Via news release from Mary Woodson.
GENEVA, N.Y. — Abby Seaman, a vegetable crops specialist with the New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program at Cornell University, has been named the Program’s vegetable IPM coordinator. Seaman, a nationally recognized authority, is widely known to New York growers for her real-time alerts on potentially devastating disease and insect pests in their areas. These alerts help them cope with pests with least-toxic methods.
“Abby Seaman has worked extensively with farmers to implement biological control of insect pests,” says Don Rutz, director of the New York State IPM Program. “She is also a well-known pest information resource for organic farmers.”
Seaman, previously the Program’s vegetable IPM educator, brings nearly two decades of expertise in pest management to the position. Over that time she has provided hundreds of workshops training thousands of growers in IPM techniques—scouting, thresholds, biological control, and more—to help them prevent and manage insect, disease, and weed pests.
Seaman is a graduate of Cornell University with an M.S. in entomology. She replaces Curt Petzoldt, the Program’s vegetable coordinator since 1985. “Abby’s vast experience in New York vegetable production will provide a seamless transition,” says Rutz.
Integrated pest management brings together a suite of tactics that help protect the environment—and their bottom line. To learn more about IPM, go to www.nysipm.cornell.edu.