IPM-PIPE BasicsIPM-PIPE Basics

Don Hershman IPM-PIPE Steering Committee Chair

Univ of Kentucky

Jim VanKirkS-IPM Center Director

North Carolina State Univ

OutlineOutline

• Brief overview of IPM-PIPE.• IPM-PIPE component public

websites.• Key features of password-

protected website.

IPM-PIPEIPM-PIPE

• Integrated Pest

Management

• Pest

• Information

• Platform for

• Extension and Education

IPM-PIPE BasicsIPM-PIPE Basics

• International, multi-institutional, multi-

agency, multi-organizational activity:• 41 states/territories, 5 Canadian Provinces, 5 Mexican

States

• 100’s of individuals are involved.

• Facilitated by an Executive Committee

and 22 member Steering Committee.

• Majority funding from USDA-Aphis in

2005 and USDA-RMA in 2006-07 +

significant funding from check-off

sources, LGU’s and state government.

1. Soybean RustPIPE

Initiated in 2005

2. Soybean AphidPIPE

Initiated in 2006

3. Legume PIPE

Pilot initiated in 2007

COMPONENTS

4. What’s next?

IPM-PIPE Components are Based

on Traditional IPM Template

IPM-PIPE Components are Based

on Traditional IPM Template

• Collect pertinent information

• Analyze information

• Access recommendations and

make decisions

• Keep records

• Feed the results back into the

loop

What makes the PIPE unique?What makes the PIPE unique?

• Unprecedented coordination and

implementation of crop and/or pest-

specific IPM activities and pest diagnosis.

• State of the art IT for uploading, managing,

displaying and archiving crop and pest data.

• Large scale use of data to fuel individual

and ensemble disease forecasting models.

• Efficient end-user interface (public website) to

access near real-time national and state-

specific, crop and pest conditions,

recommendations and documents …..”one stop

shopping”.

SBR Public Interfacewww.sbrusa.net

SBA Public Interface

No public Legume PIPE interface for 2007

No public Legume PIPE interface for 2007

• Pilot project only involving password-protected website

• Probable public interface beginning in 2008.

Management of state specific data, information and documents via password-protected web access

PASSWORD-PROTECTED SBR INTERFACE for Specialists

Pest selection

Password protected SBA interface for specialists

ZOOM TOOL

Calendar

Model outputs

Specialist Tools

State Commentary Management

State-specific documents can be uploaded

Observation map

DATA OBSERVATION BY STATE, COUNTY OR POINT

PASSWORD PROTECTED INTERFACE FOR OBSERVERS (DATA UPLOAD)