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(3) 142 The Massachusetts Fruit Growers Association, Inc. be 



asked to contribute to the partial financial support 

 of such a position (remaining funding to come from 

 available State and/or Federal sources) . 



(1) 205 The Massachusetts Cooperative Extension Service and/or 

 the Federal governm.ent be asked to fully fund such 

 a position. 



In designing this questionnaire, we felt it important to present 

 growers with several options regardless of their feasibility. The 

 only realistic option here is for individual growers to contribute 

 to the partial funding of an IPM Specialist, with remaining funds 

 to come from Federal/State sources. It should be apparent by 

 now that one of the tenets of President Reagan's "New Federalism" 

 is more self reliance on the part of the states as well as commod- 

 ity groups and less reliance on steadily declining Federal support. 

 As noted in the Annual March Entomology Message To Massachusetts 

 Fruit Growers, 1982 by Prokopy and Groden , an Apple IPM Specialist 

 position can only be continued if fruit growers are willing to 

 match a certain level of Federal/State support v/ith yearly support 

 of their own. While most growers with more than 20 acres indicated 

 an interest in full funding from Federal/State sources, most growers 

 with less than 20 acres preferred that individual growers partially 

 fund such a position. 



8. When pilot funding ends in September, 1982, I would like to see: 



(6) ^8 IPM cease to exist, and growers return to a standard 



preventative spray schedule. 

 (5) "hl^ Private IPM scouts offer services presently offered 



by the pilot program., with no University contact. 



(3) 138 Private IPM scouts offer services presently offered 



by the pilot program, with scout training and peri- 

 odic orchard visits provided by a University IPM 

 Extension Specialist. 



(4) 36^ The grower or some member of orchard staff perform IPM 



scouting with no University contact. 



(1) 217 The grower or some member of orchard staff perform IPM 



scouting, with training and periodic orchard visits 

 provided by a University Specialist. 



(2) 204 IPM related training and information provided by the 



Regional Fruit Agents. 



It seems clear that respondents prefer to continue grower or 

 private scout contact with University IPM specialists after the 

 pilot program ends. In many other states, extension personnel con- 

 tinue in a resource capacity to make available updated IPM techniques 

 and assist with training and occasional supervision of growers and 

 private scouts. Cooperative Extension administration as well as 

 USDA IPM program leaders have expressed support of this relationship, 

 believing that it makes little sense to spend 5 years developing a 



