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IPM Voice Update
February 22, 2012
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Administration Proposes Major Reorganization of IPM Programs: Level Funding
Requested
The 2013 National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) budget submitted by
USDA
is the most significant change in IPM programs in many years. The 2013 USDA
request
builds on successful efforts by IPM Voice and the National Alliance of
Independent
Crop Consultants (NAICC) to protect IPM funding. Last year IPM Voice and NAICC
successfully secured $3.6 million more than USDA requested. The 2013 USDA
budget
includes almost all of these increases.
Proposed Program Changes
The base NIFA IPM research program, Extension IPM funding, Regional Pest
Management
Centers and the Minor Crop Program (IR-4) are combined in a new program called
the
"Crop Protection Program." Expert IPM Decision Support System, IPM & Biological
Control, Pest Management Alternatives and Smith-lever 3(d) Pest Management are
merged
into the consolidated budget as well.
In recent USDA NIFA budgets, the typical text related to many IPM line items has
been "this program will now be funded by the NIFA budget as a whole." The
proposed
2013 budget is the clearest affirmation of the importance of IPM in many years.
For the fullest description available of what USDA envisions go to
http://www.obpa.usda.gov/17nifa2013notes.pdf
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page 17-81.
Budget Changes
About 70% of the funds in the new Crop Protection Program come from the IR-4 and
the IPM Extension programs. The balance is from the Regional Centers and the
base
IPM research program budget.
Here's a summary:
*
The request for 2013 for the combined program is $29.056 million.
* The request is about 11% ($2.9 million) more than the Administration requested
in 2012.
* The request is about 2.6% ($700,000) less than Congress provided to IPM and
IR-4
last year. Overall, the proposed NIFA budget is down 6%.
* The Methyl Bromide Alternatives program is merged into the new Crop Protection
Program. If Methyl Bromide Alternatives continues to be funded at last year's
level of $1.996 million, funds for the other IPM items will be cut 9% compared
to
last year's Congressional budget. (USDA did not request funds for Methyl Bromide
research in 2012.)
* USDA's 2013 request for IPM is 25% less than in 2010. Since 2000, NIFA's
budget
overall has gone up 16% while IPM has gone down 35%. These disturbing trends are
why IPM Voice was founded.
* There are no funds for the IPM PIPE program in spite of the fact that the USDA
budget document reports it has saved farmers $1 billion (p. 17-100). IPM PIPE
was last funded in the 2010 budget.
IPM Voice will continue to work with its allies for the highest possible level
of
IPM funding. Your support is needed. Please join today and add your voice to
those
advocating for IPM.
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Weigh In on the New Crop Protection Program
NIFA will hold the first in a series of listening sessions on the new Crop
Protection
Program in Memphis on March 29, from 2 to 5 PM, immediately following the IPM
Symposium.
Listening session webinars will be held during the afternoon (EST) of April
11th
and May 1st. An in-person session will be held in Washington on April 16th.
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IPM? What's That?
If you ask the average consumer or taxpayer what IPM is, there is a good chance
you'll get a blank stare. That's according to Cornell Survey Research Institute
polls taken between 1989 and 2006. The awareness needle has barely budged over
that
interval. In 2006, only 17% of 800 New Yorkers polled reported having heard of
IPM,
vs. 12% in 1989.
Who cares? Does low awareness matter? Yes! For one, it makes it difficult to
organize
taxpayers to advocate for IPM support from state and federal decision makers.
For
another, low awareness makes it challenging for an IPM grower to answer
questions
from, or market to, customers concerned about the impacts of production
practices
on health and environment. More than 375 million acres worldwide
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are now certified for using IPM practices, up from 246 million acres in 2008
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These producers and many others could benefit from greater consumer appreciation
for IPM and its benefits.
So what's an IPM advocate to do? Should we focus on IPM adoption by users and
potential
users? Certainly we have fertile ground to cover in that arena. Recent USDA
Natural
Resources Conservation Service reports
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show that only 6% to 10% of cropland acres in the Chesapeake Bay, Great Lakes
and
Upper Mississippi River regions are managed at relatively high level of IPM. The
steering committee for the National School IPM Working Group estimates that
less
than 8% of our school systems nationally are achieving high-level IPM.
Can we point to any successes? Yes. Many! Asian soybean rust has been tamed
with
minimal fungicide use through an innovative monitoring network called the
ipmPIPE.
Conventional field corn insecticide use has been greatly reduced through host
plant
resistance. The cotton boll weevil has been essentially eradicated in the US
cotton
belt by using a combination of genetic, cultural and chemical tactics. And much
of urban pest control for cockroaches and ants has moved to a safer baiting
paradigm
versus indoor use of broad-spectrum insecticides. But we have much further to
go.
Perhaps we should focus on increasing awareness and appreciation by the general
public? That strategy could "pull" more IPM from agricultural producers, and
structural
and lawn and landscape pest control service providers. Seventy-eight percent of
US families now purchase organic products and 72% of parents are familiar with
the
USDA Organic seal. The organic industry grew by 8% in 2010. That is an
impressive
lead to follow.
IPM Voice's advocacy committee is currently working to create goals, strategies
and action steps to increase IPM adoption, awareness and appreciation. We'd
like
to hear your suggestions. Whom should we target? Messages? What low-cost,
high-impact
strategies might be effective in reaching that audience? Would you like to
participate
on the committee? Send your comments to i...@ipmvoice.org
[mailto:i...@ipmvoice.org]
or join our session at the IPM Symposium, March 27-29, in Memphis
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We look forward to your input, and to seeing you in Memphis!
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IPM Voice Needs Your Support in 2012!
Thanks to strong support from our members, IPM Voice accomplished several
significant
goals in 2011. IPM Voice needs continued support from members to reach our goals
for 2012.
Please join or renew your IPM Voice membership for 2012 by visiting
http://www.ipmvoice.org/join.htm
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IPM Voice is an independent, non-profit organization advocating for integrated
pest management (IPM) that is genuinely progressive and seeks continuous
improvement
of environmental, social and economic conditions through application of
accepted
scientific principles. IPM Voice was formed in 2010 by more than 35
professionals
working to expand the benefits IPM has provided to agriculture and communities
for more than 40 years.
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IPM Voice, Inc. / 4510 Regent Street Madison, Wisconsin 53705 / 608-232-1410
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