1997 UC Vegetable Crops Continuing Conference

December 1-3, 1997

This annual in-service conference for University personnel with vegetable crops responsibilities was held December 1-3, 1997 at the University Recreation Pool Lodge on the UC Davis campus.
Contact the Vegetable Research and Information Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616,
530-752-1748 for more information or vric@ucdavis.edu

AGENDA

Monday, December 1
Location - Rec Pool Lodge

Time	Item	Location
10:00 - 12:00	Concurrent Workshops
	Comparision of Statistical Software	CAIT (Shields Library)
	Environmental Instrumentation	Mann Lab
	Producing Effective Presentations with PowerPoint	253 Hunt
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch on your own
1:00 - 3:00	Concurrent Workshops
	Comparision of Statistical Software	CAIT (Shields Library)
	Weed Identification and tour of Herbarium	140 Robbins
	Surfing the Web - How to find useful resources on the Internet	253 Hunt
3:00 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 5:30	Concurrent Workshops
	Producing Effective Presentations with PowerPoint	253 Hunt
	Surfing the Web - How to find useful resources on the Internet	21 Olson
	Tour of Faculty Laboratories	148 Asmundson
5:30 - 6:30	Set up posters	Rec Pool Lodge
6:30 - 7:00	Social time	Rec Pool Lodge
7:00 - 9:00	Dinner	Rec Pool Lodge

 

Tuesday, December 2

Time	Item	Location
8:00 - 8:10	Alan Bennett, Welcome	Rec Pool Lodge
8:10 - 8:25	Trevor Suslow Introduction to Good Agricultural Practices	Rec Pool Lodge
8:25 - 8:55	Linda Harris Overview of microbial risks and building a regional grower to consumer HACCP Program	Rec Pool Lodge
8:55 - 9:10	Trevor Suslow Issues of irrigation and process water and animal manure management	Rec Pool Lodge
9:10 - 9:40	Brian McElroy Issues and programs for organic farming	Rec Pool Lodge
9:40 - 10:00	to be arranged	Rec Pool Lodge
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:00	Jeff Farrar Case studies in California vegetable crops & building a partnership with regulators for sensible on-farm microbial safety standards	Rec Pool Lodge
11:00 - 11:30	Trevor Suslow Discussion	Rec Pool Lodge
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch - provided
1:15 - 1:30	Steve Fennimore Introduction and overview of his new program	Rec Pool Lodge
1:30 - 1:45	Gene Miyao Preplant starter fertilizer and herbicide evaluations on transplanted tomatoes	Rec Pool Lodge
1:45 - 2:00	Wayne Schrader Protective border plantings for ag-urban interfaces	Rec Pool Lodge
2:00 - 2:15	Carolyn Pickel Developing field applications for degree-days in row crops and vegetables	Rec Pool Lodge
2:15 - 2:30	Richard Molinar Mite studies on asian vegetables and strawberry research update	Rec Pool Lodge
2:30 - 2:45	Kent Bradford	Rec Pool Lodge
2:45 - 3:15	Break
3:15 - 3:30	John Yoder -	Rec Pool Lodge
3:30 - 3:45	Alan Bennett -	Rec Pool Lodge
3:45 - 4:00	Richard Michelmore -	Rec Pool Lodge
4:00 - 5:00	VRIC business and discussion of VC3	Rec Pool Lodge
5:00 - 7:00	Dinner - on your own
7:00 - 9:00	Commodity Group Session - Session Chair Asparagus Onion	Rec Pool Lodge

 

Wednesday, December 3

Time	Item	Session Chair	Location - Rec Pool Lodge
8:00 - 10:00	Potato Fresh Market Tomatoes	Ron Voss Michelle Le Strange	Upstairs Main Room
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 12:30	Cool Season Crops Processing Tomatoes	Louise Jackson Gene Miyao	Upstairs Main Room
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch - provided
1:30 - 3:15	Pepper Specialty Crops	Tim Hartz Mark Gaskell	Main Room Upstairs
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 5:30	Cucurbits No-till/Mulch Systems	Jesus Valencia Jeff Mitchell	Main Room Upstairs

Please check the list of workgroup members for your name. If there are any changes or additions please email vric@ucdavis.edu.