Peter B. Goodell,
IPM Advisor
Associate IPM Director/KAC
Interim Director, Statewide IPM Program
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 1986

Research Statement
As a member of the UC Statewide IPM Program, my primary mission is to develop and deliver IPM tactics and strategies to the San Joaquin Valley. I deal with insects and nematodes on field crops including cotton, alfalfa seed, dry beans and forage. My work takes on a system approach that encompasses crop and pest interactions, ecological landscapes and development of community-based IPM programs. I support the programs of County Farm Advisors by providing expertise and educational support for local farmers and pest control advisers. Current projects include:

Extension Statement
Taking research information developed on campus or at Centers and adapting it to local conditions is the primary objective of Cooperative Extension. Using stakeholder participatory approaches, my outreach programs are locally developed to address statewide issues such as reducing agriculture’s footprint on environmental quality while maintaining he productivity of California’s farms.

Administration Statement
As the IPM Extension Coordinator for Statewide IPM Program, I am responsible for coordinating and reviewing activities of the eight IPM Advisors throughout California. In addition, I meet annually with IPM Coordinators from the Western States and Territories to review and discuss IPM issues at the regional and national level.

Cotton IPM web site

Whitefly web site

Munier, D.J., P.B. Goodell, and J.F. Strand. 2004. Accuracy of cotton-planting forecasts assessed in the San Joaquin Valley.  California Agriculture. 58:3:164-168. http://calag.ucop.edu/0403JAS/pdfs/cotton.pdf.

Summers, C.G., P. B. Goodell, and S. C. Mueller. 2004. Managing Lygus Bugs by Manipulating Alfalfa Harvest. Encyclopedia of Pest Management. Marcel Dekker. DOI: 10.1081/E-EPM 120019165

Godfrey, L.D.,  K.E. Keillor, P.B. Goodell, S.D. Wright, M.R. McGuire,  J. Bancroft, and R.B. Hutmacher. Improvement in sampling and management of late-season insect pests in San Joaquin Valley Cotton. 2004. Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Production Research Conferences. San Antonio, TX Pages 1578-1583.  http://www.cotton.org/beltwide/proceedings/

Goodell, P.B. 2004. Impact of organophosphates on cotton IPM. Abstract for 88^th Annual Pacific Branch Meetings, Entomological Society of America. http://pbesa.prosser.wsu.edu/abs.doc

Goodell, P.B. 2004. Managing Lygus in an ecological context. Abstract for 88^th Annual Pacific Branch Meetings, Entomological Society of America. http://pbesa.prosser.wsu.edu/abs.doc 

L. D. Godfrey, P. B. Goodell, E. T. Natwick, D.R. Haviland. 2005. Insects and Mites. In UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Cotton. ANR Publication 3444, February 2005.

Mueller, S. C., Summers, C. G., Goodell, P. B. 2005. Strip cutting alfalfa for Lygus management: Forage quality implications. Online. Crop Management doi:10.1094/CM-2005-0506-01-RS. http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/pub/cm/research/2005/lygus/  

Goodell, P.B. and K. Lynn-Patterson. 2005. Managing Lygus in an ecological context. Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Production Research Conferences. New Orleans, LA. pp 1694-1701. http://www.cotton.org/beltwide/proceedings/2005/pdfs/2960.pdf.