D32—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 26,1981
COLUMBIA, Mo. “Timing is
everything when it domes to
managing pests. J
“And the weather-monitoring
network we’re developing, plus the
integrated pest management
program, will give us juit the one
two punch we need to do the job,”
said Rodney Ward, University of
Missouri-Columbia research en
tomologist.
So far, the weather network
includes 34 stations across
Missouri and 24 more ( stations in
nine surrounding states—all
gathering whether data to be fed
into a computer.
Ultimate goal: Use weather to
hit pests, weeds and diseases when
and where it hurts.
Wayne Decker, chairman of the
UMC Department of Atmospheric
Science, and Mitchell Roof,
coordinator of the UMC extension
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Loysville, Pa
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New Bloomfield. Pa
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Duncannon, Pa
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Experts use weather to control crop pests
Integrated Pest Management
Program, are working with
Rodney Ward and the National
Weather Service to forecast when
pest problems are likely and to tell
farmers the best time to take
action.
“The computerized weather
monitoring network plus pest
scouting services by private
consultants, agribusiness
cooperatives or farm families
themselves will really help us stay
on top of pests,” Ward said.
The network will have two
completely automatic university
operated weather collecting
stations, one at Linneus and
another outside Columbia. These
two stations will record hourly and
daily soil temperature at the four
inch depth (bare soil), tem
perature five feet above the
ground, wind velocity and direc-
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Exhibitor: Treva Whitmoyer
Buyer: Commonwealth
National Bank, New
Bloomfield
LESH MOTORS
Newport, Pa
LOCUST POINT QUARRIES
Mechanicsburg, Pa
FICKES SILO’S
Newville. Pa
DALE McGUIRE INSURANCE
Duncannon Pa
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newport. Pa
LANCASTER STOCKYARDS
c/o WALTER M. DUNLAP
Lancaster, Pa
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of LOYSVILLE
1 Loysville, Pa
SHEAFFER - WEARY CHEVROLET
Loysville Pa
HERMAN KRAFT JR.
Newport Pa
SMITH FEED MILLS
Newport & Slain Pa
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Mechanicsburg Pa
HELLERS MACHINE SHOP
Newport Pa
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Loysville Pa
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Newport Pa
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Newport Pa
tion, rainfall, relative humidity,
solar radiation, soil moisture, and
leaf wetness.
These and the other stations will
be tied into a computer which will
have information about the
maturity and stages of insects and
crop growth phenology (natural
phenomena that affect plant and
insect life cycles).
“In a year like this one,
phenology, becomes very im
portant. With the mild winter and
warm dry conditions turning to a
cool, wet spring, this has been a
fantastic year for insects,” Ward
said.
“In some cases where we
depended on natural controls to
Vonp pests in ch or> k, wpafhcr
got them out of sync and Mother
Nature didn’t get the job done. ”
Ward said that insects, just like
plants, slow or speed up biological
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processes, depending on the
temperature. So, just spraying
according to a calendar isn’t
enough; weather has to be con
sidered or farmers will apply in
secticides too early or late to get
best results.
“Our computerized weather
network will give farmers the
knowhow they need to, apply
pesticides of the best kind, both
from the standpoint of economics
and effectiveness,” Ward said.
Just looking at a thermometer
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clusions about insect development
and control. For example, Ward
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throw the hatching time off by as
much as a week.
Southern facing slopes are much
warmer than those facing north, so
the control of an insect like the
alfalfa weevil might have to be
managed to take that into account.
Ward is working with the new
UMC forage entomologist, Rick
Brandenburg, in a special effort to
use weather information for more
effective control of the alfalfa
weevil.
“With this computerized
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