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Impact Report
| For plan | Integrated Pest Management Systems (Bernalillo County) |
| Date | October 14, 2008, 5:08 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Agricultural IPM Field Visits: Clientele often telephone the Extension Office and have crop, garden, pest, weed problems that require a site or field visit to assess the problem. Below are summaries of some of those site visits: Vera Cline – was building a duck pond and wanted to know if any poisonous weeds were in that area. I identified Silverleaf NIghtshade and recommended she clean all the dead plants and the pods laying on the ground. Then in the spring continue to hoe the plants to avoid chemical usage in the duck pond area. Lee & Sandy Liggett - Sandia Park, NM – needed pastures evaluated for weeds for their Alpacas. Several were identified – Buffalo grass, Broom Snakeweed, Flixweed, Kochia, Foxtail Barley, Scarlet Mallow, White Horehound, Spurge, and Western Sticktight. There were not enough of any noxious weeds to cause harm to the Alpacas. Walter & Daniel Bracken – South Valley - needed weeds identified in an alfalfa field. I identified Shepherd’s Purse mustard weed and consulted Jamshid Ashigh, NMSU Weed specialist. He sent Mr. Bracken a recommendation of some of the ag. chemicals that might work in that scenario. Andrew Stone – had diseased tomatoes in his garden. There were a total of 40 tomato plants in the garden. Curly top was evident, but upon sending samples to NMSU Plant Pathologist, Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus was also identified. Recommended removing diseased plants and trying to control thrips as preventative methods to prevent the spread of the diseases. Dianne Bresson – had pesticide damage in her yard resulting from a neighbor’s using stump removal chemicals. I sent samples to NMSU Plant Pathology to verify that the damage was not due to any diseases, thus leaving the chemical application as the culprit. Also gave the client the number of NMDA Pesticide Division in Albuquerque. As it was discovered, a landscape maintenance firm had applied the chemicals without having a Commercial Applicator’s License. The company had to clean up the chemicals and replant new plants. Carla Clark – Raises dwarf goats (Pygmy) and wanted the pasture evaluated. Prostate Spurge was present in small quantities, and lambsquarter. The rest of the pasture was grass in good condition. Ed Wilder-had two very old horses die about a month apart. They were on a pasture, so I went and evaluated the pasture. Twenty six different varieties of plants were identified, but no toxic plants in enough quantities to cause death. The pasture was mostly good grasses and the only plants to have been grazed were grasses. |