IPM: Where to Next?

Abstract

American Entomologist • Summer 2010 In this paper, we present a brief overview of IPM’s history, its present status, and current and future trends we see developing, along with our suggestions for actions that we believe will help IPM implementation grow and prosper as a unifying concept. Our careers as colleagues and collaborators have spanned over 30 years, beginning in 1978 in the Department of Entomology at North Dakota State University (Kopp with an extension appointment and Meyer with a research/teaching appointment). For the past 12 years, we have had program leadership roles in the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). In Washington, working with colleagues and stakeholders, we have had the opportunity to conceptualize, prioritize, direct, manage and implement IPMrelated programs at the national level. At least in some small ways, we have shaped and focused directions for federally funded USDA IPM programs. We have served in leadership roles for the following USDA programs: National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (NAPIAP), Regional IPM Centers, Pest Management Alternatives Program (PMAP), Crops at Risk (CAR), Risk Avoidance and Management Program (RAMP), Methyl Bromide Transitions (MBT), Minor Crops Pest Management (IR-4) Program, National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN), and Critical Issues: Emerging and New Plant and Animal Pests and Diseases Program. The ideas presented here have evolved over the course of our shared state and federal careers: these perceptions, ideas and suggestions represent our own views and are not those of the USDA, CSREES or that of the federal government. CSREES has now been reorganized, consistent with requirements of the 2008 Farm Bill legislation, and became the National Institute of Dennis D. Kopp and H.J. (Rick) Meyer