Letter of Intent for Management

							Funding source/Area Due Date       Status   Possible Research Projects                              $ Amount for project Collaborators            Fit w/in our mission
S-IPM                 10/29/2002 Letter of Title: Identification and Utilization of Soybean Cyst ~$50,000                   Hershman, D.E.,       Using PA technologies to increase SCN control strategies'
                                 intent    Nematode (Heterodera glycines) Management Zones                                  T.S., Stombaugh,      efficiencies
                                 submitted                                                                                  S.A., Shearer, T.G.
                                                                                                                            Mueller, D.W.
                                                                                                                            Hancock – Univ. of
                                                                                                                            Kentucky; E.G.
                                                                                                                            King, - USDA-ARS
                                                                                                                            MSA-Stoneville,
                                                                                                                            Mississippi; J.A.
                                                                                                                            Thomasson –
                                                                                                                            Mississippi State

EPA
      Watershed     11/21/2002      -       Management of the watershed of a grain production No more than $1.3                                   Use of spatial analysis of change in water quality of surrounding
      Initiative    for letter of           area in North-Central Kentucky                    million                                             areas and the impact to the field's nutrient management and
                    intent, and 60                                                                                                                environmental impact. Could estimate the cost of such a
                    days after                                                                                                                    practice, economic benefit to producer, and environmental
                    being notified                                                                                                                benefits
                    as passing
                    that level, the
                    full proposal
                    must be
                    submitted.
EPA
      319H          ??? Check       -       Management of the watershed of a grain production ???                                                 Demonstrations only. Lots of followup work. Use of spatial
                    KY DOW                  area in North-Central Kentucky                                                                        analysis of change in water quality of surrounding areas and the
                    website in                                                                                                                    impact to the field's nutrient management and environmental
                    March 03                                                                                                                      impact. Could estimate the cost of such a practice, economic
                                                                                                                                                  benefit to producer, and environmental benefits


03 NRI
     23.1 Managed       11/1/2002 -         Response to changes in land use (e.g. conversion of     all no more than                              Use of spatial analysis of change and impact to the field's
     Ecosystems                             agricultural land to managed wetlands or forests as per $450,000 for a 3-4 yr                         nutrient management and environmental impact. Could
                                            the CRP or other programs) - Use of constructed         project, each.                                estimate the cost of such a practice, economic benefit to
                                            wetlands to manage nutrient runoff and use for                                                        producer, and environmental benefits
                                            irrigation.
                                            Response to changes in management (e.g., tillage                                                      Use of management zones, once delineated, to combat soil
                                            practices - Reclamation of compacted soils through                                                    compaction.
                                            precision deep tillage/other, waste application as a                                                  Economic and environmental value of CRP enrollment of field
                                            fertilizer, use of corridors and buffer strips - Use of                                               borders and sensitive areas.
                                            corridors and buffer strips for environmental benefit
                                            and economic efficiency, use of precision technologies
                                            - This one is tailor made to virtually anything we
                                            might plug in )
                                            Response to disturbance (e.g., invasion of native and
                                            exotic species, grazing/herbivory, fire, wind, urban
                                            development, and other landscape scale changes,
                                            harvesting, pathogen and disease infestations, drought,
                                            flooding, climatic changes)
                                            Landscape fragmentation influences and consequences
                                            for natural and managed ecosystems
development or implementation of new or innovative        see above
ecosystem management practices - Use of constructed
wetlands to manage nutrient runoff and use for
irrigation could go here as an alternative

models to estimate future status at various spatial and   Evaluation/prediction of nutrient level changes due to site
temporal scales under different management strategies     specific nutrient management.
and different scenarios of environmental change
(nutrient management zones, etc.)
       51.2 Entomology      11/1/2002 -   Spatial population dynamics, ecology, and behavior not to exceed $300,000          Hershman, D.E.,       Using PA technologies to increase SCN control strategies'
       and Nematology                     of SCN in various cropping systems                 for 2-4 yrs of support          T.S., Stombaugh,      efficiencies
                                                                                                                             S.A., Shearer, T.G.
                                                                                                                             Mueller, D.W.
                                                                                                                             Hancock – Univ. of
                                                                                                                             Kentucky; E.G.
                                                                                                                             King, - USDA-ARS
                                                                                                                             MSA-Stoneville,
                                                                                                                             Mississippi; J.A.
                                                                                                                             Thomasson –
                                                                                                                             Mississippi State
                                                                                                                             University

       51.7 Biologically    1/15/2003 -   Impact of site-specific use of SCN resistant varieties not to exceed $300,000      same                  same
       Based Pest                                                                                for 3-4 yrs of support
       Management

SBIR
       Phase II (Phase I     2/2/2003 -   Providing a service to summarize and evaluate              not to exceed $80,000                         Integrates KPAN into a development project that would involve
       deadline is 08-30-                 precision agriculture data (This is not a very good title, over 6 months                                 summarizing and evaluating the data of ~30 producers in each
       02)                                but we can work on it.)                                                                                  participating state. It's a backdoor approach, but would likely be
                                                                                                                                                   easier to initiate and to carry-out through the "business-entity
                                                                                                                                                   (KPAN).