Charles R. Patrick

Professor, Field Crop Insects
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
University of Tennessee

West TN Research and Education Center

605 Airways Blvd.

Jackson, TN 38301

Phone: (731) 425-4713

Fax: (731) 425-4720

Email: russ1212@utk.edu

Education: Clemson University, Auburn University and Mississippi State University.

Development of the Stored Grain IPM Program in Tennessee to provide grain producers with the latest information and procedures to control insects in farm stored grain. This program has allowed producers who store grain on their farms to prevent and even eliminate insect pests in their grain bins. Additional IPM Programs include the Soybean IPM and Corn IPM programs for delivery of the most recent developments in those crops of insect pest control recommendations. A Pheromone trapping program is also associated with Corn IPM to alert producers of potential pest problems in corn. Traps are placed in corn fields that have had problem insect pests such as the southwestern corn borer and black cutworms.