Southern IPM Hour Webinar Series

 

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

Date Title Speaker Registration
May  1, 2024 Keep It SIMPLE:  A Sweetpotato Weevil Integrated Management Plan for Environmental and Economic Sustainability Jeff Davis, LSU AgCenter Register
June 5, 2024 Homeowner IPM Faith Oi, Univ. of Florida

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Past Webinars

Click on the links or video below to view video recordings.

 

 

Recordings:

 

Spring 2024

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

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