Almond Pest Management
Field Day
Sponsored by the
University of California Cooperative Extension
And the Almond Pest
Management Alliance
December
17, 2003
Stanislaus
County Agriculture Center, 3800 Cornucopia Way, Modesto
9:00
– 12:00
9:00 Newly
Proposed Dormant Spray Regulations
Marshall Lee, Senior Environmental Research Scientist,
California Department of
Pesticide Regulation
9:20 Discharges
from Irrigated Lands – Conditional Waiver of Waste Discharge Requirements
Central Valley Regional Water Control Board
9:40 Ag
Waiver Coalition
Wayne Zipser, Executive Manager, Stanislaus County Farm Bureau
10:00 What have we learned from our five year comparison of almond pest management programs?
Roger Duncan, UC Cooperative Extension, Stanislaus County
Merlyn Garber, grower
Art Bowman, pest control advisor, Salida Ag Chem
10:30
Break
10:50 Panel discussion – How bad were rejects this year, what was the cause and what changes should we make in the future?
·
Rob Kiss, Blue Diamond Growers: Statewide reject
statistics
·
TBA: 2003 NOW & PTB flights and treatment
decisions.
·
Walt Bentley: Pest management strategies for 2004
11:30
Fall monitoring to determine need for dormant sprays
Walt Bentley, Entomology
Advisor, UC Kearney Ag Center
3 hours of continuing education credits offered, including 1 hour of laws and regs.