By:
Thomas Phillips, Frank
Arthur, Phillip
Sloderbeck, Brian
Adam, Dirk Maier
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 emerging subject matter of critical
importance to U.S. agriculture in which few have taken formal
training during their undergraduate or graduate college education.
