SymposiaCAST <strong>Pesticide</strong> Resistance Management Symposium Provides Cross-Disciplinary DialogueThe Council for Agricultural Science andTechnology (CAST) held a two-day symposium onApril 10-11, 2003 in Indianapolis, Indiana, entitled"Management of Pest Resistance: Strategies UsingCrop Management, Biotechnology, and <strong>Pesticide</strong>s."CAST is a nonprofit organization composed of 38scientific societies and many individual, student,company, nonprofit, and associate society members.CAST assembles, interprets, and communicatesscience-based information regionally, nationally, andinternationally on food, fiber, agricultural, naturalresource, and related societal and environmental issuesto our stakeholders - legislators, regulators,policymakers, the media, the private sector, and thepublic.This symposium provided a cross-disciplinaryapproach to management of pest resistance and broughttogether 120 professionals concerned with resistancemanagement involving pathogens, insect pests, andweeds. There were representatives from the pesticideindustry, seed companies, extension, academia, stateand federal government (U.S. and Canada), pesticideeducation, consulting agencies, and growerorganizations.The overall goal of the symposium was to providea collective framework in which more proactiveresistance management could be developed in thefuture. The major objectives of the symposium were to:1. identify the common issues related to pesticideresistance management across disciplines;2. identify ways to remove barriers that preventproactive resistance management;3. provide opportunities for future discussions onpesticide resistance management;4. identify future research activities in resistancemanagement; and5. provide this information to lawmakers and federalagencies, especially the United <strong>State</strong>sEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) and theUnited <strong>State</strong>s Department of Agriculture (USDA),academia, extension, industry, consulting agencies,and the public.Forty-seven speakers from industry, academia,extension, consulting agencies, federal and stategovernment, grower organizations, and public interestgroups gave presentations at the Symposium. Most ofthese presentations will be available on-line at theCAST website (http://www.cast-science.org). Thesymposium agenda was developed by a steeringcommittee consisting of representatives from USDA,EPA, industry (Resistance Action Committees),academia, public interest groups, and growerorganizations. The agenda is available at the CASTweb site. The Symposium was organized into thefollowing eight sessions:1. Scope of North American Pest ResistanceProblems in 20032. Issues in Pest Resistance Management3. Lessons Learned I: Balance between Industry,Academia, Users, and Regulators4. Lessons Learned II: Have Models Helped?5. Role of Stakeholders6. Lessons Learned III: How Can We Work toAlleviate Barriers to Comprehensive ResistanceManagement Implementation? How Can We WorkTogether Better?7. Pest Resistance Management Goals8. Symposium Recommendations for Pest ResistanceManagement - Where to Now?The symposium provided a fruitful opportunity forall stakeholders involved in insect, weed, and pathogenpest management to come together to discuss issuesand lay the foundation for future collaborations toaddress pest resistance management. Several majorinterest areas were explored:1. targeting research funding for pest resistancemanagement with federal competitive grantprograms;2. improving pesticide education programs to addresspest resistance management;3. improving transparency of the EPA's regulation ofpesticide resistance management;4. evaluating of potential economic impacts of pestresistance management;5. targeting consumer education programs on the useof reduced risk pesticides, resistance management,and the cost of producing quality food in themarketplace;6. standardizing of definitions for resistance, methodsof resistance documentation, etc.;7. focusing on goals of resistance monitoringprograms; and8. changing national farm policy to better fundresearch and education for resistance management.Stakeholders agreed that proactive resistancemanagement is a desirable goal, but the path to reachthis goal is unclear.CAST is in the process of developing an on-lineProceedings of the Symposium that should be availableon the CAST website in Fall 2003
Spring 2003 Resistant Pest Management Newsletter Vol. 12, <strong>No.2</strong>(http://www.pestmanagement.info/rmworkshop/). Thispublication will be available at no cost to CASTmembers, the media, and government policymakers,and will be accessible to others for a fee. For furtherinformation contact, Sharlene Matten, 202-675-8333,ext. 16 or smatten@cast-science.org.Sharlene R. Matten, Ph.D.On detail to Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)Science Policy FellowWashington, D.C. [Feb.-June 2003]United <strong>State</strong>sandBiologist, U.S. EPAOffice of <strong>Pesticide</strong> ProgramsWashington, D.C.United <strong>State</strong>sDue to lack of subscriber interest and use we willno longer be offering our Perspectives Forum sectionin the newsletter. This site, intended as an onlinediscussion forum to express your views on issuesand/or problems that are of general reader interest, wasnot being utilized. Perhaps if there is interest, thisfeature will be reintroduced in the future.Thank you to those who contributed to this issue -you have really made the newsletter a worthwhilereading experience! Our contributors truely increasethe newsletter's success at sharing resistanceinformation worldwide.We encourage all of our readers to submit articles,abstracts, opinions, etc (see the newsletter online athttp://whalonlab.msu.edu/rpmnews/general/rpm_submission.htm for submission information).Announcements and Submission DeadlinesThe Newsletter is a resource to many around theglobe. It is also a wonderful and effective way toenhance the flow of ideas and stimulate communicationamong global colleagues. We appreciate your efforts tosupport the newsletter and we look forward to yourcontinued contributions.The next two submission deadlines are:Monday, September 15th, 2003Monday, March 15th, 2004We hope you continue to consider the newsletteras a forum for displaying your ideas and research.85
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