U.S. Documents (PMSPs, Crop Profiles) • Canadian Documents

U.S. Pest Management Strategic Plans
A Pest Management Strategic Plan (PMSP) is a document that identifies key pests driving pesticide use; identifies acceptable alternatives (if any) to those pesticides in use; details why other registered pesticides are not used (e.g., efficacy concerns, resistance concerns, etc.); and lists the necessary steps and timeline to "transition" an industry away from use of a particular pesticide or toward use of a new control method. Necessary transition steps might include accelerated registration of a pesticide currently in the registration pipeline; investigation into the biology of the pest to identify more sensitive points in its life cycle for better control; and/or determination of the economic cost to the industry if pesticide A were substituted for pesticide B, including what economic returns industry would need to survive that transition. To oversimplify, you could say a PMSP tells why you are doing what you are doing now, then gives a step-by-step blueprint for how you can do it differently and still stay in business. PMSPs are often a combined effort involving more than one state. The profiles in which Washington State has been involved are linked to the buttons below. To view profiles from other states or regions, go to the national PMSP Web page. To view documents from Canada, go to the bottom section of this page.

Washington State Crop Profiles
In response to a 1998 request by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Pest Management Policy (USDA/OPMP), each state is producing documents called "Commodity and Pest Management Profiles" or "crop profiles" for short. Below are links to Washington State's crop profiles in easy-to-read, printable PDF format. (PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you may download free of charge.) If you would prefer the documents in HTML format or if you would like to view profiles from other states, go to the national crop profiles Website.

Canadian Documents
The Pest Management Centre at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is developing both Crop Profiles and Issues Documents, which are analogs to US PMSP documents. These web pages also list specific issue working groups and contain information on pesticide risk reduction strategies developed in conjunction with Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA).