PMSP for Northern Wheat

Priorities

Category Rank Pest Type Pest Crop Stage Priority
Extension/Outreach 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Education on improved disease/weed/insect forecasting models. These models need to be based on available weather station data, and the system to provide widely available and locally specific weather station data needs to be improved. Where possible, models and available data need to be region wide, not state by state.
Extension/Outreach 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Education on the use of production guides that contain specific recommendations for varieties at locations throughout the region need to be developed. Examples include: trials on varying soil types, textures, pH, micronutrients, environmental factors, disease and insect resistance, etc. that affect specific varieties. Include insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and fertility and fertilizer management in the educational programs.
Extension/Outreach 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Increased education on rotation of pesticides and pesticide modes of action for management of current resistance and avoidance of future resistant pest populations.
Extension/Outreach 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot It is very important to keep web sites up to date with information on current situations and conditions. Web sites and other electronic delivery methods for pest alerts, etc. are
Extension/Outreach 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot There is a need for greater distribution of information to alert growers of the potential for risk of sporadic pests to occur. Wide distribution and education on the use of monitoring, prediction and modeling data is needed.
Extension/Outreach 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Community education on pesticide and nutrient management issues is needed. Current efforts focus primarily at the producer level, not the community level.
Extension/Outreach 7 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Increased education on tank mixing issues, including compatibility, antagonism, etc. of potential tank-mix partners is needed.
Extension/Outreach 8 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Increased education and awareness of worker safety issues – including insecticide, herbicide, and fungicide use are concerns. These issues are important for handler, mixer/loader, applicators and field workers/scouts/consultants.
Extension/Outreach 9 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Education on direct seeding and minimum tillage and their role and fit into production systems is needed.
Regulatory 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot The registration for 2, 4-D needs to be maintained for use on wheat for the entire region. Continued availability of 2, 4-D products is critical for effective weed control and resistance management.
Regulatory 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Regional coordination of timely Section 18’s and 24 (c) requests is a priority. Regional coordination of these requests has the potential to reduce redundant workload, increase availability of products and increase timeliness of these requests.
Regulatory 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Use crop groupings for pesticide registrations whenever possible to get products available for all types of wheat. The IR-4 program uses crop groupings in the research conducted on pesticides. Following this model would potentially allow for wider availability of certain pesticides.
Regulatory 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Full federal use labels (Section 3 labels) for newer triazole fungicides, such as Folicur, are needed for scab (Fusarium) management. Current availability of certain products is only through special labels (Section 18 and Section 24 (c) labels), which are in force only for short time periods and must be continually renewed.
Regulatory 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Market segregation of grain is a current and future issue. There is a need for guidelines and uniformity (harmonization) of testing procedures and standards for quality, dockage, etc.
Regulatory 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot There is a need to maintain pesticide options for a crop, such as wheat, where use is sporadic but occasional significant needs arise. Overall, when needed, pesticide options must be available.
Regulatory 7 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot There is a need for the federal Risk Management Agency to reevaluate rules for crop insurance. An example of the need is for the timely investigation and approval that is needed for crop destruction if a disease such as wheat streak mosaic in young wheat fields becomes a critical issue in certain areas.
Regulatory 8 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot There is a need to maintain atrazine for use in rotational programs for wheat. Atrazine is not used directly on wheat but is used for control of volunteer wheat in certain production systems in the region. Regionally, this use is mostly limited to the wheat-fallow production systems where it is not in a corn rotation, is used at low levels and is used in areas where water issues are not an concern because aquifers are very deep (as much as down 300 feet). This production system was described in southwestern Nebraska, but may be used in other areas of similar climate (western and southwestern areas) within the region.
Research 1 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Improved disease/weed/insect forecasting models. These models need to be based on available weather station data. The system to provide widely available and locally specific weather station data needs to be improved. Where possible, models and available data need to be region wide, not state by state.
Research 2 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Increased genetic resistance to emerging rust strains and scab (Fusarium) in wheat varieties. This is especially important in durum wheat. Disease resistance in wheats will only widely acceptable if top yield potential and agronomic qualities are maintained.
Research 3 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Packaging resistance to diseases as well as resistance to herbicides and insects into the wheat seed.
Research 4 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot An economically viable solution to winter annual weed problems (IE: jointed goatgrass, downy brome and feral rye) in summer fallow/winter wheat production areas needs to be developed.
Research 5 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Consistent economic threshold models for insects and diseases need to be developed or refined. This was especially a priority for the barley yellow dwarf aphid vector.
Research 6 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Cultivars under development must maintain or improve competitiveness when compared with agronomic and quality traits of current cultivars.
Research 7 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Problems with volunteer wheat management in future Roundup-Ready wheat production systems need to be addressed. Availability of alternative pesticide products in these systems needs additional investigation. a. Use of all future herbicide tolerant varieties in rotational management systems needs to be investigated further.
Research 8 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Production guides with specific recommendations for varieties at locations throughout the region need to be developed. Examples include: trials on varying soil types, textures, pH, micronutrients, environmental factors, disease and insect resistance, etc. that affect specific varieties.
Research 9 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Improved drought tolerance and resistance in new cultivars.
Research 10 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Better fungicides for scab (Fusarium) control in all wheat production systems.
Research 11 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot Documentation of protein changes, quality changes, etc, that will possibly be present in a future Roundup-Ready wheat or other biotech-based wheat production system.
Research 12 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot There is a need for improved understanding and management of the wheat curl mite and its role in wheat streak mosaic management across the entire region.
Research 13 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot The future potential and impact of a known new biotype of the Russian wheat aphid that is coming into the region from the southwest needs to be documented.
Research 14 All 6- to 12-Inch Shoot A “systems” management approach with respect to rotations (with biotech and without biotech varieties), Farm Bill requirements, cultivar selection, etc. needs to be investigated.