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A proposal for
five-year research and education project to complete goals of the
Risk Avoidance
and Mitigation Program (RAMP)
Minutes of the
meeting on Jan 06th, 2005, 1.00 pm
Objectives
- Integrate individual components
of past research into an IPM program
- Integrating more than one
method of control
- An intensive monitoring program
to implement from farmer’s field to consumer’s table
- Identifying chemical,
biological, and physical hazards involved in stored grain, processing
plants, retail environments including transportation vehicles such as
rail cars, ships, river barges, and trucks
- Identifying critical control
points for pest entry along the channel of producers to consumers
- Prevention of infestation in
bins, elevators, transportation vehicles, food processing facilities,
and retail environments
- Developing a pest management
program involving prevention, monitoring, sampling, and suppression (PMSS)
methods for specific commodities, including wheat, corn, rice, and organic
production systems – these latter to be used as case studies and for
development of actual, deliverable management system.
Major Activities and Time Lines
Year 1:
 | Undertake component research to identify/discover
innovative insect control methods in the targeted case study systems from
farm to table |
| Identify chemical, biological, and physical hazards
involved along the channel |
| Identify critical control points for principal hazards |
| Begin integrating potentially effective components
from previous RAMP research into management systems for the specific
commodities at various points from farm to table |
| Create extension bulletins and user friendly website
based on previous RAMP outcomes |
| Develop workshops for live presentation and
distributed media |
Year 2:
| Conduct field research to implement year 1 plans,
particularly the integrated systems approaches |
| Continue with discovery of effective components of
IPM, particularly in field scales |
| Assess economic costs and benefits of management
methods being developed |
| Create extension bulletins and user friendly website
based on previous RAMP outcomes |
| Develop workshops for live presentation and
distributed media |
Year 3:
Develop training procedures for various end users
(including grain producers, elevator managers, grain processors, retailers,
extension agents/specialists) in using the PMSS system in managing pest insect
problems
| Continue field tests of component and integrated
methods of insect management |
| Assess economic costs and benefits of management
methods being developed |
| Create extension bulletins and user friendly website
based on previous RAMP outcomes |
| Develop workshops for live presentation and
distributed media |
Year 4:
| Full blown-training program and developing training
modules and bulletins for actual field use |
| Validating all methods developed |
| Assess economic costs and benefits of management
methods being developed |
| Integrate different components of research into insect
management packages |
| Assess economic costs and benefits of management
methods being developed |
Commodities Involved
- Wheat
- Corn
- Rice
- Organic production systems
 | For each commodity/system
there will be one or more than one extension personnel |
| For each commodity/system
there will be separate proposals from principal investigators |
Principal Investigators:
Sonny Ramaswamy, Dirk Maier, Subi Bhadriraju, Frank Arthur,
Tom Phillips
We should focus on wheat in OK and KS, corn in Indiana, and
Rice in Arkansas.
Resources that need to be identified
- Regions
- Collaborators – Ilelji, Woloshuk,
Adam, Bolin, McKay, Campbell, Throne, Beeman, Flinn, Sloderbeck, Lord,
Statisticians
- Types of different grain
elevators
- Types of processing plants
- Types of transportation vehicles
Dirk Maier’s Suggestions:
| Include organic part as a
case study (as previously mentioned in the objectives) |
| Projects involving
bio-security issues to use insects as biosensors |
| Detailed studies involving
detection of mycotoxins and other insect carried pathogens. |
Tom Phillips’s Suggestions:
| To identify;
| Commodities |
| What parts of system need to
look at |
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| Take extension activities to
different states |
| At least 25% of funding has to go
for outreach, tech transfer, workshop, training conferences, and fields
demonstrations |
Subi Bhadriraju’s Suggestions:
| Need to identify ways and means
to measure impact or success of extension
| For example, changes in
people’s behavior |
| Provide instruments to people
and monitor the impact it made on people’s life style |
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| Evaluation of extension services |
Frank Arthur’s Suggestions:
| Integration of different control
strategies |
Sonny Ramaswamy has provided
suggestions/opinions to all of above
Proposals
Organic Proposal (components)
The proposal has three parts
- Need identification: Survey and
assessment on what shall be done
- Identifying different regions and
established-crop systems
- Specifically targeting the
organic stored-product system
PMSS Proposals (components)
The PMSS proposal needed to be
developed for each commodity at each level.
Levels considered are
| Farm
| On-farm storage (bins) |
| Off-farm storage (country
elevators and terminal elevators) |
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| Distribution
| Rail cars |
| Trucks |
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| Processing plants |
| Distribution |
| Ware houses and retail stores |
| Pantry/Table |
Prevention methods
| Aeration |
| Protectants |
| Others??? |
Develop monitoring systems
| Sex pheromone |
| Exclusion methods |
| Genetic structure of population |
Random sampling is necessary in each
level to identify
| Pest risks such as
| Types of insects – beneficial
and destructive |
| Mycotoxins and molds |
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| Grain quality |
Suppression
| Specific suppression methods |
Evaluation
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