IPM Working Groups
IPM Working Groups bring together regional stakeholders around vital issues in the Northeast. These ad hoc committees work on topics specific to an IPM setting or crop—they develop or update priority lists, plan multistate projects, and conduct outreach campaigns across the region. Working group members include researchers, educators, IPM practitioners, agricultural producers and consultants, government personnel, and representatives environmental groups or other nonprofits. Funded through the Center’s IPM Partnership Grants Program, these groups represent the views of stakeholders while passing information from the Center to their own organizations and peers.
Current IPM Working Groups in the Northeast
Past IPM Working Groups in the Northeast
- Collaborative to Promote IPM in Child Care Facilities (funded 2011–2012)
- Community (funded in 2011 as the Sustainable Landscapes IPM Working Group)
- Evaluation (funded 2009–2010)
- Fruit (funded through 2004)
- Greenhouse and Ornamentals (funded through 2004)
- Hops (funded 2011–2012)
- Invasive Species (funded through 2012)
- Livestock and Field Crops (funded through 2005)
- New England IPM Collaboration
- New England Small Ruminant (funded through 2013)
- Public Health (merged with the Community IPM Working Group)
- Red Tomato—Eco Apple (funded 2006–2012)
- Region-Wide Pollinator (funded 2011–2012; a new Pollinator Working Group formed in 2014)
- Schools (funded through 2013)
- Slug Management (Mid-Atlantic High Residue Cropping Systems) (funded 2011–2012)
- Small Farms (funded through 2012)
- Small Fruit (funded 2009–2013)
- Sustainable Landscapes (funded through 2012)
- Tree Fruit (funded 2010–2013)
- Tree Fruit Sooty Blotch/Fly Speck (funded in 2009 by the USDA — Read more about their work)
- Vegetables (funded through 2012) (additional archived webpages)