| 8:30 AM |
Registration |
| 8:50-9:00 |
Welcome, introductions (Moderator: Tim Hartz) |
| 9:00-12:00 PM |
Farm Advisor and Specialist research updates (Moderator: Rob Wilson and Joe Nunez) |
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- UC IPM update and new strategic plan—Jim Farrar, UC IPM
- Update on the detection of Tomato Necrotic Dwarf Virus (ToNDV) in a late season tomato plot in Kern county—Bob Gilbertson, Plant Pathology, UC Davis
- Update on organic potato production—Rob Wilson, Intermountain Research & Extension Center
- Update on cool season production—Richard Smith, Monterey county
- New crop protection products against plant parasitic nematodes—Ole Becker, Nematology, UC Riverside
- Vegetable crops and new crops program update—Jose Aguiar, Riverside county
- Recent pest problems in northern central coast vegetables—Shimat Joseph, Monterey county
- Update on southern blight and curly top of tomatoes—Joe Nunez, Kern county
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| 12:00-1:00 PM |
Lunch (Sacramento Room) |
| 1:00-4:30 |
Pest Management Research session (Moderator: Brenna Aegerter and Shimat Joseph) |
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- Egyptian broomrape: parasitic weed discovery in a commercial tomato field and resulting quarantine and eradication effort
- Radi Aly, visiting scientist, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Israel and
- Gene Miyao, Yolo-Solano-Sacramento counties
- CGMMV outbreak in California watermelons: an update on regulatory impacts and UC research
- Brenna Aegerter, San Joaquin county
- Tera Pitman, Plant Pathology, UC Davis
- Coastal vegetables: disease developments and Farm Advisor diagnostic errors—Steve Koike, Monterey county
- Management of garden symphylans in vegetables—Shimat Joseph, Monterey county
- New whitefly transmitted virus infecting cucurbit crops in California—Eric Natwick, Imperial county
- Recent Consperse stink bug research in central California processing tomatoes—Tom Turini, Fresno county
- Another new stink bug pest? Bagrada bug moves into central and northern California—Larry Godfrey, Entomology, UC Davis
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| 4:30 PM |
On-site social hour (Sacramento Room) |
| 8:00-11:40 AM |
Water issues session (Moderator: Tim Hartz) |
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- Potential effects of an El Nino event on California agriculture—Tapan Pathak, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, UC Merced
- Potential for groundwater banking on agricultural land—Toby O’Geen, Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis
- Land subsidence in the Central Valley—Michelle Sneed, USGS
- On-farm measurement of evapotranspiration—Tom Shapland, Tule Technologies
- Integrating technologies to improve irrigation management—Olivier Jerphagnon, PowWow Energy
- Nitrogen regulation coming to a farm near you—Tim Hartz, Plant Sciences, UC Davis
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| 11:40-12:30 PM |
Trends in North American tomato markets, Roberta Cook, Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Davis |
| 12:30-2:00 |
Working lunch (Moderator: Tim Hartz) |
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| 2:00 PM |
Adjourn |
