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Impact Report

For plan Integrated Pest Management Systems (Luna County)
Date October 30, 2009, 7:47 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report The agent has made 620 contacts dealing with Integrated Pest Management in Luna County. These contacts came from home visits, phone calls, office visits, and workshops. The agent also conducts a weekly radio show to help educate the people of Luna County about pests and problems that he seeing throughout the county dealing with pest management. Workshops for this year include Pesticide Private Applicators, Church gaardening, and Schools. The pesticide workshop was held by Luna CES and NMDA, there was 37 Agriculture producers present. 20 of the attendees were there for the 5 CEU's credits that were offered while the other 17 were there to take the private applicators test to receive their card. The Mormon church asked the agent to present a workshop at their garden club meeting, this was done in early spring to help the people plant their gardens. There was 22 gardeners present at the workshops, we discussed several concepts of pest management and lawn and garden tips. The workshops presented to the schools were dealing with pest in desert gardens and insects found around Luna County. These were performed by the agent and the Master Gardeners of Luna County. There is two active Master Gardeners here in county, the Master Gardeners help to spread the word of pest management. The Master Gardeners worked a total of 200 hours, this was spent talking with people about gardening and planning for further workshops. They work in the office on Thursdays from 9:00am to 11:00am, while in office they answer the hotline and answer questions regarding pest management. The agent meets with them and discusses problems that they are having and helps to solve the problem. The agent attended meetings with local chemical salesman to share information that was happening with each agency. Scouting techniques,insects, and diseases that were present in crops. By holding workshops and visiting with people the agent will be able to better educate the people of Luna County.