CtLartcaster Fanning. Saturday, March 14, 1998
IPM Awards Given At
NYS Vegetable Conference
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. Three
awards for outstanding work in in
tegrated pest management were
presented at the 1998 NYS Vege
table Conference.
The winners growers Tim
and Colleen Stanton, private con
sultant Richard Wikiman, and ve
getable IPM coordinator Curtis
Petzoldt—have been establishing
innovative IPM practices for the
Northeast since the 1980 s.
Half a dozen NYS IPM awards
are presented each year to indivi
duals or groups showing leader
ship in minimizing economic,
health, and environmental risks.
According to IPM Program direc
tor James Tette, the purpose of the
award is to “honor people for de
veloping new IPM methods or for
sharing IPM with others.”
The Stantons practice IPM on a
family farm in Feura Bush, N.Y.,
that they have owned together for
11 years. They devote nearly 400
acres to production of hay and
other Held crops, small fruits, ve
getables. and greenhouse plants.
Tim Stanton, who is in charge
of most of the daily farm opera
tions, uses rotation, resistant
varieties, pest traps, conservation
tillage, and a host of other IPM
methods. He is willing to try new
ideas and cooperates regularly
with extension faculty and staff
affiliated with Cornell University.
In recent years he has helped to
develop the use of rye mulch for
pumpkin production, tested pow
dery mildew-resistant pumpkins,
participated in pumpkin variety
trials, and hosted informational
twilight meetings for growers. He
has also conducted trials for re
ducing bird damage on sweet com
and has evaluated biological con
trols to combat sweet com insects.
Colleen Stanton and her sister
operate a seasonal form stand,
“Our Family’s Harvest,” in New
Scotland, N.Y. This retail store is
supplied with produce that is
wholesaled from Stanton’s Feura
Farm, and Colleen speaks regular
ly with customers about how the
food is grown. “I don’t know how
anybody couldn’t get in to IPM
these days,” said Colleen. “If
you’re not using IPM, you’re
probably throwing money away.”
Colleen regularly monitors with
sticky cards in their two green
houses.
Richard Wildman, president of
Agricultural Consulting Services,
Inc., might be considered a mod
em pioneer in the fiel of IPM. His
business, begun in 1983, was one
of the earliest private crop-con
sulting firms in the state. Today,
Wildman’s full-time staff of 10
swells during the growing season,
when they offer production advice
on some 70,000 acres of vege
tables and field crops.
Agricultural Consulting Ser
vices, Inc. serves growers in New
York, Pennsylvania, and Massa
chusetts. According to Curt Pet
zoldt, assistant director of the
NYS IPM Program, Wildman’s
firm has helped growers of pro
cessing sweet-corn reduce num
bers of pesticide applications by
up to SO percent in New York.
Wildman’s work with tomato pro
cessors has also resulted in sub
stantial savings in pesticide use,
both economically and environ
mentally.
Wildman originated the con
cept of fully integrated crop pro
duction, which embraces nutrient
management planning and soil re
sources in a “whole farm” ap
poach. He has also developed on
form crop management software
that helps growers with record
keeping and other tasks. Wildman
says one of his greatest contri
butions has been “bringing IPM
into a format that’s readily and in
tensively adopted by growers.”
To improve scouting tech
niques on snap beans, cabbage,
and other vegetables, Wildman
shares his knowledge with Exten
sion faculty and staff at Cornell
University. He also serves on the
IPM Commodity Working Group
for Vegetables, where he evalu
ates PM research and implemen
tation proposals.
Wildman studied horticultural
science at Colorado State Univer
sity, graduating with a bachelor’s
degree in 1979. He is on the exe
cutive boards of the National Alli
ance of Independent Crop Con
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Curtis Petzoldt, assistant direc
tor of the NYS IPM Program and
vegetable IPM coordinator for the
state, is rarely content with the sta
tus quo. With one foot in a cab
bage field and the other in the fu
ture, he encourages practices that
change the ways farmers and con
sumers do business.
In 1996, Petzoldt and area IPM
educator Timothy Weiglc founded
die Northeast Weather Associa
tion a nonprofit membership
organization that provides grow
ers with timely weather data and
pest forecasts. The specific in
formation helps producers deter
mine when diseases and insects
need to be controlled, and whether
sprays can be delayed or elimin
ated. Said Petzoldt. “Membership
in the Northeast Weather Associa
tion grew 56 percent between the
first and second year. In the com
ing year, we will offer weather
based pest and crop models for
producers of ornamentals and
field crops.”
In 1997, Petzoldt and his col
leagues sought to manage Euro
pean com borer on fresh-market
sweet com by releasing micro
scopic beneficial wasps and ap
plying Bt (a biological insecti
cide). With these practices, they
averted up to three applications of
chemical pesticides and achieved
marketable quality corn. This re
search is part of a multi-year inter
disciplinary project comparing
four vegetable growing systems
(conventional. IPM present, IPM
future, and organic) to assess
which practices can be incorpor
ated into present and future crop
ping systems. Anthony Shelton,
associate director of the New
York State Agricultural Experi
ment Station, says “Petzoldt has
doggedly pursued the develop
ment of IPM for vegetables and
other crops. He is widely re
spccted by those who work with
him, not only in New York, but
also nationally.”
In 1998, Petzoldt will take pan
in national meetings that focus not
only on IPM labeling of foods, but
how labeling could cross state
lines. The New York State IPM
Program, with Petzoldt at the
helm, has responded to private
sector demands for IPM-grown
products for several years. Weg
mans Food Markets, for example,
now carries nearly 14 kinds of ve
getables with the NYSIPM label
Petzoldt has worked for more than
a decade with growers, private
consultants, and private industry
to develop IPM guidelines, en
abling crops to be grown in ways
that are economically and en
vironmentally sound.
Prior to joining the IPM Pro
gram in 1985, Petzoldt was a rep
resentative for Lilly Research La
boratories and Elanco Products.
He holds a master’s degree and a
doctorate in plant pathology from
the University of California (Da
vis) and a bachelor’s degree in
biology from Bales College.