Center Impacts

Leveraged Funding

Leveraged Funding from 2022 to present
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467% ROI

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Center Outputs

Center outputs from June 2024 – May 2025

Funded Projects

For the 2025 funding year, SIPMC received 36 proposals with total requested funds of $718,929. Of those, 8 projects were funded, including 5 working groups, for a total of $268,706. Disciplines included Weed Science, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Social Science and Humanities, and Human Health. Cooperating States include 13 of the 15 Southern states and territories, and collaborations outside the Southern region.

2025 Funded Projects

Friends of IPM

The 2025 Friends of IPM Awardees included the categories of Bright Idea, Pulling Together, IPM Educator, Future Leader, IPM Hall of Fame, and two Doctoral Students.

Sonja Swiger

Sonja has provided valuable training courses on vector identification, disease...

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Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSP)

Cotton Southern Plains

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Crapemyrtle

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Strawberry

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Fall 2024

November 2024: Managed Pollinator Protection Plans – Pollinators and Pollination
Speaker: Ana Heck, Michigan State University

September 2024: Supporting Homeowner IPM Programs
Speaker: Faith Oi, UF/IFAS

August 2024: Southern IPM Opportunities
Southern IPM Center Staff

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Center Outputs

Center outputs from June 2023 – May 2024

Funded Projects

For the 2024 funding year, the Southern IPM Center received 32 proposals with total requested funds of $960,638. Out of those, we funded 11 projects, including five working groups, for a total of $347,152. Disciplines, some interdisciplinary, range from Human Health, Animal Health, Wildlife, Forestry, Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science.

2024 Funded Projects

Friends of IPM

The 2025 Friends of IPM Awardees included the categories of Communicator, Educator, Implementer, Future Leader, Pulling Together, Hall of Fame (4), Master’s Student, and Doctoral Student.

2024 Awardees

Jawwad Qureshi

Jawwad’s innovative monitoring, biological control, and chemical control research has...

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Master's and Doctoral Student Story

Master’s Student: Jordan Melson-Jordan, Auburn University

Doctoral Student: Johnalyn Gordon, University of Kentucky

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Dec.  2023: Increasing lawn diversity to promote biodiversity and reduce management inputs in urban landscapes
Adam Dale, University of Florida

October 2023: Application Technologies on Weed Control in Flooded and Furrow-Irrigated Rice
Thomas Butts, University of Arkansas

September 2023: Working Groups: Forming, Funding, and Momentum
Rebecca Melanson (Mississippi State) and Ash Sial (UGA)

August 2023: Bugwood-What is it?
Joe LaForest, University of Georgia

May 2024: Keep It SIMPLE:  A Sweetpotato Weevil Integrated Management Plan for Environmental and Economic Sustainability
Jeff Davis, LSU AgCenter

Feb. 2024:  Epidemiology And Management Of Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus, An Emerging Insect-Transmitted Virus In The Southern U.S.
Alana Jacobson, Auburn, University

Jan. 2024: Identifying overwintering and landscape features associated with stink bug risk and yield loss in corn
Dominic Reisig, North Carolina State University

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Center Outputs

Center outputs from June 2022 – May 2023

Funded Projects

For the 2023 funding year, SIPMC received 24 proposals with total requested funds of $747,468. Of those, 8 projects were funded, including 4 working groups, for a total of $264,324.

2023 Funded Projects

Friends of IPM

The 2023 Friends of IPM Awards included two Hall of Famers, one Future Leader, one IPM Communication, two IPM educators, one pulling together group with six group members, one Master’s Student, and one Doctoral Graduate Student.

IPM Hall of Fame: Dr. David Kerns, Texas A&M University
IPM Hall of Fame, Dr. William Hudson, University of Georgia
IPM Communicator: Molly Keck, Texas A&M Agrilife Extension
IPM Educator: Wizzie Brown, Texas A&M University, Agrilife Extension
IPM Educator: Dr. Thomas Allen, Jr., Mississippi State University
Future Leader: Dr. Zachariah Hansen, University of Tennessee
Master’s Graduate Student: Korey Pham, Louisiana State University
Doctoral Graduate Student: Camilo Parada, North Carolina State University

2023 Friends of IPM Awardee Stories

Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSP)

Pine Tree Nursery 

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May 2023: Insect-Pest Management Strategies in Water-Deficit Cotton Production Systems
Megha Parajulee, Texas A&M

April  2023: Blueberries and Beyond: How IR-4 Serves the Specialty Crop Community
Janine Spies, IR-4 Southern Region Field Coordinator, University of Florida

March 2023: Pest Monitoring 2023: Who’s doing what and how you can help
Joe LaForest, University of Georgia

Feb 2023: Pesticide Risk Tool with IPM Institute
Ariel Larson, Senior Project Manager, Sustainable Food Group, IPM Institute

Jan. 2023: Peanut Burrower Bug
Mark Abney, UGA

Dec.  2022: Office of Pest Management Policy, OPMP
Kimberly Nesci, Director of OPMP

Nov.  2022: Field Watch*
Bob Walters, CEO

Oct.  2022: Management of Corn Earworm in Cotton*
David Kerns, Texas A&M Agrilife

Sept. 2022: IPMers ASSEMBLE! Get your Grant Proposal Ready
Southern IPM Center Staff

Sept.  2022: Carpenter Bee IPM*
Elsa Youngstedt and Kate Gorman: Dept. of Applies Ecology, NCSU

Sept.  2022: Strawberry Transplant Thermotherapy for Non-Chemical Management
Natalia Peres, UF-IFAS

August 2022: IPM in Tea
Lorena Lopez, Virginia Tech

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The following Center outputs are from June 2021 – May 2022.

Funded Projects

SIPMC received 21 proposals with total requested funds of $625,206. Of those, 10 projects were funded, including 3 working groups, for a total of $311,289.

2022 Funded Projects

Friends of IPM Awards

The 2022 Friends of IPM Awardee categories included Bright Idea, IPM Educator, IPM Implementer, Pulling Together, Future Leader, 2 Master’s Students, one Doctoral Student, and five Hall-of-Famers.

IPM Hall of Fame:
Tom Royer, Oklahoma State University
Megha Parajulee, Texas A&M Agrilife
Phillip Brannen, University of Georgia
Scott Stewart, The University of Tennessee
Pasco Avery, UF/IFAS/IRREC

Bright Idea: Adam Dale, University of Florida

IPM Educator: Glenn Studebaker, University of Arkansas

IPM Implementer: Conetoe Family Life Center, Conetoe, NC

Pulling Together: Mosquito BEACONS Working Group,

Future Leader: Xavier Martini, University of Florida, IFAS

Master’s Graduate Students (Joint Awardees):
Emma Volk, NC State
Julian Cosner, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Doctoral Graduate Student: Kelly Carruthers, University of Florida

2022 Stories

Pest Management Strategic Plans and Crop Profiles

Cucumber Crop Profile (North Carolina)

Six contributors from North Carolina State University detailed worker activities; production practices, counties, and facts; pests including insects, pathogens, weeds, nematodes, and mites. Each pest is outlined by name (common and scientific), importance, symptoms, chemical controls, products/brands, biological controls, physical controls, and cultural controls.

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Journal Article: Integrated Pest Management Data for Regulation, Research, and Education; Crop Profiles and Pest Management Strategic Plans

Published on April 29, 2022 in the Journal of IPM and led by Robin Boudwin, this article addresses a current gap in the literature, history, definition, contents, and purposes of Pest Management Strategic Plans (PMSPs) and Crop Profiles (CPs), and their contribution to the field of IPM. Additionally, there is a description of the data storage for these documents in the National IPM Database, the process of creating these documents, and future directions for IPM data. See also the article in Entomology Today.

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2021

November 2021: Organics in IPM, Funding Opportunity through USDA-NIFA’s OREI Program
Speaker: Mathieu Ngouajio – USDA-NIFA

October 2021: Hemp in the South
Katelyn Kesheimer, Alabama Cooperative Extension
Kadie Britt, Post-Doc Scholar, UC-Riverside, Previous Friends of IPM Award Winner

September 2021: Box Tree Moth, Identification and Regulatory Information
Steven Long, Assistant Director | State Plant Regulatory Official, Department of Plant Industry, Clemson University
Allen Proxmire, USDA-APHIS

2022

May 2022: The Sugarcane/Sorghum aphid Invasion in American Sorghum: Updates and Future Directions
Raul F. Medina, Texas A&M

April 2022: Cotton Leafroll Dwarf Virus
Dr. Kassie Conner, Dr. Austin Hagan, Dr. Amanda Strayer-Scherer

March 2022: Mosquito BEACONS: Biodiversity Enhancement And Control of Non-native Species
Bryan Giordano and Dan Killingsworth

January 2022: Reframing the Narrative Around Food and Agriculture with the Farming and Food Narrative Project
Michael Rozyne

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Publications

Cucumber Crop Profile 2022