Pesticide Roundtable
Pesticides Best Management Practices Roundtable
January 24-25, 2006 - Nebraska City, NE
The Heartland Water Quality Coordination
Initiative's Nutrient and Pesticide Management (NPM) Team
hosted a Pesticides Best Management Practices (BMPs) Roundtable
at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center, located at the
Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, NE. This roundtable was
held on January 24-25, 2006.
The Pesticides Roundtable consisted of 24 participants from
IA, KS, MO, and NE. These participants included university
researchers and state and federal agency personnel. The
NPM team hosted similar Roundtables in 2004 regarding Phosphorus
BMPs, and 2005 covering Nitrogen BMPs. Both of these roundtables
were followed by a summer workshop. This workshop was designed
to discuss roundtable issues and to establish implementation
procedures throughout the state and county levels. A similar
workshop will be held this summer, June 6-8, 2006 to cover
Pesticide BMPs.
Workshop Information and Presentations are
listed below.
Roundtable
Agenda
Roundtable
Participants
Workshop Speakers and Presentations...
Overview
of Pesticide Concerns in Region 7 - Brad
Horchem, US EPA Region 7
Pesticide
Contamination of Water in Kansas - Dale
Lambley, KS Dept. of Agriculture
Pesticide
Contamination of Water in Iowa - Mary
Skopec, Iowa Geologic Survey
Pesticide
Effects on Aquatic Organisms - Kyle
Hoagland, University of Nebraska
Effects
of Conservation Practices and Set Back on Pesticide Runoff - Tom Franti, University of Nebraska
Pesticides
and Water Research Update for Missouri - Robert Lerch, USDA-ARS
Pesticides and Water Research Update for Kansas - Dan
Devlin and Phil Barnes, Kansas State University
Review
of Nutrient and Pesticide Management Website - Amanda
Schielke, Kansas State University
Trends in Atrazine in Iowa: Ways of Examining Data - Rich
Pope, Iowa State University and Mary Skopec, Iowa Geologic
Survey
Pesticides
and Water Research Update for Nebraska - Mark Bernards, University of Nebraska
Pesticides and Water Research Update for Iowa - Jim Ellerhoff, IA Dept. of Agriculture
Integrating GIS and Soil Land Data for Potential Pesticide
Loss to Water - Patrick Shea and Maribeth Milner, University of Nebraska
Small Group Discussions:
Regional
Collaborative Efforts and Opportunities:
- The NPM Website - What role should it play for
improved pesticide management?
- A Regional Extension Publication targeted to
a professional audience
- Development and application of criteria for
identification of major pollutant source areas
within watersheds with the current state of knowledge
Planning
of the June Pesticides BMP Workshop:
- Topics to be addressed and resource people
- Topics for workshop breakout groups
Research
Needs:
- Identify opportunities to meet needs through
regional collaboration
- Identify the objectives, funding opportunities,
and the next steps to be taken for a few priority
opportunities.
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