From the Network
On-Farm Research Webcasts Help Make
Science-Based Management Decsions
Extension
and agribusiness professionals use on-farm
research to make better management
decisions. Presentations from an
On-Farm Research Conference, held at
Iowa State University (ISU), are now
available for online viewing. Organizers
hope the new web resource will provide
agriculture professionals another valuable
tool in making informed farming decisions.
“Many growers and ag practitioners are
inundated with data, which they use to make
critical decisions about production
practices,” said Daren Mueller, ISU
extension specialist and lead event
organizer. “We want them to be able to
recognize and understand scientifically
sound crop production research that will
help promote wise crop production and
protection decisions.” The webcasts cover
three main subject areas: the basics of
on-farm research design, data collection
methods, and ways to improve data quality.
PMN Joint Executive Committee Meets
Plant Management Network is governed by a
joint committee representing the
American
Society of Agronomy (ASA),
Crop Science
Society of America (CSSA), and
American Phytopathological Society (APS). The
committee held its annual planning meeting,
August 17-18, at PMN headquarters. Current
Members are Chair Todd Peterson, ASA; Howard
Brown, ASA; Roch Gaussoin, CSSA, Tom Gerik,
CSSA; Dennis Gross, APS; Brian Olson, APS;
Bill Hutchison, ESA (ex officio); incoming
members Ken Barbarick, ASA, and Ray Martyn,
APS; and staff Fran Katz and Miles Wimer.
PMN's Annual Partnership Campaign Extended
The 2009 Plant Management Network New
Partners Campaign is proving very
successful. The recent partnership drive,
which has now been extended through
September, has thus far garnered six new
members: American Seed Trade Association,
Bayer CropScience,
BIOREBA,
Mosaic,
New
Mexico State University, and the
University
of Alaska-Fairbanks. They join the ranks of PMN’s now nearly 70 partners. Partners
support our not-for-profit mission to
enhance the health, management, and
production of agricultural and horticultural
crops. Thinking of joining? Please, act now!
For details, contact
partners@plantmanagementnetwork.org.
Forage and Grazinglands Publishes
Statement of Impact
Authors
considering publishing in
Forage and Grazinglands will be
interested in reading the journal’s new
impact statement. The statement, written
by F&G editor Michael Casler and the
ASA and CSSA editors-in-chief Warren Dick
and Craig Roberts, defines the quality
standards and relevance by which the journal
may be judged. Peer-reviewed articles are
also awarded the imprint, above.
New Trials Added to Plant Disease
Management Reports
One hundred sixteen new trials have been
added to
Plant Disease Management Reports
(PDMR), 2009. A total of 592 efficacy
trials are housed in this volume. PDMR
offers reports on the latest fungicides,
nematicides, and biological controls. There
are now more than 5,000 reports from this
and past issues of PDMR, B&C Tests,
and F&N Tests.
Please Recommend PMN to Your Library
Is your library on PMN’s
list of institutional subscribers? If
not, please recommend a subscription to your
librarian. PMN serves a full range of
agricultural and plant-science disciplines
with its four peer-reviewed journals, field
trials, webcasts, proceedings, image
collections, and databases—all for a single
price. Please,
contact your library today in support of
this not-for-profit resource. Subscription
information is available
online.
Plant Health Progress Editor’s Pick
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Plains Region, 2008
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