UC Vegetable Crops Continuing Conference

This annual in-service conference for University personnel with vegetable crops responsibilities was held December 9 - 11, 1996 at the University Club on the UC Davis campus. The 1997 Conference will be held on December 1-3, 1997 at the Alumni Center on the UC Davis campus. Contact the Vegetable Research and Information Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, 916-754-9618, for more information, or vric@vegmail.ucdavis.edu

1996 VEGETABLE CROPS WORKSHOP & TRAINING CONFERENCE December 9-11, 1996 University Club University of California, Davis
	COMMODITY GROUP SESSIONS
	Monday, December 9
10 am	Processing Tomato	Clubroom 1
1 pm	Potato	Clubroom 1
	Fresh Market Tomato	Clubroom 2
3 pm	Pepper	Clubroom 1
	Specialty Crops	Clubroom 2
5 pm	Asparagus	Clubroom 1
	Onion	Clubroom 2
	Tuesday, December 10
8 am	Cucurbits	Clubroom 1
	Cool Season Crops Clubroom 2
	Conference 10:30 am- 5:00 pm
10:30 am	Introduction
10:40 am	Vegetable Research & Information Center VRIC Website - Wayne Schrader, Farm Advisor, UCCE San Diego County
	VRIC: Status & Issues - Ron Voss, Extension Specialist & Director of VRIC, Vegetable Crops, UCD
11:45-1:00 pm	LUNCH - University Club
1:00 pm	VRIC Publications Update - Michelle LeStrange, Farm Advisor, UCCE Tulare County
	Farm Advisor/ Specialist / Faculty Updates
1:30 pm	West Side On-farm Demonstration Project Overview - Jeff Mitchell, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops, UCD (Kearney Ag. Center)
1:50 pm	Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Vegetable Fields - Louise Jackson, Assoc. Professor, Vegetable Crops, UCD
2:10 pm	Using Pre-sidedressing Soil Nitrate Testing to Guide N Application - Tim Hartz, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops, UCD
2:30 pm	Field Storage of Processing Tomato - Don May, Farm Advisor, UCCE Fresno County
2:50-3:10 pm	BREAK
3:10 pm	Sweet Onion Trials on the Central Coast - Mark Gaskell, Farm Advisor, UCCE Santa Barbara County
3:30 pm	Southeast Asian Vegetable Culture - Richard Molinar, Farm Advisor, UCCE Fresno County
3:50 pm	Causes and Prevention of Browning in Lettuce -Mikal Saltveit, Professor, Vegetable Crops, UCD
4:10 pm	Fresh-cut Vegetable Quality - Marita Cantwell, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops, UCD
6:00 pm	SOCIAL HOUR with Specialty Vegetable Tasting (No host bar)
7:00-9:00 pm	BANQUET - University Club Speaker: Sustainability - Past, Present & Future, Bill Liebhardt, Director, UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP)
	Wednesday, December 11
	Farm Advisor/Specialist/Faculty Updates
8:10 am	Powdery Mildew of Cucurbits - Jesús Valencia, Farm Advisor, UCCE Stanislaus County and Gerald Holmes, UCCE Imperial County
8:40 am	Verticillium Wilt - A New Threat on Lettuce - Krishna Subbarao, Specialist, Pl. Pathology, UCD (US Ag. Research Station, Salinas)
9:00 am	Economics of Weed Control in Iceberg Lettuce - Tim Prather, Regional IPM Advisor, Kearney Ag. Center
9:20 am	Colored Mulches: What are the Benefits - Jim Stapleton, Regional IPM Advisor, Kearney Ag. Center
9:40 am	Nutrient Behavior of Composts - Tim Hartz, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops, UCD
9:55-10:10 am	BREAK
10:10 am	Australian Applied Research & Technology Transfer Programs - Mike Murray, Farm Advisor, UCCE Colusa County
10:30 am	International Conference on Vegetable Diversification - Vince Rubatzky, Extension Specialist Emeritus, Vegetable Crops, UCD
10:50 am	Developments in Remote Sensing Technology Environmental monitoring - Mike Cahn, Farm Advisor, UCCE Sutter-Yuba Counties Aerial imaging - R. Ford Denison, Assoc. Professor, Agronomy & Range Science, UCD
11:50-1:15 pm	LUNCH - University Club
	Alternatives to Broad-Spectrum Fumigants in Field Production
1:15 pm	Weed Control - Milt McGiffen, Extension Specialist, Botany & Plant Sciences, UCR
1:45 pm	Nematode Control - Becky Westerdahl, Extension Specialist, Nematology, UCD
2:15 pm	Disease Control - John Duniway, Professor, Plant Pathology, UCD
2:45-3:00 pm	BREAK
3:00 pm	Alternatives to Broad- spectrum Fumigants in Post-Harvest Handling Elizabeth Mitcham, Postharvest Pomologist, Pomology, UCD; Marita Cantwell, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops, UCD; Trevor Suslow, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops, UCD
4:00 pm	ADJOURN