KY-IPM Area of Emphasis/Title: Final Report, October 1, 2009. Project Leader: Please describe your county’s Extension IPM activities and outcomes associated with this area of emphasis. Please limit each field to 150 words or less. Provide a brief introduction to your area of emphasis progress report. Use one or more of the following four areas, please give a brief report (less than one page per topic, a paragraph will do) of your IPM project for FY 08. A. Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment (Describe increases in the use of IPM practices that resulted from program activities) B. Benefits Achieved through IPM Technologies or Strategies (Note any major benefits resulting from program activities.) C. Dissemination of IPM Knowledge (Summarize the main groups of people reached and key IPM technologies promoted by program activities) D. Enhanced Stakeholder Collaboration (Highlight any new or expanded partnerships that developed which have had or are likely to have a significant impact on the program. Describe the status of activities articulated in the plan of action. Describe program activities completed and those still pending. Give the status of goals set for the project. How you met the goals and how you know they were met. Describe the status of planned cooperation and any new partnerships that have been forged since the plan of action was authored. 1. Please list the number of cooperators that worked on this project_______. (Cooperators -- Employees of universities (e.g., Extension Agents, Research and Extension faculty); government entities (e.g., Department of Agriculture officials), or other organization employees (e.g., growers, crop consultants, processors) who support the IPM program as part of their full time occupation. Cooperators are not paid from IPM funds, but cooperate on IPM projects as "part of their job." ) 2. Please list the number of volunteers that helped with this project____________ (Volunteers -- Volunteers cooperate with the IPM program, but not as "part of their job", e.g., farmers, consultants, ag/hort-industry, master gardeners, event volunteers etc). Describe progress toward planned changes in pest management behavior as a result of stakeholder participation in these activities. Provide an overview of major accomplishments and outcomes. Show how the IPM program benefits your clientele. Also, describe how you collected information to show how this year’s program activities addressed goals and targets set out for this area of emphasis in the plan of work. (Data collection methods might include casual observations, phone interviews, site visits or a more systematic approach such as field surveys and surveys of workshop participants. If the desired impacts articulated in the plan of action have changed, please indicate how. Explain any adjustments that had to be made to your Plan of Work and why. Describe challenges that the university and its cooperators are working on to overcome in order to achieve the desired impacts. UK-IPM Area of Emphasis/Title: Success Story Please provide a success story associated with this area of emphasis. Don’t forget to submit this to the person on your campus who coordinates the submissions for “Science and Education Impacts” to CSREES. Potential Title: Who cares and why? What has been done? What is the Impact? Remember to discuss this within the context of the three IPM Roadmap goals: Improving the cost benefit ratio of IPM, decreasing human health risk associated with pests and pest management activity, and decreasing environmental risk associated with pests and pest management activity. Primary impact areas (Check at least one.) Education Extension Research Funding Sources. (Check all that apply.) Hatch Act McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Animal Health and Disease Evans-Allen (1890) Smith-Lever 3(b) & (c) 1890 Extension National Research Initiative Special Research Grants Institution Challenge Grants National Needs Graduate Fellowships Grants Higher Education Multicultural Scholars Program 1890 Institutions Capacity Building Grants Hispanic Education Partnership Grants Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Tribal Colleges Endowment Fund Smith-Lever 3(d) (e.g., EFNEP,CYFAR) Renewable Resources Extension Act Extension at 1994 Institutions Other CSREES: Risk Management Grant through CSREES and SR-IPM Center Commodity: checkoff funding State (Describe) Local (Describe) Other (Describe) Contact Name, Address, Phone Name Address Telephone Your E-mail Address Additional Project Members: Date Submitted October 2009(FY2009)