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(open book in some cases) leading to state certification of field 

 scouts, since some form of quality control is deemed desirable to 

 prevent farmers from hiring minimally qualified scouts. 



Possible Alternative Forms of IPM Organizations After Pilot Program 

 Funding Ends . ^ 



1- IPM ceases to be implemented on any significant scale . Workshop 

 participants uniformly believed that this is not likely to happen 

 so long as growers realize potential advantages of IPM and so 

 long as viable alternatives exist. 



2. Some private commercial entity takes over . Such entities can be 

 in the form of independent scouts making no recommendations, or 

 private consultants who make recommendations (and perhaps serve 

 as a supervisor of scouts hired by a group of growers for a 

 large number of growers). If not enough qualified consultants 

 or scouts are available to accomodate interested growers, pro- 

 blems will ultimately result and IPM might fail. 



3. Creation of a grower-owned entity [Cooperative) . Where a cooper- 

 ative is already in existence and providing services, there is 

 the option to add 1PM services. It is important to keep sales 



of pesticides separate from IPM services in order to maintain 

 credibility with growers and reduce potential for conflict-of- 

 interest . 



Growers may choose to form a cooperative (one member-one vote, 

 limited return to capital, and division of earning? in propor- 

 tion to usage) independent of already existing supply or market- 

 ing cooperative in order to provide IPM services, completely 

 removed from pesticide sales. Such a cooperative could provide 

 only IPM scouting, scouting plus purchasing supplies and/or 

 services, or full agronomic services. A cooperative providing 

 only IPM services, hoivever, will have problems due to the sea- 

 sonal nature of the work, so the best option here is perliaps to 

 offer other services (leaf 5 soil analysis for example). 



4 . Creation of a non-profit grower-o^vned association (incorporated 

 or unincorporated ). Such an entity attempts to make no income 

 over expenses. This type of organization typically supplies 

 scouting services only, with no pesticide sales or application 

 services and can serve as a data collecting agency for the 

 Extension Service, receiving technical, educational and quality- 

 control service in return. Once growers have the scouting in- 

 formation, they can either make their own decision, ask the 

 advice of a private consultant or ask the Extension Service. 

 Alternatively, a non-profit groxver-owned organization can hire 



a scout supervisor who maintains extension liason, and makes 

 recommendations to participating growers. 



