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Suzanne Bissonnette
Extension Educator, Integrated Pest Management
Since 1992, Suzanne has been an Integrated Pest Management Extension Educator with University of Illinois Extension. Suzanne provides leadership in identifying, managing and controlling weed and insect pests, disease diagnosis and control, for commercial row crops and for urban pest management. She is responsible for educating agriculturists about IPM technologies to aid in the management of economic pests of field crops as well as conducting applied field research to demonstrate and investigate IPM principles and concepts. She is co-director of the U of I Extension Online Plant Diagnostic Clinic, editor of the Illinois Pest Management Handbook and Coordinator of the Champaign Extension Center. Suzanne received her B.S in 1984 in Botany at the University of Minnesota, her M.S. in 1987 and Ph. D. in 1992 in Plant Pathology at the University of Illinois, C-U.
Professional Affiliations
*American Phytopathological Society (APS) 1985-present
*North Central Regional Phytopathological Society 1985-present
*Gamma Sigma Delta Honorary Society of Agriculture 1989-present
*National Association of County Agricultural Agents 1993-present
*Illinois Extension Agricultural Association (IEAA) 1993-present
Program Offerings
Traditional Core Programming:
- Private Pesticide Applicator Training Clinics
- Homeowner Pesticide Safety Master Gardeners
- Crop Days, Agronomy Days, Field Days Speaker
Indepth Workshops:
Areas of Expertise:
- Plant Pathology: diseases of corn, soybeans, wheat and other commercial row crops
- Integrated Pest Managmeent (IPM): specializing in management of disease, insect and weed pests in field crops
- Biological, cultural and chemical control of diseases, insects and weeds in field and forage crops
- Identification and diagnosis of disease, insect and weed problems in field crops
- Scounting for diseases,insects and week problems in field crops and use of economic thresholds for management decisions
- Scout training for identification of disease, insect and weed pests of field crops
- Current issues in IPM
- Soybean cyst nematode management, resistance and outlook
- Management of root and stem diseases in soybean, especially soybean cyst nematode, sudden death syndrome and white mold
- Management of foliar diseases in corn and wheat
- GMO's, genetic engineering, what is it, do we need it environmentally, economically?
- The use of transgenic crops for pest control, European corn bore, rootworm
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