This calendar is composed of outreach events related to agricultural management practices that align with FREP’s mission. To add an outreach event, contact us at frep@cdfa.ca.gov.
8:00 REGISTATION
8:30 Nutrient Management Issues in Caneberry Mark Bolda, UCCE Monterey
8:50 Primocane Blackberry and Raspberry Evaluations at Santa Paula and Oceano CA Mark Gaskell, UCCE SLO and Oleg Daugovish, UCCE Ventura
9:20 Runoff from Raspberry Tunnels: Evaluation of Management Practices Oleg Daugovish, UCCE Ventura
9:40 Miticide Effects on Spider Mites and Predatory Mites Anna Howell, UCCE Ventura
10:00 BREAK
10:10 Spotted-wing Drosophila (SWD) Management in Organic Blackberries Anna Howell, UCCE Ventura
10:30 SWD: Bait and Kill Strategy Mark Bolda, UCCE Monterey
10:50 Substrate/hydroponic Production Dwight Rowe, SunGro
11:20 Current Trends in Caneberry Production
12:00 Adjournement
To register, please go to this link: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=26552
7:45 Registration (free)
8:00 Production of organic baby spinach using buried drip irrigation
Ali Montazar, Irrigation Advisor UCCE, Imperial and Riverside Counties
8:30 Mitigating pesticides and sediments in tail water using polyacrylamide (PAM): a new approach
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
9:00 Full season nitrogen management of vegetables
Richard Smith, Vegetable Crops and Weed Science Advisor, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
9:30 Optimizing water management in celery using ET weather-based scheduling
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
10:00 Break
10:30 Region 5 water quality coalitions – demonstrating achievements in water quality
Parry Klassen, Executive Director, Coalition for Urban Rural Environmental Stewardship (CURES)
11:00 Evaluation of salinity effects on strawberry production
Andre Biscaro, Irrigation Water Resources Advisor, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties
11:30 Water and nitrogen management of Asian vegetables/SWEEP and Healthy soils programs
Aparna Gazula, Small Farms Advisor, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties
12:00 Grower Panel: Nitrogen Management in Practice
Saul Lopez, D’Arrigo Brothers; Mark Mason, Huntington Farms; and Sal Montes, Christiansen and Giannini
12:30 Pizza Lunch
CCA & DPR continuing education credits have been requested