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About Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
The development of effective insecticide solutions to pest management has revolutionised crop production. The low costof highly effective synthetic pyrethroid insecticides and the use of prophylactic ‘insurance’ insecticide applications has unfortunately become common practice. This has resulted in significant selective pressure for the development of insecticide resistance.
To assist the Australian grains industry in managing in-crop pests, the GRDC Crop Protection Program is supporting three broad strategies to help ensure cost effective invertebrate pest management can be achieved.
These strategies are:
• develop integrated pest management (IPM) strategies that reduce reliance on prophylactic use of broad spectrum pesticides;
• facilitate the development of a national extension network to capitalise on regional centres of expertise in IPM;
• maintain national capacity in invertebrate pest research through better co-ordination and use of resource and the provision of training opportunities.
The northern region has a strong history of successful IPM research, extension and application across a diverse range of grain crops. To help spread this success and develop parallel models in the other cropping regions GRDC initiated a National Invertebrate Pest Initiative (NIPI). A central objective of NIPI is the expansion of IPM expertise over a broader range of crops and farming systems.
The Pestlinks site aims to bring information on research, development and extension relating to IPM. Click on the following links below to find out more information:
- Invertebrate Pests (ONLINE NOW)
- Insect Pests of Stored Products (ONLINE NOW)
- Vertebrate Pests
- Insecticides & chemical companies
- Useful links
- Contacts
Insecticides & chemical companies
For labels and material safety datasheets (MSDS) for registered products please refer to pestgenie or MSDS.com.au (MSDS's only). For labels and permits please refer to the APVMA website.
Important information on insecticides can be found in the following links:
• 2007 Insecticide Resistance Management Strategies (CropLife Australia)
• 2007 Insecticide Mode of Action Table (CropLife Australia)
• Sthn NSW and Nthn Victoria - Heliothis Resistance Management Strategies 2006-07 (NSW DPI)
• Registered Chemicals for use in WA (DAFWA)
• Current Agricultural Pesticide Minor use permits for Broad Acre crops (located in AKC00001 - Registration for minor use chemicals for the grains industry)
Click on a link below to find out further information on IPM:
Links to general information
Australia
• Pests and Diseases Image Library (Australian Government). Offering high-quality colour diagnostic images and information on pests and diseases. PaDIL helps protect against invasive threats to Australia's plant health.
• Pest Genie. Pest Genie is a database specialising in information about plant protection and animal health products.
• CSIRO Stored Grain Research Laboratory. Since 1970, the SGRL has helped the grain industry develop a series of sound, cost-effective and safe technologies to maintain or enhance the quality of grain during storage. The Laboratory has a multi-disciplinary skill base and its capacity to effectively respond and develop industrially acceptable storage strategies to chemical and biological issues is a result of its unique close association with the Australian grain industry.
• Stored grain insects: a rogue’s gallery
• CSIRO Entomology. The Division was established in 1928 as an applied entomological institution. Research has diversified from invertebrates to now include molecular biology, biotechnology, risk assessment and modelling.
• Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia. The Department of Agriculture and Food assists the State's Agriculture, Food and Fibre sectors to be sustainable and profitable, with a clear focus on export-led growth.
• Insect pests and entomology in Western Australia. Contains a search for WA insect pests, Invertebrate Reference Collection Database (ICDb), staff profiles and contacts and links to collections of WA insect pests.
• Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Queensland. Invasive plants, pest animals and ants have significant economic, environmental and social impacts on Queenslanders. The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries works closely in partnerships with local governments, communities and other stakeholders to minimise these impacts.
• Crop management principals: Insect management. Contains a wide range of papers for IPM of various insect pests in Queensland.
• Grain insect pests of stored grain. This page discusses the reasons why there is a need to identify stored grain pests, common species and key contacts.
• South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). Contains a range of information about Entomology, Biological Control, Insect control, Weed Control, Diagnostics, Entomology Staff, Fact Sheets, Revegetation by design, Market Access, Newsletters, Other Publications, Pasture and Crop Pests, Research Projects and Urban Pests.
• New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. Contains information on vertebrate and insect pests.
• Department of Primary Industries, Victoria Information Notes - Pests and Diseases. Contains a range of information of pests for both crops and pastures.
• Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. This page has links to some of the more high profile pests and diseases that are a threat to Australia’s animal (including aquatic), marine and plant health. You will also find additional information on how we respond to pest and disease outbreaks, and how these incursions can be prevented in the first place.
• Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service. AQIS manages quarantine controls at our borders to minimise the risk of exotic pests and diseases entering the country. AQIS also provides import and export inspection and certification to help retain Australia’s highly favourable animal, plant and human health status and wide access to overseas export markets.
• Quarantine: Plant pests and diseases of concern. This page contains exotic plant pests and disease fact sheets that have been produced by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service.
• Australian Centre for International Research Crop Protection Program. The Crop Protection program has three main emphases: a systems approach to improving pre-harvest crop productivity including integrated pest management of pests and diseases; postharvest handling and disinfestation treatments; and biosecurity issues including diagnostics, pest/disease surveys and surveillance and assessment of the quarantine risk of specific horticultural crop.
International
• Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. The mission of the Grain Marketing and Production Research Centre (GMPRC) is to "Conduct innovative research and develop new technologies to solve problems relating to natural resources conservation and the production, harvesting, storage, marketing, and utilization of grain to ensure a safe, abundant, and high quality grain supply."
• Central Science Laboratory, York, England. An organisation dedicated to applying science in protection of foodchain safety and environmental health. Through developing and applying knowledge CSL support our customers in assessing risks, delivering sustainable environmental solutions and responding to emergencies
• Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Centre focuses on wheat and oat breeding, and improving cereal quality and resistance to diseases and insect pests.
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States Postharvest grain quality and stored product protection program. This program is a cooperative effort of Purdue University's Cooperative Extension Service, and the Departments of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Entomology, and Botany & Plant Pathology
• University of Minnesota Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering. The University conducts world-class research in a wide range of areas that contribute to environmental quality, enhance agricultural production, sustainable and environmentally friendly manufacturing, use and application of bio-based products and provide safer and healthier foods.
• Grain Handling and Storage Extension. A range of publications on grain storage and extension.
• North Dakota State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. A range of publications on grain drying and handling.
For more information in relation to IPM contact the following in each state:
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Dr Rohan Rainbow. GRDC Manager Crop Protection, PO Box 5367, Kingston ACT 2604 Email
Tom McCue, GRDC Manager Extension and Grower Programs, PO Box 5367, Kingston ACT 2604 Email
CSIRO Entomology
Dr Geoff Baker, Program Leader for the Invasion Biology and Functional Ecology Research Group
CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories, Acton, ACT. Publications Email
Dr Paul de Barro, Leader, Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) National Plant Biosecurity program
CSIRO Long Pocket Laboratories, Indooroopilly, QLD. Publications Email
Dr Owain Edwards, Principal Research Scientist, Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Floreat, WA. Publications Email
Dr Gary Fitt, Deputy Chief of Entomology, CSIRO Long Pocket Laboratories, Indooroopilly, QLD. Publications Email
Hainan Gu, Entomologist. CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories, Acton, ACT. Email
Dr Rod Mahon, Principal Scientist, CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories, Acton, ACT Email
Dr Nancy Schellhorn, Leader, Spatial Ecology team, CSIRO Long Pocket Laboratories, Indooroopilly, QLD. Publications Email
The University of New England, Armidale School of Environment and Rural Science
Dr Nigel Andrew, Senior Lecturer/Convenor, School of Environment and Rural Science. Email
Craig Birchall, Lecturer, School of Environment and Rural Science. Email
Prof Peter Gregg, Associate Professor, Agronomy and Soil Science, School of Environment and Rural Science. Chief Scientist, Cotton CRC. Email
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Dr Joanne Holloway, Entomologist, Grain Storage Unit, Wagga Wagga Agriculture Institute. Email
Dr Adrian Nicholas, Entomologist, Tamworth Agricultural Institute, Email
Helen Scott Orr, Director of Health Sciences, Strategic Alliances and Evaluation, Health Sciences, Strategic Alliances and Evaluation Branch, Orange. Email
Mark Stevens, Principal Research Scientist, Plant Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Strategic Alliances and Evaluation Branch, Yanco Agricultural Institute Email
Independent Consultants Australia Network (ICAN) Pty Limited, Hornsby
Independent Consultants Australia Network (ICAN) Pty Limited facilitates communication and links research organisations with consultants and growers in cropping industries. Organiser of the GRDC advisor and cropping updates in the northern region, and certified ChemCert trainer.
John Cameron. Email
The University of Queensland, Brisbane. School of Integrative Biology
Prof Meron Zalucki, Professor, School of Integrative Biology. Publications Email
Dr Sassan Asgari, Lecturer in Entomology, School of Integrative Biology. Publications
Dr Mike Furlong, Lecturer in Entomology, School of Integrative Biology, Publications Email
Conservation Farmers Incorporated, Toowoomba
Michael Burgis, Executive Officer, Email
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Dr Moazzem Khan, Entomologist, J. Bjelke-Petersen Research Station, Kingaroy Email
Austin McLennan, Extension Officer for Integrated Pest Management, DPI&F Pittsworth Office, Email
Dr Melina Miles, Principal Entomologist, DPI&F Toowoomba Office, Email
David Murray, Principal Entomologist, DPI&F Toowoomba Office, Email
Richard Sequeira, Principal Research Scientist, DPI&F Emerald Office, Email
South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide
Greg Baker, Senior Entomologist, Email
Judy Bellati, Research Officer, Email
Ken Henry, Senior Technical Officer, Email
Dr Victor Sadras, Associate Professor (Affiliated with University of Adelaide). Publications Email
University of Adelaide, Adelaide
Philip Hynd, Professor, Director Roseworthy Campus, Roseworthy, Email
Mike Keller, Associate Professor, Deputy Head of School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Campus, The University of Adelaide, Email
Jon Lamb Communications, Adelaide
Jon Lamb, E mail
The Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaption Research (CESAR)
Australian Research Council's Special Research Centre and is currently a collaboration between The University of Melbourne and Monash University
Ary Hoffmann, Professor and CESAR Director, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Publications Email
Philip Batterham, Associate Professor, Research Director of CESAR Chemical Stress Program, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, Publications Email
Dr. Andrew Weeks, Independent AWI Research Fellow Bio21 Molecular Science Institute, The University of Melbourne, Publications Email
Dr. Michele Schiffer, Research Fellow Bio21 Molecular Science Institute, The University of Melbourne, Publications Email
Dr. Paul Umina Research & Extension Officer, Bio21 Molecular Science Institute, The University of Melbourne Publications Email
Dr Nancy Endersby, Laboratory Manager Bio21 Molecular Science Institute, The University of Melbourne. Publications Email
Mr Michael Nash, PhD Candidate (Applied) Bio21 Molecular Science Institute, The University of Melbourne, Publications Email
Mr John Roberts, PhD Candidate Bio21 Molecular Science Institute, The University of Melbourne, Publications Email
IPM Technologies Pty Ltd, Hurstbridge
Dr Paul Horne, IPM Technologies Pty Ltd Email
VIC Department of Primary Industries
Jane Moran, Research Director, Plant Health Sciences DPI Knoxfield, Profile and Publications Email
David Williams, Section Leader, Invertebrate Sciences DPI Tatura Email
Dr Alan Yen, Statewide Leader, Invertebrate Sciences DPI Knoxfield, Profile and Publications Email
Chris Souness, Grains Extension Team Leader, DPI Horsham Email
Birchip Cropping Group, Birchip
Alexandra Gartmann, Chief Executive Officer, Email
WA Department of Agriculture and Food
David Bowran, Agronomist, Centre for Cropping Systems, Northam Email
Rob Emery, Senior Entomologist, DAFWA Head Office, South Perth, Email
Peter Mangano Senior Technical Officer Email
Svetlana Micic, Entomologist, Albany Regional Office, Albany, Email
Kevin Walden, Entomologist, Geraldton Regional Office, Geraldton, Email
University of Western Australia
Tracey Gianatti, Coordinator, Grower Group Alliance, UWA, and Regional Coordinator for Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN) in WA Email
Dr Helen Spafford-Jacob, School of Animal Biology Email
