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The latest issue of our new monthly newsletter, The Connection, is available for download (December 2009).

Welcome to the North Central Integrated Pest Management Center

The North Central IPM Center is one of four regional centers in a national network established to strengthen USDA's connection with pest management stakeholders in production agriculture; residential, urban, and institutional settings; research and extension programs; natural resource and wildland spaces; and public areas throughout the United States.

North Central Region Map The North Central region includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The center headquarters is currently co-hosted by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, and Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Please use the buttons and drop-down menus at the top of the page to navigate the site. If you have any questions related to this web site, please use our contact form.

Please Read!--Why Retain Competitively Funded Regional Integrated Pest Management Centers? It's the Law!

Check out our Employment Opportunities page!

Request for Applications--IPM Minigrants: Project directors with requests of up to $10,000 may apply for an IPM minigrant (include overhead of up to 25% of Total Direct Costs). The purpose of the minigrants is to provide funds for brief IPM tasks and projects that fit the mission of the Center but could otherwise not be accomplished without these funds.


Journal of Integrated Pest Management -- Call for Papers

Journal of Integrated Pest Management, is a new, open-access, peer-reviewed, extension journal covering the field of integrated pest management. The Editors-in-Chief are Dr. Marlin E. Rice of Pioneer Hi-Bred International (formerly with Iowa State University) and Dr. Kevin L. Steffey of Dow Agrosciences (formerly with the University of Illinois).

The editors are requesting submissions of original, extension-type articles about any aspect of pest management in the broadest sense, including, but not limited to, management of pests that affect row crops, forage and grasslands, horticultural crops, forests, urban landscapes, structures, schools, households, livestock and pets, and human health.

For more information, please visit http://www.entsoc.org/Pubs/Periodicals/jipm/index.htm


2008 North Central IPM Center's Annual Report (Adobe PDF, 1.1 MB)


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