Pest management plans written in compliance with the NRCS 595 Pest Management Standard are required to have an environmental risk analysis for all pesticides outlined in the plan. Currently, the NRCS Windows based Pesticide Screening Tool (WIN-PST) and the Wisconsin WIN-PST Quick Reference Guide are the only tools available for this purpose.Updated tables are now available on the IPCM website for conducting the risk analysis.

The previous reference guide was a popular tool for plan writers, but its focus was primarily on corn, soybean, alfalfa, and potatoes. The reference guide was of limited use to pest management plan writers serving cliental that grow specialty crops such as apples, cherries, cranberries and processing crops. This omission has been fixed with the development of three additional reference guides that cover apples, cherries and cranberries. The fourth table contains the hazard ratings for corn, soybean, alfalfa and potatoes; however it has been expanded to include the hazard ratings for commercial vegetable production.

Click each link to download the tables: