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Outreach and Technology Transfer
Project personnel: Bh.
Subramanyam, Gerrit
Cuperus, Tim Herrman,
Thomas Phillips, Frank
Arthur, Phillip
Sloderbeck, Brian Adam,
Dirk
Maier
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[2002 Annual Reports] |
The outreach and technology transfer
portion of this research will include new extension
and education materials for our diverse clientele (see above), field
days and presentations, national and
regional workshops, training courses, and a comprehensive website
to provide up-to-date information. Oklahoma State University and Kansas
State University currently have
several informational bulletins and training manuals available on
the subjects of stored grain and stored product management. Many of
these are scheduled for revision by
the end of this project and information on alternatives to OP insecticides
and the fumigants will be incorporated into these revisions.
Additionally, we will publish new
informational documents on management of insects in stored grain and
food-handling establishments.
Research results on OP and fumigant
alternatives will be published in peer reviewed
journals and also communicated to user groups through training sessions,
oral presentations,
extension bulletins, trade journals and newsletters. A key training
session for grain
industry members that will be attended by all PIs of this project will
be the Sixth National
Stored Product IPM Training Conference scheduled for summer 2001 in
Manhattan, KS. Information
will also be presented on the web sites of both Oklahoma State
University and the USDA Grain Marketing and Production Research Center.
A prototype of this
web site is already launched at K-State and can be accessed by logging
on to: http://www.ksu.edu/issa/speres.
The user id for this protected site isbugprop and the
password is INstar008.The information at this site will be an invaluable
resource to all our
stakeholders.
All information generated from this project will be
provided to state agencies and extension
personnel in the grain-growing states responsible for pesticide
certification and training.
Information will also be provided to the national NAPIAP office [Office
of Pest Management and Policy] and
to state NAPIAP liaisons. The same information will be shared
with the National Pest Control Association and with each state pest
control association.
A distance education course on Value
Adding Grains and Oilseeds is
currently under development at
Purdue University. The focus of this on-line distance education course
is on helping Indiana producers, educators and agribusiness
professionals increase in their
ability to minimize risk and maximize income due to improved agronomic
production practices, special harvest
considerations, grain handling facility planning and operation,
post-harvest grain quality management, marketing and utilization skills.
It is proposed the we utilize this
platform and expand the modules on Grain Handling Facility
Planning and Operation and Post-Harvest
Grain Quality Management for a
national audience by incorporating
the expertise of the collaborating project members from OSU, KSU
and the GMPRC and the knowledge gained from the various research aspects
of this proposal. In terms of
information delivery this distance- learning course will be accessible
via the World Wide Web to any target audience member via their home
computers. In terms of the educational
methodology this course will use proven best practices
and verifiable results, and require a formal registration procedure
(including course fees, course
grades, and continuing education credits). This course will support
staff development by providing extension
staff the opportunity for self-directed learning in
an emerging subject matter of critical importance to U.S. agriculture in
which few have taken formal training
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