Success Story2020 University of Kentucky Crop Pest Management Webinars



2020 University of Kentucky Crop Pest Management Webinars

Author: Kiersten Wise

Planning Unit: Plant Pathology

Major Program: Integrated Pest Management

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

In 2020, traditional meetings on field crop pest management were cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions on in-person events. The field crop pest management group at UK, led by Dr. Kiersten Wise, developed a 5-week webinar series in November and December of 2020 to provide stakeholders with research-based pest management information, and also provide Certified Crop Advisor continuing education credits, Agent In-service training, and pesticide applicator training to clientele. Webinar series speakers and topics included Dr. Kiersten Wise, “New ways to manage old diseases in corn;” Dr. Carl Bradley, “What lies beneath: Management of sudden death syndrome and soybean cyst nematode;” Dr. Raul T. Villanueva and Zenaida Viloria, “Geographic expansion of the brown marmorated stink bug in Kentucky;” Dr. JD Green, “Selecting the right herbicide tolerant crop traits and the right herbicides applied at the right time;” and Dr. Travis Legleiter, “Tackling top 5 weeds of the Mid-South.” These webinars were hosted by the Southern IPM Center and had over 200 attendees in total. In addition to local stakeholder and Agent attendees, each webinar had national and international attendees, and multiple people attended more than one webinar in the series. The series will be repeated in 2021 due to high demand and requests for similar trainings.






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