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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad P-IE: IPM - Field Crops 1

Edamame IPM: It’s not your grandfather’s soybean pest management program

Monday, November 1, 2021
8:24 AM – 8:36 AM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 1
In-Person Student Competition

    Presenting Author(s)

  • Kemper Sutton

    Graduate Research Assistant
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Blacksburg, Virginia

    • Co-Author(s)

  • Thomas P. Kuhar

    Professor
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Blacksburg, Virginia

  • SR

    Steven Rideout

    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Blacksburg, Virginia

  • HD

    Helene Doughty

    Virginia Tech Eastern Shore AREC
    Painter, Virginia

Edamame, also known as the vegetable soybean, is a novel crop to the mid-Atlantic. While upwards of 90% of our edamame is grown overseas, increasing consumer demand in the United States demonstrates the need to develop edamame production in the Mid-Atlantic. Expanding edamame production in the Mid-Atlantic requires determining edamame varieties suitable for regional growing conditions as well as the need to develop suitable IPM practices. For this study, I evaluated pest pressure on 74 varieties of edamame in two regions of Virginia (Eastern Shore and Whitethorne) from 2018-2021. During the same period I also assessed the use of IPM strategies to manage pest pressure. Preliminary data suggests differing pest pressures among varieties and that an IPM program can be effectively used for key pests while reducing the number of sprays.