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insecticide and herbicide use among BIFS growers confirms the findings of oth-
ers that weather has had the greatest impact (Zhang et al. 2004).
10. Ohmart's (1998) data provides the baseline, and Dlott (2004) describes the
changes as a result of 5 subsequent years of commission efforts. They used vir-
tually identical survey questions. All data is reported by growers and subject to
their bias. The data in table 7.1 is in response to the question “As a result of the
commission's efforts I. . . .” Monitoring more frequently went from 66 percent
(1998) to 78 percent (2003). Monitoring more systematically jumped from 49
percent to 70 percent. Increased monitoring of beneficial insects stayed roughly
the same. The growers were asked “Do you spend more time monitoring per trip
to vineyard?” The number reporting spending more time monitoring increased
from 55 percent to 63 percent. In 1998, Ohmart received 288 of 608 surveys
mailed (a 47 percent response rate). In 1993, Dlott received 307 of 712 (a 43 per-
cent response rate).
11. See Bisson et al. 2002.
12. On other eco-label initiatives, see SAREP 1998, Central Coast Vineyard
Team 2000, and Warner in review (b).
13. On the Code's initial progress, see Dlott 2004.
14. To help rationalize pesticide regulatory decision making, the USDA created
a program to help growers and their organization formalize crop-specific knowl-
edge about pests. All of California's perennial-crop commodity organizations
with partnerships have developed “Pest Management Strategic Plans.”
Chapter 8
1. On endocrine disruptors, see Colborn, Dumanoski, and Meyers 1996. This
case study is based on interviews with Deana Sexson, Sarah Lynch, Carolyn
Brickey, and Jeff Dlott, and supplemented with data from Gordon 2002 and
Lynch et al. 2000.
2. On the IPM continuum and bioIPM, see Benbrook 1996.
3. These five points are from Lynch et al. 2000.
4. See Benbrook 1996. On the toxicity index, see Benbrook et al. 2002 and
Lynch et al. 2000.
5. On Colorado potato beetle area-wide management, see Sexson and Wyman
2005.
6. Information taken from Morse 2004.
7. For more on this, see Land Institute 2003 and Glover 2005.
8. On the Fund for Rural America, see Marshall 2000.
