Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network Delivers Strategic IPM Information to Agricultural and Urban Audiences
ISSN 2158-9429
Volume 9, Issue 2 - December 2016
Editor: Linda Chalker-Scott
Abstract
- PNWPestalert.net was created in 2002 by University of Idaho and Oregon State University Extension faculty. This unique network system utilizes a broad base of partners to create and distribute alerts to agricultural and more recently, residential subscribers, delivering timely, research-based Integrated Pest Management (IPM) information on the emergence, identification and management of common pests and diseases of concern through email and text messages. Twelve years of survey data show that users increased their knowledge of IPM, adopted recommended IPM strategies, reduced pesticide use by 6 percent, and minimized adverse pest and pesticide impacts on the environment and human health in the region.
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