Administration/Coordination - IPM

Project Advisory Committees

In accordance with USDA guidelines, each active commodity-based IPM project should form a Project Advisory Committee which meets at least one time annually. The role of this group is to provide project staff and the IPM Coordinator with periodic input on and evaluation of project activities and directions and to insure that priority pest and crop management needs of the industry and concerns of other agencies and citizens of the Commonwealth are being met to the greatest extent possible.

In addition to a variable number of individual growers, whenever possible, the Project Advisory Committee should also have representation from private-sector IPM scouts/consultants, environmental or consumer advocacy groups, trade associations, and related businesses (e.g. Equipment dealers, agricultural chemical representatives, etc.)

Cranberry

Anne Averill Department of Entomology	Mr. Bob Fagan Mass. DEP, Southeast Region	Mr. John Sarkes Sarkes Cranberry Co.
Mr. Matt Beaton Cranberry Growers Services	Mr. Kirby Gilmore Gilmore Cranberry Co.	Mr. Chris Severance Slocum-Gibbs Cranberry Co.
Mr. Peter Benome NRCS-Plymouth County	Mr. Jeffrey LaFleur Cape Cod Cranberry Grower Assoc.	Mr. Todd Shove Edgewood Cranberry Trust
Frank Caruso Cranberry Experiment Station	Mr. Dave Nolte Decas Cranberry Co.	Mr. Bruce Tripp WHOI Rinehart Coastal Rsch. Ctr.
Mr. Lee Corte-Real Mass. Dept. of Food and Ag.	Mr. Mark Rasmussen Coalition for Buzzard’s Bay	Mr. Michael Utley RASP Agricultural Supplies
Carolyn Demoranville Cranberry Experiment Station	Hilary Sandler Cranberry experiment Station	Don Weber Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
Ms. Monika Weldon Clean Sweep Consulting

Greenhouse

Mr. Bill Randall Five Acre Farm Greenhouse	Dana King King Farm, Inc.	Mr. Donald Taranto D&D Farms, Inc.
Ms. Jodie Gilson Gilson farms	Mr. Robert Luczai Ball Seed Co.	Ms. Susan Allen Mass. Dept of Food and Ag.
Tina Rovito Bemis Bemis Farm Nursery	Mr. Richard Berry Berry’s Greenhouses Inc.	Ms. Laura McCarthy J.P. Bartlett Co., Inc.
Ms. Amalie Ann George A.A. George CPA, PC	Mr. Ethan Hess Lexington gardens	Mr. David Laczynski Deerfield Greenhouses
Mr. Jeff Kane Kane’s Flower World, Inc.	Mr. Michael Konjoian Konjoian’s Greenhouses	Mr. Dan Morrissey Griffin Greenhouse Supplies
Mr. Bob Sposato Sposato Wholesale Greenhouse	Mr. Steven Antunes-Kenyon Mass. Dept of Food and Ag.

Fruit

William Broderick Sunnycrest orchards	Dana Clark Clark Orchard	Robert Tuttle Breezelands Orchards
Kenneth Nicewicz Nicewicz Fammily Farm	Glenn Morin J.P. Sullivan Co.	Robin Spitko NEFCON
Maurice Tougas Tougas family Farm	Tony Lincoln Brookfield Orchards	David Chandler Meadowbrook Orchards
Julia Freedgood American Farmland Trust	Timothy Smith Apex Orchards	William Lockeretz School of Nutrition Tufts Univ.
Matt Boulanger Bread and Circus	Betsy Lydon Mothers & Others	Wayne Rice Rice Fruit farm
Kathleen Leahy Polaris Orchard Management	Russell French OESCO	Thomas Clark Clarkdale Fruit Farm
Franklyn Carlson Carlson Orchards	Mary Jane Bacon	Alexandra Dawson

Vegetable

Steve Clegg Four Town Farm	Mike Gagnon Bear Hill Farm	Stacey Miller Mass. Audubon Society
Jim Wilson Wilson Farms	Ken Nicewicz Nicewicz Family Farm	Mary Jordan Dept. of Food &Agriculture
Edward Davidian Davidian Farms	Mike Yates IPM consulting	Charles Touchette Feder. Mass. Farmers Markets
Dick Berndt Achinbac Farm	Jim Mussoni IPM Consulting	Paul Fischer Middlesex/Essex FSA
Linda Hildebrand Food Bank Farm	Karen Grybko Crop Production Services	Peter Westover Conservation Commision
Tim Wheeler Indian Head Farm	Rick Clark Oesco, Inc.	Brad Mitchell Dept. of Food &Agriculture
Alfred McKinstry McKinstry Market Gardens	John Demo Cains Foods, L.P.	William Coli Entomology Dept. UMass

Selected Articles:
Univeristy of Massachusetts Extension Integrated Pest Management Program Purposes, Policies, Procedures
Steering Committee
Vigorous Farms in a Safe Environment
Project Advisory Committees