EDITOR’S NOTE:  Please find included the workshop agenda.

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For immediate release: April 15, 2004

Grasshopper Management Workshop – Rapid City April 28, 2004

The US Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, (USDA-APHIS, PPQ) in conjunction with the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Pennington County Weed and Pest are sponsoring a one-day workshop for rangeland grasshopper integrated pest management.  The workshop is scheduled for April 28, 2004 in Rapid City at the Walt Taylor Extension Building, 601 Centre Street.  Drs. Alex Latchininsky and Scott Schell from the University of Wyoming and USDA-APHIS, PPQ will conduct the workshop.  

The workshop will focus on a three phase approach to grasshopper integrated pest management (IPM) with emphasis on outbreak suppression, intervention and prevention.  The goal of the workshop is to provide ranchers, weed and pest personnel and land managers with control and management strategies that are proven effective as well as cost efficient in addressing grasshopper outbreaks.  In Wyoming, Drs. Latchininski and Schell have demonstrated that less pesticide applied to reduced areas has provided significant grasshopper reduction utilizing an IPM technique commonly referred to as RAAT’s (Reduced Agent Area Treatments).

South Dakota Grasshopper Workshop Agenda April 28, 2004

I. Introduction: The 3-Phase Approach to Grasshopper IPM          10:00-10:30

II. Grasshopper Outbreak Suppression: The Worst-Case Scenario

A. Reduced Agent-Area Treatments: Do More with Less          10:30-11:00

            -Situations where RAAT’s Might not be appropriate

B. Available Agents: Getting the Most Out of Our "Tools"

1. Liquids: Old (and New) Reliables          11:00-11:15

2. Solid Baits: What is Available?           11:15-11:30

3. Pathogens: The Weapons of the Future?           11:30-11:45

C. Non-target Effects: Reducing Risk          11:45-12:00

LUNCH BREAK 12:00-1:00

III. Grasshopper Outbreak Intervention

ATV-RAATs: Control for Grasshoppers you Control          1:00-1:30

IV. Grasshopper Outbreak Prevention

Grazing Management: More Grass, Fewer Grasshoppers          1:30-1:45

BREAK 1:45-2:00

V. NEPA Hurdles for Federal Involvement          1:45-2:00

VI. Information: The Foundation of IPM

A. New-and-Improved CARMA: Is it Worth Treating?v2:00-2:45

B. Sequential Binomial Sampling: 

Complex Name for an Easy Method          2:45-3:00

C. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 

Who's Who Among Grasshoppers          3:00-3:15

VII. Evaluation of the Workshop: What We Did Right/Wrong          3:15-3:30

Warne Chemical Company and ATV mounted spray equipment