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Milestones
Project Timeline, Management and Reporting
The table below outlines the project’s milestones and the timeline for their accomplishment.
Activity Milestones |
Timeline |
Accomplishments |
| Form Executive Committee | Summer 2007 | The PMTP Executive Committee was formed in the summer of 2007. |
| Form Advisory Committee | Summer 2007 | The PMTP Advisory Committee was formed in the fall of 2007. |
| Establish Baseline: Conduct surveys of IPM practices used by growers and perceptions of farm labor & environmental communities about IPM technologies. | Winter of 2007 & Spring of 2008. | An ‘apple consultant survey’ was sent out in June (08) and the ‘apple grower survey’ will be sent out in late June or July of 2008. |
| IPM Adoption Working Group: Establish a working group of successful early adopters of IPM; identify essential activities, pitfals and future needs to sustain such programs. | Winter of 2007 and continuing to add new participants as adoption increases. | A group of early IPM adopters was assembled in January of 2008 to identify barriers to adoption of new IPM technologies and develop strategies for working with IU groups to increase adoption. |
| Education Efforts: Conduct intensive, focused educational workshops on tools and methods to implement OP transition pest management programs. | Winters of 2007, 2008 & 2009 - continuing in off-season as needed. | Educational efforts have been conducted through Implementation Unit (IU) meetings – 42 IU meetings averaging 1.5 hours in length were held in the Spring of 2008. |
| Education Products: Develop educational materials (manuals, web-based products, etc.) that support the implementation of OP transition programs for all Washington fruit crops. | Initital efforts in winter of 2007-08 with revisions updated and new information added as it becomes available over the next two years. | Over 400 IU handbooks have been distributed; Six PMTP newsletters were distributed between March 15 and June 15; The PMTP web page was developed in December of 2007 and continues to be the most up to date source for PMTP information |
| Implementation: Carry out an action plan for the pest management transition program. | Establish IUs: winter 2007-08; Expand IUs in second season. |
Fourteen IUs, distributed geographically across Washington State, were formed in the winter/ spring of 2008. |
| Assessment: Document change in practices using TEAM assessment, environmental indices and surveys of farm labor and environmental partners about changes in the apple IPM system. | 2008 production season and continues until transition goals are achieved. | Dr. Nadine Lehrer was hired in May of 2008 to work on assessment of PMTP objectives. |
| Reporting: Annual report at the end of each production season. Final report at project end. | June 2008 & 2009 and final report at project end. | The first PMTP interim report was submitted to WSDA in June of 2008. |
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