C2-Lincaster Farming. Saturday, February 14, 1998
ROCHESTER, N.Y. A dedi
cated crop consultant and an inno
vative scientist were honored at
the NYS Horticultural Society
meeting on Jan. 22 for their
achievements in integrated pest
management (IPM).
Elizabeth Graeper Thomas,
who owns Liz Thomas Orchard
Consulting, and David Gadoury,
senior research associate at the
New York State AgriculturaTEx
periment Station, received their
awards from IPM Program direc
tor James Tette.
Half a dozen state IPM awards
are presented each year to indivi
duals or groups showing leader
ship in biological, cultural, physi
cal, and chemical tools that mini
mizes economic, health, and
environmental risks. According to
Tette. the purpose of the award is
to “honor people for developing
new IPM methods or for sharing
IPM with others.”
Thomas, a crop consultant since
1982, works with commercial ap
ple growers in Wayne County
whose farms range from IS to 600
acres. One of her greatest contri
butions to the field of IPM has
been interpreting and putting to
use the information provided by
Cornell. Specifically, she has en
couraged growers to manage ap
ple scab by relying on rainfall
data, rather than by applying
calendar sprays. “We’ve fine
tuned the process,” said Thomas.
“I care about how much pesticide
is out there.”
Thomas also cares about grow
ers’ interests and is able to provide
what she calls a “bird’s-eye view”
of what works and what doesn’t.
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In previous years, by advocating a
“soft program” that is less detri
mental to beneficial organisms in
the orchard and by pinpointing the
timing of pesticide applications,
Thomas was able to save her
growers money. Today she thinks
everyone has to work harder to en
sure that new, softer pesticides are
economically viable. Thomas ad
vocates the use of predatory mites
and sometimes sees growers shift
perspective, changing their toler
ance for damage, or becoming
more willing to try biological con
trol.
Sixteen years of experience has
enabled Thomas to become well
respected by growers and Cornell
University staff and faculty. After
earning a bachelor’s from Cornell
University in 1981, she was hired
by Seneca Foods to be their pest
management supervisor for fruit
orchards. In later years, she
teamed up with consultant Jeff
Alicandro of AgrAssistance and
still cooperates closely with him.
Thomas is on the board of
directors of NEWA (the Northeast
Weather Association).
The second winner to receive
an IPM award is David M.
Gadoury, senior research asso
ciate in the Department of Plant
Pathology at Cornell University in
Geneva, N.Y. Gadoury works on
the biology and ecology of plant
pathogens, and how this informa
tion can be used to better manage
diseases of grapes and apples. He
emphasizes practicality, simpli
city, economy, and biologically
based solutions.
Focusing on powdery grape
mildew, Gadoury, together with
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the late R.C. Pearson, determined
how the fungus survived winter to
cause infection in the spring. They
then revised the grape disease
management program to target the
early part of the growing season,
when the disease is inconspicu
ous, but easier to control. This
new approach reduced the annual
number of fungicide applications
by as much as SO percent in some
cases, and simultaneously im
proved disease control. As a direct
result of these changes. New York
grape growers save nearly $1 mil
lion a year in lower fungicide
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
Penn State Cooperative Exten
sion has planned a series of tobac
co production meetings in Lancas
ter County during the last two
weeks of February.
The Erst series of meetings will
deal with tobacco pest manage
ment from the seedbed to the shed.
The meetings will include
information on weed control, in
sect control, and disease control,
especially blue mold.
Blue mold could become a ma
jor problem during the 1998 grow
ing season. Last summer’s weath
er offered the best control possible
for the disease dry weather
and the crop avoided a major dis
ease outbreak. Strategies to pre
vent and treat blue mold will be
discussed.
The tobacco mangement meet
ings are scheduled as follows:
• Feb. 16 starting at 1 p.m. in the
Summit Valley Elementary
School in New Holland.
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costs, and produce higher quality
of fruit
Gadoury’s research is expand
ing our knowledge of how other
major grape diseases, such as
downy mildew and black rot de
velop. New information about dis
eases developing in sequence as
they weaken a plant is helping
growers to select fungicides that
target each disease at the proper
time. Gadoury is also involved in
controlling powdery mildew with
beneficial mites.
In the field of apples, Gadoury
• Feb. 17 starting at? p.m. in the
Penn Manor High School Voca
tional Agriculture Classroom,
Millersville.
* Feb. 18 starting at 1 p.m. in the
Salisbury Township Municipal
Building, White Horse.
• Feb. 19 starting at 1 p.m. in the
Bart Township Fire Company,
Georgetown.
These meetings will have cate
gory pesticide credits.
A second series of meetings
will be held to discuss the growing
of tobacco transplants using the
“float system.” Many of the south
ern growing regions are already
using this system to produce more
than 7S percent of their trans
plants. The system saves labor
while producing excellent quality
plants. Transplants grown this
way start in the field with very lit
tle trouble. However, the system
offers many unique management
challenges.
Speaker for these meetings will
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worked on managing apple scab
for some 20 years, developing the
“Potential Ascospore Dose” prin
ciple and a simple heat-maturity
model that likewise predicts the
availability of inoculum. His work
on both apples and grapes has
been incorporated into disease
management programs in New
York, the northeast region, and
other parts of the world.
Gadour earned both an M.S.
and a Ph.D. in “Botany and Plant
Pathology” at the University of
New Hampshire.
Set
be Dr. Dewitt Gooden, South
Carolina state tobacco specialist
He has had many years experience
with the system and is well known
for his expertise.
Also on the program will be
James Winds on from the Univer
sity of Delaware, Georgetown Re
search Facility. He will be dis
cussing the experiences he has had
using the float system to produce
vegetable transplants.
The float culture meetings are
scheduled as follows:
• Feb. 23 starting at 1 p.m. in the
Leacock Township Building.
• Feb. 23 starting at 7 p.m. in the
Penn Manor High School Voca
tional Agriculture Room, Millers
ville.
• Feb. 24 starting at noon in the
Colerain Township Municipal
Building, Kirkwood.
For more information, contact
Bob Anderson at the Lancaster
County Extension Office, (717)
394-6851.
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