Seminole, Texas
432/788-0800
MGCattaneo@ag.tamu.edu
Extension Agent Integrated Pest Management – Gaines County
Education:
BS – New Mexico State University, 2001 – Agriculture Biology/Pest Management
MS – University of Arizona, 2005 – Entomology
Experience:
2005-2008 Extension Agent – IPM Texas AgriLife Extension, Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy
Counties
2008- present Extension Agent – IPM Texas AgriLife Extension , Gaines County
Meetings and Publications:
7 IPM Annual Research Report Book
5 Extension Publications
Weekly radio programs during the growing season
36 presentations at local and regional educational meetings and conferences
14 issues of grower newsletters/year
55 newspaper articles
77 On-Farm Applied Research Trials
Collaborative Work:
Substantial collaborative work with Texas Peanut Producers Board, Plains Cotton Growers, USDA- APHIS, Texas A&M, New Mexico State University, USDA-ARS, Texas AgriLife Research , Texas AgriLife Extension, Western Peanut Growers and 33 local and national agricultural businesses.
Scholarly Presentations:
Numerous presentations at the Beltwide Cotton Conference, Entomology Science Conference, American Peanut Research and Education Society Annual Meeting, and other conferences.
Selected Scholarly Presentations:
Cattaneo, M. 2005. Integrated Pest Management. Texas Cooperative Extension and USDA NRCS Conservation Tillage Meeting. Raymondville, TX. Sept., 2005.
Cattaneo, M. 2006. Cotton IPM in the Rio Grande Valley. Texas Ag Industries Assoc. Edinburg, TX. Sept., 2006.
Cattaneo, M. 2006. Lower Rio Grande Valley Whitefly Trials. Texas A&M University Entomol. Science Conf. College Station, TX. Oct., 2006.
Cattaneo, M. 2006. Whitefly Management. Monsanto – East Texas Crop Consultant and Extension Meeting. San Antonio, TX. Nov., 2006.
Cattaneo, M. 2007. Cotton IPM Report/Update. Texas Ag Industry Assoc. Edinburg, TX. May, 2007.
Cattaneo, M. 2007. 2007 RGV Pest Concerns. Texas Ag Industry Assoc. Edinburg, TX. Sept., 2007.
Vandiver, M., D. Kerns and M. Cattaneo. 2008. Thrips Management Options in Texas High Plains Cotton. Texas A&M University Entomol. Science Conf. College Station, TX. Nov., 2008.
Cattaneo, M. 2008. Extension’s Role in Addressing Changes in Cotton Production. New Mexico Cotton Conf. Ruidoso, NM. Jan., 2009.
Cattaneo, M., J. Woodward and T. Baughman. 2009. Impact and Management of Peanut Diseases in Gaines County, Texas. American Peanut Research and Education Soc. Raleigh, NC.
Dotray, P.A., L.V. Gilbert, K.T. Siders, S.A. Russell and M.G. Cattaneo. 2010. Peanut Response to Flumioxazin in the Texas High Plains. Southern Weed Science Soc. Little Rock, AR. Jan., 2010.
Wheeler, T.A., J.E. Woodward, S.A. Russell and M.G. Cattaneo. 2010. Sampling for Pod Rot of Peanut. American Phytopathological Soc. Charlotte NC. Aug., 2010.
Russel, S. A., T.A. Wheeler, M. G. Anderson, and J. E. Woodward. Developing and Economic Threshold for Peanut Pod Rot in the Texas South Plains. Annual Meeting of the American Peanut Research and Education Society. San Antonio, TX. July 2011.
Recent IPM Emphasis and Accomplishments:
Gaines County has planted an average of over 268,000 acres of cotton and 58,000 acres of peanuts each year (NASS 10-year averages). The average value of the cotton produced is over $87 million per year, while the average value of the peanut crop is over $46 million per year.
Ms. Anderson provides educational leadership in cotton and peanut production and pest management. Working closely with growers, gins, crop consultants, agriculture industry representatives and her local IPM steering committee, she develops, implements programs aimed at increasing the profitability of production and minimizing negative impacts of agriculture on the environment and on human health. She carefully evaluates the impact of her programs on local cotton and peanut producers. Some of the specific objectives she addresses with her program are: to evaluate cotton and peanut development and pest populations to identify potential risks, conduct applied research projects on cotton varieties performance and cotton & peanut disease management, and distribute results and crop production/protection newsletters to growers and the agriculture community.
Ms. Anderson aided boll weevil eradication in the Lower Rio Grande Valley through her educational work with growers and by sharing pest and natural enemy information with the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation. She assisted West Texas cotton and peanut growers with their insect and disease management practices. Applied research projects were an important part of new information development in her educational efforts in both South and West Texas.
In the fall of 2011 surveys were sent to producers and members of the agricultural community. Thirty-one individuals responded. Ninety-seven percent of respondents said they plan to take action or make changes based on the information provided by the IPM program. One hundred percent of the producers they had benefitted economically from the IPM program. The average benefit was $37.50/acre. If the grower estimate of the value of Ms. Anderson’s program is applicable to all Gaines County cotton and peanut producers, her program has an annual impact of over $12.2 million to producers in the county.
Scholarly Publications:
Cattaneo, M.G., C. Yafuso, E. Schmidt, C. Huang, M. Rahman, C. Olson, C. Ellers-Kirk, B.J. Orr, S.E. Marsh, L. Antilla, P. Dutilleul and Y. Carriere. 2006. Farm-scale evaluation of the impacts of transgenic cotton on biodiversity, pesticide use, and yield. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 103 (20): 7571-7576.
Spurgeon, D.W. and M. Cattaneo. 2006. Interactions between trap placement and boll weevil colonization of cotton. . In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Huffman, M. and D. Richter (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 940-943.
Ribera, Luis and M. Cattaneo, 2007. Economics of Variety Selection for cotton cultivars. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman, D. Richter and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 1385-1388.
Castro, B.A. and M. Cattaneo. 2008. Cotton aphid control using selected insecticides in cotton, 2007. Arthropod Management Tests. 2008.
Junek, T.A. P.V. Pietrantonio, B.W. Hopkins, E. Bynum, M. Cattaneo, G. Cronholm, T.X. Liu, R.R. Minzenmayer, G. Moore, D. Mott, R. Parker, C.G. Sansone, K. Siders, N. Troxclair and J. Vargas-Camplis. 2008. Monitoring for pyrethroid resistance in bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) populations in Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico – 2007. In: Proc Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman, D. Richter and B. Robertson(eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp 1241-1256
Ribera, Luis A., and Manda Cattaneo. 2008. Economics of Cotton Variety Selection for Cotton Cultivars in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Journal of Extension. 46, 5 (October, 2008) [On-line]. Available: http://www.joe.org/joe/2008october/rb3.shtml
Carriere, Y., C. Ellers-Kirk, M.G. Cattaneo, C.M. Yafuso, L. Antilla, C. Huang, M. Rahman, B.J. Orr, and S.E. Marsh. 2009. Landscape effects of transgenic cotton on non-target ants and beetles. Basic and Applied Ecology 10 (7): 597-606.
Cattaneo, M.G., M. Kelley, R.K. Bowman, T.A. Wheeler and J.E. Woodward. 2009. 2008 Cotton variety performance under verticillium wilt pressure. In: Proc Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman, D. Richter and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp 115-122.
Kerns, D., M. Parajulee, M. Vandiver, M. Catteneo and K. Siders. 2009. Developing an action threshold for thrips in the Texas High Plains. In: Proc Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman, D. Richter and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp 734-740.
Vandiver, M., D. Kerns and M. Cataneo. 2009. Thrips management optionsin irrigated cotton on the Texas High Plains. In: Proc Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman, D. Richter and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp 721-733.
Cattaneo, M.G., T.A. Wheeler, D.L. Kerns, J.E.Woodward, M.S. Kelley and R.K. Boman. 2010. Evaluation of variety tolerance and chemical management of southern root-knot nematodes. In: Proc Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp 205-212.
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.
Multer, W., T. Doederlein, M. Cattaneo, J. Pierce, C. Allen, R. Zink, M. Walters, D. Kerns, and J. Westbrook. Pink Bollworm Trapping in the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico. Beltwide Cotton Conference 2011 Proceedings. pp. 753-757
Cattaneo, M. G., T.A. Wheeler and J.E. Woodward. 2011. 2010 Evaluation of cultivar tolerance and chemical management of southern root-knot nematode. In Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.).National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 175-177.
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.
Pietrantonio, P.V. D.H. Kim, L. Castillo, L. Nemik, S. Singh, R.D. Parker, B. Reed, K. Siders, M. Cattaneo, M. Vandiver and N. Troxclair. 2011. Texas resistance monitoring program reveals increase in cypermethrin susceptibility in Heliocoverpa zea (Boddie) populations in 2010. In: Proc. Beltwide Cotton Conf. Boyd, S., M. Huffman and B. Robertson (eds.). National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN. pp. 1100-1110.
Woodward, J.E., T. A Wheeler, M. G. Cattaneo, S. A. Russell, and T. A. Baughman. 2011. Evaluation of Soil Fumigants for Management of Verticillium Wilt of Peanut in Texas. 2011 Plant Management Network, Plant Health Progress.
Awards:
2011 Texas AgriLife Extension Service, District II, Outstanding Multi-County Ag Programming Award
2011 Plains Cotton Growers, Inc., 2010 Outstanding High Plains Cotton Agent Award
2010 New Mexico State University, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences – Entomology, Plant Pathology, and Weed Science Departmental Alumni Award
2010 Texas Pest Management Association – Excellence in IPM 0-6 Year Category
2008 Southern Region Integrated Pest Management Center, Outstanding IPM Program, Award to the Texas Program.
2007 Texas Pest Management Association – Excellence in IPM 0-6 Year Category.
2007 Texas Farm Bureau, Young Farmer and Rancher, 2007 Excellence in Agriculture Award Contest Winner.
2006 Texas Cooperative Extension, District 12, Award in Excellence for Early Career Achievement.
2006 Texas Cooperative Extension, District 12, Award in Excellence for Rookie of the Year.
2005 University of Arizona, 1st Place Master’s Project.
2001 New Mexico State University, Dean’s Award of Excellence – Fall Graduating Class.