 Hello everyone, my name is Andrew Friskup and I'm the Serial Extension Plant Pathologist at North Dakota State University. Today we're going to be taking a tour of the NDSU Extension Pest Management App that was recently launched in 2014. Before I begin, I would like to tell you what the app exactly is and what is the main goal of it. The Pest Management App is a resource medium that combines three NDSU Extension publications, namely the Plant Disease Management Guide, the Insecticide Guide, and the Weed Control Guide. Combining these three resources into one mobile app was really instilled by the commodity group base, and hence the commodity group support was a strong indication of why this app became a success. So to start things off, you need to know how to download the app. There are two platforms you can download it on. For the Apple-based devices, you can go to the Apple Store, search NDSU Pest Management and download it through there. Note that you will need an Apple ID and a password. Similarly for the droid-based devices, you can go to the Google Play Store and type in NDSU Pest Management App and download it from there. So once you have downloaded and opened the app, you can get to the main screen. What I'm showing you here is what you'll see often on a tablet version, so like your iPad or Nexus being two tablet devices, and it will differ slightly with any kind of phone. On the phones, you won't have any of these bookmark devices on the main page. Rather, you will have to slide your screen or click on the toolbar in the upper left-hand corner to have access to the additional tools and bookmarks section. So to start things off, the app is divided into search by main crops. So here for practical purposes today, we're going to click on driving. Note we can choose any one of the seven crops that are listed. After selecting a crop, it will then bring the three pest types that you can look to manage. Diseases, insects and weeds. So in this case, I'm going to click on say we have a diseases of driving that we're looking for some more information about. Once you click on diseases, you'll notice another table that shows us the general info resources and a selection of diseases. So starting from the top and moving down, the general info tab is what would you commonly see in the hard copy versions of the Plant Disease Management Guide. In the front half, this would be similar what you would see with the other pest control guides as well. Once you click on it, as you can see that there is a variety of information that you want to look at or perhaps that you want to find more information on. So I'm going to click back here and then look at the resource tab. Here are the resources that we have the end on link or site that we can look at extension. In this case, Plant Pathology, Department of Ag, Pesticide Training and Certification. So as you click on one of the resources, it will be hyperlinked and if you are connected to a wireless device or you can use your other data available, you can visit the websites that way. So that kind of gives you a sense of what to look at once you have selected a pest. Now let's go into what happens when you select on a disease. So in this case, I'm going to click on driving rust and with driving rust, you have a foyer application option. So we'll select that. And now we have the list of fungicides that are labeled for driving rust in North Dakota here. If sometimes you'll have to make a decision based on what is available to you or in this case, maybe just look for more information. I'm going to click on monsoon, which is a Terbiconazole based product. So after you click on the fungicide trade name, you'll be brought to another screen. Note that both the insects, the diseases and the weeds are all going to have a similar information base for the control version. So here we have the trade name located on top, followed by the active ingredient. In this case, it's Terbiconazole. For this, this is the frac group. This is the frac three demethylation inhibitors, also known as the triazoles. Here we have a dose rate of fluid ounces per acre. Target organism is the rust pathogen. You can use it as a spray of fungation and any other type of remarks regarding that specific chemical will be located at the bottom. Note this, it says review your label for more information, which is always a good decision to do. There is one note that do not apply more than 12 fluid ounces per year. So that is kind of the basic way how you would visit through a specific pest or looking for more fungicide information in this case. But regardless, it is the same method. Now to go back to the main screen, you can just keep on hitting the arrow in the upper left hand corner. That will keep taking you back to the previous page like so. Or if you look at the toolbar in the left hand corner where you have everything else inserted, you can click that and it will bring you right back to the home page. So there are other features that are also included with this app. And one is the tool selection here. So for an iPhone, you would have to move the screen over to select it for tablet users. You can select it as follows. And here we have more tools for herbicide type of applications. First of all, crop rotation restrictions. How this is set up is you can select the herbicide of choice that you're looking at as far as what type of rotation restrictions. You're looking at when applying this fungicide. So we'll just stick with the accent. And in the bottom here, you'll notice a variety of crops that are represented in the weed control guide. So in this case, I clicked barley so there's no bio-acid information. But notice if I would switch that to, let's say, beyond. Notice a rotation restriction or any type of information that would pop up. So it is fluid. So anytime you choose a new herbicide, it will come back with a new rotation restriction. Another feature in the tool section is the relative herbicide effectiveness. You can think this as an efficacy table. And this is in regards strictly to the herbicides. Note that we do not have one for the insect or diseases yet. But in this case, we select a herbicide just like before. We'll leave it on 2-4-D here. And you can see the information with the weeds as follows. For this case, E refers to excellent control. G is for good control, F is fair, P is poor, and N means there's no control. So it does give you a good quick reference as far as if a herbicide is going to be effective on weed species. The final aspect of the toolbar that we should be familiar with is the minimum rain intervals. This is a period of time between a herbicide application and a rainfall event. In this case, it's moving left to right here. It'll give the herbicide trade name and the minimum rain interval on the right-hand side. So it does have a variety of other additional tools other than just disease management. One other feature I'd like to showcase is this bookmark section. And this is really to highlight important pages. So say that you solely are a small grain producer and your biggest issue are diseases. Instead of going through the step-by-step process, we can bookmark this page. So in this case, you'll click bookmark and then you can enter anything that you would see fit. You could put small grain diseases. You could be fungicide info for wheat, whatever it has to be. Once you have clicked OK, now that if you ever need to have a quick reference, we can click on that bookmark and it'll bring us right to the page that we had selected previously. So this is another feature that you can look at and play around with and really try to take full advantage of what all the app has to follow. Thank you for your time. And if you have any additional questions, feel free to contact me through my email, Andrew.j.friskup at NDSU EDU. And thank you for your time. Hello, this is Andrew Friskup. I am the North Dakota State University Serial Extension Plant Pathologist. And today I am going to show you an example of how to use the NDSU Pest Management app. In this case, I'm going to say I'm a corn farmer in North Dakota and have an issue with common cockabur. So using the Pest Management app, the way I would get to information for common cockabur control in corn would be select the whole crop, corn, select the pest, in this case it's a weed, and then look at common cockabur itself. However, if I'm not quite sure if it is common cockabur, notice you can click on the picture and it gives you a cotyledon type of picture. Notice use this as a tool, it's just more of a supplemental resource. So once I'm positive it's common cockabur, I'm looking at the type of application I want to make. Well, in this case I want to make a post-application, a post-emergent application. Notice I have a variety of options that I can use for this. But for this case, I'm going to say I'm going to use Banville or Dicamba on this. Note I have the active ingredient, the type of mode of action that it may have, note in this one the specific site is unknown. The target weed is any broadleaf weeds, when to apply, and any other remarks that can go through this. So following these information you can give you a relatively good idea of how well Banville would work on common cockabur. For any kind of other general info perhaps you want to look at an adjuvant or any other supplemental information, you can always go through that way too and to any other further information. So I hope you enjoyed this quick video on how to use this pest management app when you have a weed control problem in your field. Hello, my name is Andrew Friskup and I am the NDSU Serial Extension Plant Pathologist. Today I'm going to show you another example of how to use the NDSU pest management app. When you have an insect problem in your soybean fields, so once you have successfully launched the pest management app, now we can go through defining information for soybean aphids. So first thing I'm going to select is the host crop, this case soybean, and then I'm going to select the pest of choice in this case, it's an insect. And also a variety of insects that can cause damage on soybeans, but the one I'm specifically worried about is the soybean aphid. We'll click on the photo, this case it's an adult version of it, looking specifically at these black cornicles. Once I'm positive I have a soybean aphid problem, I can then select treatment options. So I'm looking for a foyer application of an insecticide to help with the soybean aphid pressure. So once after I collect my option, I can look at the number of insecticides that are labeled for soybean aphid control. In this case I've decided to use warrior. You can notice as similar as the other videos, you have the active ingredient, the mode of action. In this case it's a sodium channel modulator. The rate suggested to use post-harvest interval restrictions and anything else that may or may not be used for. If I need more information or would like to know more about this product or insecticide applications in general, I can select the general information and can start to find additional information on soybean aphid. Here we're looking at pest pressures, economic thresholds and scouting. So there is a lot of information available at your fingertips when it comes to managing pests by simply using the NDSU pest management app. Thank you for watching this video today and if you have any further questions please contact me. Hello, my name is Andrew Frisco and I am the NDSU serial extension plant pathologist. Today I want to share with you a video of how to use the NDSU pest management app if you are a grower. So in this case once you have successfully launched the mode of the video, I'm going to say I am a wheat farmer that is dealing with rust issues in my crop. So in this case I want to move through, I'm a small grain grower and then select the pest that I am worried about this year. In this case it's a disease. Once it brings me to the next table I notice there are a variety of diseases that can affect my wheat crop but I'm really worried about is rust. In this case we'll say leaf rust. You can take a picture and look for visual examination. Notice we have two rust diseases in this one. The leaf rust here and the stripe rust located down here. So once we have made a positive diagnosis of what disease is in the field we can look at some options. So I'm looking to make a foliar application of a fungicide to help reduce the amount of rust pressure in my field. Notice I have to click in the foliar application tab. I have a variety of fungicides that are labeled for rust management in North Dakota. In this case today I will choose quilt which is a combination of frack groups and as you may have seen earlier we brings us to the what I call the management tab. Here it has the trade name quilt with the active ingredients as oxastrobin and propochonazole representing two frack groups, demethylation inhibitors and quote on outside inhibitors. We have use rates on acres, other diseases that is known to suppress and any other additional information such as post harvest intervals or the maximum amount of quilt that can be applied to a wheat crop. If we're looking for more information perhaps anything on fungicide resistant management strategies so forth we do have supplemental information in the general info tab. So thank you for watching this video and if you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Thank you.