Southern IPM Hour Webinar Series
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The Southern IPM Hour presents research, issues, and programs in Integrated Pest Management from the Southern Region of the United States. The IPM Hour typically takes place on the first Wednesday of the month at 1pm Eastern, but some sessions are special sessions at different days and times.
Upcoming Webinars
Building Geo-Spatial Databases to Improve the Precision of Cover Crops as an IWM Tool
PI: Muthu V. Bagavathiannan, Texas A&M Agrilife
December 4, 1pm Eastern
This is an ARDP Project.
Past Webinars
Click on the links or video below to view video recordings.
Recordings:
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
Spring 2024
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
Fall 2023
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
Spring 2023
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
Fall 2022
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
Spring 2022
August 2022: IPM in Tea
Lorena Lopez, Virginia Tech
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
Fall 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
Spring 2021
April 7, 2021: Ambrosia Beetle Biology, Monitoring, and Management
Christopher Ranger, USDA-ARS
March 3, 2021: A MultiState Approach To Quantifying And Managing Insecticide Resistance In Plutella Xylostella The Diamondback Moth In Cole Crops
David G. Riley, UGA Research Foundation Inc.
February 2021: Extension IPM in Arkansas
Glenn Studebaker, University of Arkansas Extension Service
January 2021:
Crop Protection and Pest Management Extension Implementation Program for South Carolina
Francis Reay-Jones, Clemson University
Statewide Extension IPM Coordination Program for Auburn University and Alabama Cooperative Extension System 2017-2020
David Held, Auburn University
Fall 2020
December 2020:
Integrating biological control in management of sugarcane aphids in sorghum
Ada Szczepaniec, Texas A&M AgriLife Research
Toward near-real-time forecasts of airborne crop pests as a component of sustainable areawide integrated pest management
Hsiao-Hsuan "Rose" Wang, Texas A&M University
November 2020:
The Texas IPM and Extension Program: Meeting the Demand of a Diverse State
David Kerns , Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Extension IPM programs in Kentucky
Ric Bessin, University of Kentucky