 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 a main crop. 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 in 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 to 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 we have the end-on link or site that we can look at, extension, in this case plant pathology, department of egg, 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. Sometimes you'll have to make decisions based on what is available to you or in this case, maybe just looking for more information. I'm going to click on monsoon, which is a tebiconazole 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 tebiconazole. For this, this is the frac group. This is the frac3 demethylation inhibitors, also known as the triazoles. Here we have a dose rate of fluid antispraker. 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 test 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 accent. And in the bottom here, you'll notice the 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 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 of 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 and foe 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.