Success StoryCrop Pest Management Webinars in 2023 by University of Kentucky’s REC IPM Crop Working Group



Crop Pest Management Webinars in 2023 by University of Kentucky’s REC IPM Crop Working Group

Author: Raul Villanueva

Planning Unit: Entomology

Major Program: Grains

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

A four-week webinar series was conducted by the Field Crop Pest Management Extension Specialist of the University of Kentucky’s Research and Education Center at Princeton from 2 to 30 of November 2023 to provide row crops clientele with research-based information in Entomology, Plant pathology and Weed science. This series also provided continuing education credits to Certified Crop Advisor, County Agent In-service training, and pesticide applicator. Webinar series speakers and topics included Dr. Kiersten Wise, “Do multiple corn fungicide applications pay?” Dr. Carl Bradley, “What have we learned from nearly two decades of research on soybean with foliar fungicides?” Dr. Travis Legleiter, “Managing the offensive spread of weeds”; and Dr. Raul T. Villanueva and A. Falcon-Flores, “Insects in field crops during two years of partial drought and heat wave”. These webinars were hosted by the Southern IPM Center and had over 211 attendees in total. In addition to local stakeholder and Agent attendees, each webinar had attendees from states outside of Kentucky, and several webinars had international attendees. Multiple people attended more than one webinar in the series. 






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