Extension Agent – Integrated Pest Management – Crosby and Floyd Counties
Education:
BS – Tarleton State University 2006 – Agricultural Services and Development
MS – West Texas A&M University 2008 – Integrated Pest Management
Experience:
2009 – present Extension Agent – IPM Texas AgriLife Extension, Crosby and Floyd Counties.
IPM Unit Description:
Crosby and Floyd County cotton growers have averaged planting 383,000 acres of cotton each year during the last ten years. The average value of the cotton they have grown has been over $124 million per year. Ninety percent of Texas pumpkins – 5, 000 to 8,000 acres per year – are grown in Floyd and Crosby Counties. The 8-year average value of the pumpkin crop in these counties is $6-10 million per year.
Meetings and Publications:
Weekly Newsletter reaches 456 non-extension clientele
News releases written for the Ag Press
Eleven newspaper articles written
Collaborative Work:
Texas AgriLife Extension Agents, Tarleton State and West Texas A&M Faculty, Texas Pest
Management Association, Plains Cotton Growers, Floyd County Pumpkin Growers.
Scholarly Presentations:
Selected Presentations:
Patman, Dustin and Brant Baugh. 2009. Aphid management: Effects on Key Predators. IPM
Workshop: Texas Pest Management Association Annual Meeting, February 10, 2009.
Recent IPM Emphasis and Accomplishments:
The IPM Agent in this unit works to develop and deliver IPM scouting and applied research programming on cotton and pumpkins in Crosby and Floyd Counties. At the end of the 2010 season producers in the 2-county area were asked to complete surveys to provide their thoughts about the program. The respondents indicated that the average per acre value of the IPM program was $21 per acre. They also indicated that the program had reduced the amount of pesticide used while maintaining crop yields and net profits.
Scholarly Publications:
Patman, D., D. Kerns, B. Baugh, and K. Siders. 2010. Potential of Diamond insecticide for Lygus management in the Texas High Plains. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 820-824.
Muegge, M., D. Kerns, M. Parajulee, M. Vandiver, W. Multer, E. Nino, D. Patman, S. Russell and K. Siders. 2010. Development of a binomial sampling plan to estimate thrips populations in cotton to aid IPM decision making. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. S. Boyd, M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.).National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 1013-1016.
Kerns, D., M. Parajulee, E. Bynum, M. Vandiver, M. Cattaneo, K. Siders and D. Patman. 2010. Developing an action threshold for thrips in the Texas High Plains. In: Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 880-885.
Patman, D., D. Kerns and B. Baugh. 2011. Potential for using boll damage as a threshold indicator for Lygus in the Texas High Plains. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.).National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 785-788.
Kerns, D., M. Parajulee, M. Vandiver, M. Cattaneo, K. Siders and D. Patman. 2011. Developing an action threshold for thrips in the Texas High Plains. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.).National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 1079-1085.
Doederlein, T., D. Kerns, B. Baugh and D. Patman. 2011. Ability of cotton to compensate for early season fruit loss and impact on yield and lint quality. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 819-824.
Cattaneo, M., B. Baugh, D. Patman and D. Kerns. 2011. Control of mixed populations of bollworm and fall armyworm in non-Bollgard cotton. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 748-752.