochure is specifically for the county level and they do have one available for the state
level. These brochures, have a space at the bottom for state or county logos, each brochure has basic
definitions of IPM, benefits, methods and steps. Because several of you have space limitations in e-mail,
I'm not sending attachments, but you can find all of the templates at www.sripmc.org/publications. The
brochures, which are in pdf form, were originally created in PageMaker, so if you have access to
PageMaker, you can change logos and photos for your own county or Tennessee’s design.
To get copies of the original PageMaker files, you may e-mail Jennifer Gillett at gillett@ufl.edu. You can
download the pdf files from the SRIPMC or Florida’s web sites.
PESTICIDE CERTIFICATION REMINDERS
by Gene Burgess
Some questions have come up about the following issues.
1. Social Security Numbers:
Please remember when a new Private Applicator goes through the training and sends in their form and $10 to TDA, they must put their SSN on the form for TDA to process. Extension offices no longer keep a copies of the TDA triplicate forms but substitute EPP Info #756 for your files. And, only the last four digits of the SSN are requested on UT’s rosters for recertification points.
2. Dealers Certification:
Category 12 is for dealers to sell restricted-use pesticides only. If a dealer wants to buy a restricted-use pesticide for their own use, they must be certified in the area they are applying the pesticide. For example, if they are applying it on their own farm, they must be certified as a Private Applicator.
3. Extension Agents Certification:
Extension Agents must be certified in Category 10 in order to make recommendations and put out demonstrations. If an agent wants to apply a restricted-use pesticide on their own farm or for other personal reasons, they must be certified as a Private Applicator or Commercial Applicator in the respective category. For some, this may be a slight change in practice from a number of years ago. For a Private Applicator certification, you would send in a copy of the TDA triplicate form to TDA with a note on the form that you are a UT employee. You will not have to pay the $10 fee to become a Private Applicator or the $15 fee to take a commercial certification exam.
METHYL BROMIDE INVENTORY CONTINUES DOWNWARD TREND - NEWS BRIEF
by Gene Burgess
The methyl bromide inventory held by U.S. companies at the end of 2006 continues to shrink, according to data released by EPA today. The data show a steady decline in the inventory since 2003, when the Agency began collecting such information.
Methyl bromide is an ozone-depleting chemical that has been used as a general pesticide across a wide range of agricultural sectors for many years. Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the Clean Air Act, the United States phased out new production and import of methyl bromide, except for allowable exemptions for users who have no technically and economically feasible alternatives.
The data that EPA is releasing includes, in aggregate form, the inventory held by approximately 35 companies in the United States at the end of 2006. The methyl bromide inventory data, displayed graphically below, shows a steady decline - approximately 16,422 metric tons in 2003, 12,994
metric tons in 2004, 9,974 metric tons in 2005, and 7,671 metric tons in 2006 - and demonstrates that the United States continues to manage its domestic inventory appropriately.
The phaseout of new production and import, and the orderly reduction in the existing inventory, are facilitating a transition to alternatives in a manner consistent with previous successful phaseouts of ozone-depleting substances, such as chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) and halons. The United
States continues to protect the ozone layer and meet its obligations under the Montreal Protocol while meeting the needs of American farmers.
For more information on the phaseout of methyl bromide, please visit:
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/mbr
Taken from EPA Pesticide Programs Update
FIELD CROP UPDATE
by Russ Patrick
Corn:
We continue to have cool moist conditions this week favorable for cutworm infestations. If you see any plants that may have been damaged by cutworms, please take the appropriate action and control them if they reach threshold levels. There have been no reports of armyworms infesting corn. It is possible since wheat was a diaster crop this year and the worms will have to go to lush foliage.
Trap Catches:
Milan: Black cutworm-3, Armyworm-4, Southwestern corn borer- 2, Jackson: Black cutworm-4, Armyworm-4, Southwestern Corn borer- 4. We may expect to see more southwestern moths this next week since it is time for the
overwintering generation to emerge in larger numbers. As we get the results they will be posted.
OTHER UT NEWSLETTERS WITH PEST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
http://web.utk.edu/~extepp/fpn/fpn.htm
Tennessee Crop and Pest Management Newsletter
http://www.utextension.utk.edu/fieldCrops/cotton/cotton_insects/ipmnewsletters.htm
This and other "What's Happening" issues can be found at attp://web.utk.edu/~extepp/whatshap.htm
Disclaimer Statement
Pesticides recommended in this publication were registered for the prescribed uses when printed. Pesticide regulations
are continuously reviewed. Should registration or a recommended pesticide be canceled, it would
no longer be recommended by the University of Tennessee.
Use of trade or brand names in this publication is for clarity and information; it does not imply approval of the
product to the exclusion of others that may be of similar, suitable composition, nor does it guarantee or
warrant the standard of the product.
Precautionary Statement
To protect people and the environment, pesticides should be used safely. This is everyone’s responsibility,
especially the user. Read and follow label directions carefully before you mix, apply store or dispose of a pesticide. According to laws regulating pesticides, they must be used only as directed by the label.
Persons who do not obey the law will be subject to penalties.
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