2022
2022 Western Minnesota Soybean IPM Survey & Ag Student Training Program
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
ExtensionIndustry outreach
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Angie Peltier, University of Minnesota
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
10-15-44-22012
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council
$26,332
Leveraged Funding (Non-Checkoff):
To provide a more diverse summer experience for this program’s interns and to share costs, we also sought and obtained funding from the Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council for a similar small grains-version of the soybean survey.
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Institution Funded:
University of Minnesota
$26,332
Brief Project Summary:

The IPM Survey was funded and conducted for the first time in 2015 and UMN Extension would like to continue the IPM soybean survey initiative and will hire of three summer interns to help conduct pest and disease surveys in commercial soybean fields. The program will deliver timely crop updates based on field observations with an emphasis on soybean aphid, two-spotted spider mite and other crop pest conditions as they develop. This will help crop managers to make sound management and economic decisions. This project is coordinated with similar efforts in North Dakota.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension specialists, ag retailers

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

This project will deliver real-time in-season information regarding the incidence and severity of pest populations and disease pressure in soybean fields in western Minnesota through the development of data summaries and the presentation of maps of data from recent survey findings. This information will be shared through multiple means to reach western Minnesota soybean producers, including through online blog and newsletter articles and email list-servs, ag radio programs and press releases sent to print media venues.
Pests and diseases of note will also be shared during the winter meetings season at county soybean and corn growers association meetings, at the Prairie Grains Conference soybean research reporting session, the Norman County Crops Show, through the print publication, “On-farm Cropping Trials Northwest & West Central Minnesota and Minnesota Wheat Research Review” distributed to farmers and ag service providers at the Prairie Grains Conference, and at Minnesota private pesticide applicators recertification workshops.

Final Project Results

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View uploaded report Word file

View uploaded report 2 Word file

2022 Program.
Eight years since the soybean IPM survey began in 2015, the 2022 survey took place primarily in counties in northwestern Minnesota due to significant staffing issues detailed in the full 4th quarter report. Consequently, a single NDSU ag student working as a scout visited 108 soybean fields over 34 scouting days between June 27 and August 18; scouting time was shared between scouting wheat and soybean in her first week of scouting soybean. In each field the scout growth staged the crop, swept field edges for grasshoppers, Similar to in previous years, the Minnesota team collaborated with the NDSU Extension IPM program to produce bistate pest maps that were used for in-person Extension programs and in print (Figure 1; Soybean aphid incidence (%), Aug 8-19, 2022; map url: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tMDUdn6XEmBKapTr-PMaEmJ_sfFG454t/view?usp=sharing).

Extension efforts funded by IPM Survey.
Four in-season online IPM articles related to this survey were each distributed via MN Crop News to 3,146 people and one online IPM article related to the survey was distributed via Cropping Issues in NW MN to 718 people, for a combined 1,949 page views. Two live Strategic Farming: Field Notes sessions covered IPM-related topics, including IDC on July 6 (55 webinar attendees, 59 podcast downloads) and late season insects on July 27 (61 webinar attendees, 53 podcast downloads). The Strategic Farming: Let’s Talk Crops program covered new and emerging soybean pests on Mar 22, 2023 with a total of 109 people attending live and 92 folk viewing the video on YouTube. In-person programs included the July 20 & 21 UMN Field School (St. Paul, MN, ~60 participants), Farmfest (Redwood Falls, MN, booth, ~300 people), Dec 8 Prairie Grains Conference (Grand Forks, ND, ~65 attendees), Jan 16, 30 and Feb 3 Small Grains Update programs (Morris, MN, 15 participants; McIntosh, MN, 25 participants; Roseau, MN, 21 participants, respectively) and Feb 8 & 9 Best of the Best Conferences (Grand Forks, ND, 170 participants; Moorhead, MN, 132 participants, respectively). Eight radio programs at KROX (Crookston) and KTRF (Thief River Falls) covered the survey, scouting, and IPM-related issues: May 26, June 16 & July 28 at both KTRF and KROX, Aug 18 (KTRF) and Aug 26 (KROX). Print summary report of survey was distributed at Prairie Grains Conference and at joint MSRPC & MWRPC-sponsored Small Grains Update programs in the Red River Valley.

Leveraged funding.
This survey has historically leveraged other sources of funding to both provide a full-season, multiple-crop summer experience and to cover the costs of the scouting program. In 2022, similar to past years the Minnesota Wheat Research & Promotion Council (MWRPC) funded the primarily wheat portion of the scout’s salary and fringe vehicle rental and mileage costs. The 2023 IPM survey will also be covered by Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council and MWRPC, and the Minnesota Rapid Agricultural Response Fund will also contribute to the scouting effort to determine the geographic range of the newest soybean pest in Minnesota – the soybean tentiform leafminer.

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.