Rachel Kempker from Iowa State University designed an iPiPE Post Card which will be sent to specialists, growers, and crop consultants. It encourages stakeholders to tweet images of soybean disease (@soydisease) found in their fields.  Her motto is: "Scout, Snap and Share what you're finding in your field!" 

Paul O'Connor and Nicole Foley, iPiPE Interns in the 2017 Apple (New York/New England) Crop-Pest Program have created an interesting video showing psudothecium removal from an apple leaf (https://plus.google.com/photos/photo/102587176979889664215/6411549232833943122?icm=false&sqid=102290311899614601087&ssid=184e98dc-606e-4c5b-bab4-8ddef0f5e5670).
Using a small hook, the leaf's cuticle is peeled back, allowing access to the pseudothecium itself, which is then placed on a slide, topped with a coverslip and gently squashed to reveal the asci housed within it. Ten pseudothecia per slide (two pseudothecia from each leaf of a five leaf sample) are removed, and analyzed for ascus maturity and spore count under greater magnification. 

iPiPE Intern Alma Olguin scouting for sugarcane aphid in sorghum was featured in Texas AgriLife Pest Cast, (Issue 1, March 31, 2017), The Row Crops Newsletter for the LRGV, a cooperative project of Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Cotton and Grain Producers of the lower Rio Grande Valley.

The iPiPE Participnat Mixer for Year 3 (iPmx3) was held in Raleigh, North Carolina on January 31-February 01, 2017.  Check Posters and Photos at https://sites.google.com/site/ipipeed/annual-meetings/ipmx3.

An interesting article about the issues raised by one-size-fits-all, prophylactic crop management approaches. 

Ashley Van Vliet and Kathleen Reyes, iPiPE summer interns at the University of California Cooperative Extension - Riverside County working with Dr. Vonny Barlow, have produced two UC internet blogs describing the results of their work with Brown stink bug in California’s southern desert:

http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22018  -  iPiPE: a current platform for collaboration efforts in creating “progress through sharing” in the agricultural industry.

http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22016  - Brown Stink Bug, Euschistus servus: Cotton Losses Update

Rachel Kempker, iPiPE Intern at Iowa State University, Extension and Outreach, has created a video entitled "Capturing Crop Disease Photos with your Mobile Device".

Alfalfa Growers in California are now able to take the online iPiPE  survey of  IPM practices at  http://survey.ncsu.edu/IPM/CAalfalfa.