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Patch burn grazing and pollinator services

North American rangelands are managed primarily for livestock production, yet they have enormous potential to conserve native biodiversity while maintaining livestock productivity. Although pollinators are critical to the maintenance of healthy rangelands, livestock production, ecosystem services, and economies, they are a group of wildlife of greatest conservation concern that would benefit directly from changes in current rangeland management practices.

Hessian fly surveillance and smart-traps

The Hessian fly, Mayetiola destructor, is a major pest of wheat, reducing yields in many of the major wheat producing countries around the world. There are no documented reports of this pest in Australia yet increasing efficiency in surveillance strategies are important for early detection and mitigation. With an expansive land mass and multiple ports of entry, efficient and cost effective strategies are needed to monitor for this exotic pest.

Soybean aphid IPM in the North Central US

The subject of this proposal is research and outreach on the soybean aphid, Aphis glycines. The soybean aphid is the most damaging insect pest to soybean production in North America (Ragsdale et al. 2011). The advent of soybean aphid as a U.S. crop pest in 2000 has significantly changed soybean production practices in the North Central region. 77% of soybean acreage or more are now scouted for insect pests, a 40-fold increase since the introduction of soybean aphid (Song and Swinton 2009).

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