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Integrated Pest Management Online Training Course

This online training course was designed by the Soybean Innovation Lab to provide extension agents and practitioners with an overview of Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion.
The course focuses on several key areas, including the principles of IPM, commonly-used IPM practices, pesticide safety, and IPM as applied to specific pests, such as weeds.
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Testimonial

“The course has really changed my life. It has made me a recognized person in my community. My former colleagues come to me for advice on integrated pest management on cashew and shea. I know it will boost my C.V. too. I say a big thank you to the course instructors.” 
Samuel Kwaku Antwi
Cocoa Research Institute, Ghana

Course Lessons

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Course Slides (PowerPoint)

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Course Audio
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Course Slides (PDF)

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Watch the Webinars on Soybean Insect Pest Management

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Soybean Insect Pest Management series #1:
Insect Pest Identification in Africa

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Soybean Insect Pest Management series #2:
Scouting and management of soybean insect pests

In this webinar series, the Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) will delve into the common insects that pose a threat to soybean crops. During this webinar series, we will focus on providing a basic description of these pests, detailing the harm they cause to soybeans, explaining how to inspect and assess the damage, and presenting various available management strategies.

The first webinar in this series focuses on identification of common insect pests in Africa and quantifying economic threshold levels.

The second webinar focuses on how and when to scout for soybean insect pests, Scouting tools and methods, and pest evaluation scales. We will also learn how soybean pests are tracked and identified in the real time in the Northwest US. We will finally explore different options for insect pest management including cultural, biological, and chemical options.

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Nicole Lee
Nicole Lee received her PhD in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She has lived and conducted agricultural research throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, including Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia.

This course was developed in partnership with:

Glen Hartman
Dr. Glen Hartman is a research plant pathologist for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), a Professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a principal investigator for the Soybean Innovation Lab. His work addresses significant challenges faced by soybean producers through his research on soybean diseases and pests. His research includes differentiating pathogens and pests that attack soybeans and providing management strategies for these pests. 
Harun Murithi
Dr. Harun Muthuri Murithi is a post-doctoral researcher for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and is a plant pathologist for the Soybean Innovation Lab. His research focuses on identifying soybean pathogens, characterizing the isolates and rating key diseases and pests in the Pan African Trials. He is interested in host-pathogen interactions to understand the mechanisms of pathogen development in order to guide in development of control interventions. He is also conducting research on red leaf blotch of soybean, a fungus that is native to Africa. He aims to identify sources of resistance that can be used in management of the disease. He has over nine years of experience working on soybean pathogens, with particular emphasis on soybean rust from his time spent as a researcher for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Tanzania.
Rufus Akinrinlola
Rufus Akinrinlola, MSc is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He is a plant pathologist focusing on integrated management of field crop pathogens including fungal and bacterial diseases and plant-parasitic nematodes. His current research focuses on identifying virulence variations among soybean cyst nematode populations in Tennessee. He has a passion for developing extension materials for farmers and practitioners in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa and has a blog dedicated to integrated pest management for soybean and cacao. He can be reached via e-mail at rakinrin@vols.utk.edu.   
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