Science is part dedication to lifelong learning. The IPM Planning Committee will host an IPM Evaluation Training workshop and Managing Rodents in an Ever-Changing Environment Short Course at Paradise Point on Thursday, March 6th.
This hands-on workshop will provide participants with practical skills to analyze Integrated Pest Management (IPM) adoption using USDA NASS Chemical Use Survey and USGS Pesticide National Synthesis Project (PNSP) datasets. Through step-by-step exercises, attendees will learn methods for extracting, interpreting, and applying data to calculate key risk assessment metrics such as eco-efficiency and total applied toxicity. The focus will be on skill-building and data analysis techniques, ensuring participants gain experience working directly with real-world datasets. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops or other devices to fully engage in the interactive exercises.
This Short Course will cover basic biology to ensure everyone understands the three species that are most common and what signs to look for when you suspect rats or mice. The session will also cover a variety of management techniques from the latest in exclusion methods, using sensing device data to enhance your success rates with management, using dogs as a biological control method and how the updated rodent risk mitigation rules. FSMA has been in effect now for a few years, however, many food inspectors need to know what to look for when mice and rats can be an issue.
This session is designed for public health professionals, registered sanitarians, code enforcement officers and pest management professionals.
Topics to be covered:
• Biology – life cycle and diseases associated with mice and rats.
• Cultural and Sanitation control measures.
• Physical and Mechanical control measures (exclusion and trapping)
• Biological control measure – dog
• Chemical Control measures – new rodenticide rules and proper placement of bait stations in food handling areas
• Education
Is there a program, process or team-building topic that would benefit those in the IPM and associated industries?
Turn it into a professional development workshop and create an enriching, learning opportunity for IPM Symposium attendees. Proposals are now being considered. Contact Kelly Adams or Marnie McMullin.
Currently being accepted.
Include a brief description of the workshop, tentative agenda, room requirements (table set-up, a/v needs) and suggested audience size.
Kelly Adams (kadams@ipminstitute.org)
Marnie McMullin (mmcmullin@ipminstitute.org)
