The Crop Protection Network Offers Expanding Continuing Education for CCAs

January 24, 2023

The Crop Protection Network (CPN) is pleased to announce a new online video educational series for CCAs, providing streamlined and easily accessible continuing education content through a new multimedia platform: CPN TV.

The Crop Protection Network was formed in 2015 by a small group of land grant university faculty to provide crop disease education to farmers and industry. Since that time, it has expanded to other crop protection disciplines and produces multiple types of outreach, including publications, web tools, videos, and podcasts. Nearly 200 specialists from more than 30 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces contribute to the network.

Today, the CPN is a multi‐state and international partnership of university, provincial Extension specialists, and public and private professionals that provides unbiased, research‐based disease and pest management information related to protecting alfalfa, corn, small grains, and soybean. The goal of CPN is to enhance the visibility and success of agricultural extension while providing important crop protection information.

The Crop Protection Network offers an expanding suite of tools for CCAs as well as a large library of crop disease and pest management research articles, encyclopedia shorts, and yield loss calculators designed specifically for CCAs, researchers, and agribusiness personnel. It also helps Extension specialists with crop pest management education efforts across the United States and into Canada. Outreach developed by CPN is widely applicable, and multiple experts contribute. It functions to help both the Extension worker and the farmers and agriculture industry that Extension serves.

CPN TV

CPN TV is an expanding series initially featuring 11 video episodes covering many different topics featured on www.cropprotectionnetwork.org. Explore a wide range of videos from Extension experts from multiple land grant universities as they cover a variety of crop protection issues, including plant disease forecasting, corn nematodes, best management practices for soybean planting, and more. Certified Crop Advisers can earn multiple CEUs by passing a short quiz after watching each video.

In addition to CEU opportunities through CPN TV videos, CPN also offers CEUs on a variety of research publications found in the CPN library. With an expanding list of more than 50 different quizzes available for five different crops, there is continuing education available for all interests.

To learn more about CPN TV or explore other CEU options available through the CPN, follow @CropNetwork on Twitter or visit the CPN website at www.cropprotectionnetwork.org.

CPN TV January Episode List

Antimicrobial Resistance from Fungicide Use Can Affect Public Health
Bringing Plant Disease Forecasting Science to the 21st Century Farm
Collaboratively Delivering Soybean Best Management Practices for Soybean Planting
Corn Nematodes and Their Management in Hybrid Corn
Corn Rootworm Management: Insecticide, and Plant Trait Use/Resistance Considerations in the Transgenic Era
Cover Crops and Weed Management
Disease Management: When to DIY and When to CAP
Managing Insecticide‐Resistant Soybean Aphid
RNAi as a Tool in Crop Management
Taking the Headache out of Managing Phytophthora in Soybean
Implications of the EPA Atrazine Review

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