Extension
It Starts With Us
Producer and Consumer Safety
Chemical Management
C. Guffey
Integrated Pest Management
Chemical application at its best is simultaneously safe, effective, economical, and environmentally-conscious. Achieving each of these attributes for plant pest management is an ongoing educational process for a variety of applicator groups, including farm managers and workers, gardeners, crop advisors, point-of-sale employees, and industry and government agency representatives. This process will include educational sessions, hands-on demonstrations, test plots, coordinated recommendations, and site-specific farm visits by various extension personnel. In addition to timely and relevant updates on new chemicals, focus areas are chemical safety, efficacious usage, and integration of diversified approaches alongside chemicals. Attention to these foci will benefit not only applicators, but anyone who comes in contact with agricultural fields or uses Kentucky food, fuel, and fiber crops as part of everyday life.
•Reduction of drift related complaints and damage.
•Improve sustainability of animal livestock production systems.
•Reduction in rate of pesticide resistance development in pests, weeds, pathogens.
•Improve sustainability of crop production systems
•Design effective spray schedules for plant pest management.
•Designing effective administration schedules.
•Use diagnostic services to identify insects, disease, weeds
•Calibrate sprayer, select appropriate nozzles and pressure, test spray water
•Observe proper chemical handling, storage, and cleanup in home, farm, or business.
•Increase homeowner/general public awareness of safe livestock medication procedures.
•Demonstrate proper use of sprayers and equipment related to application (calibration, nozzle selection, boom height, etc.)
•Understanding IPM (triggers to spray, thresholds, etc.)
Initial Outcome: Proper chemical handling, storage, and cleanup in home, farm, or business
Indicator: producers participating in pesticide container recycling program
Method: KY Dept. of Ag
Timeline: Summer
Initial Outcome: Using Diagnostic services to identify insects, disease and weeds.
Indicator: number of calls and visits related to ID of insects, weeds or disease.
Method: farm visits and calls
Timeline: on-going
Audience: All Producers
Project or Activity: Private Applicator Training
Content or Curriculum: Private Applicator Training Materials
Inputs: UK specialists & industry professionals
Date: As Needed
Audience: Bee Keepers
Project or Activity: Education Series
Content or Curriculum: Beginning Beekeeping, producing queens, insect management.
Inputs: UK specialists & industry professionals
Date: Winter 19
Audience: All Producers
Project or Activity: CAIP (cost-share) Trainings
Content or Curriculum: Various Topics
Inputs: UK specialists & industry professionals
Date: As Needed
Audience: Tobacco Producers
Project or Activity: GAP Training
Content or Curriculum: GAP Training Materials
Inputs: UK specialists & industry professionals
Date: Winter 19
Audience: All Producers
Project or Activity: On-farm sprayer calibration demonstration
Content or Curriculum: UK Publications
Inputs: Specialist and Agent
Date: Winter 19
