Agenda

2016 Joint
Vegetable Crops Program Team and Weed Workgroup Meeting

December 5, 2016 - Activities & Recreation Center (ARC), UC Davis
December 6, 2016 - Activities & Recreation Center (ARC), UC Davis
December 7, 2016 - Bowley Center (Lecture Hall), UC Davis

Monday December 5, 2016

9:00 AM - Registration

9:50 AM - Welcome, introductions

10:00 AM - Farm Advisor research updates

Developing a new spinach breeding program for California—Charlie Brummer, UCD Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Breeding

The Yellow Pepper Problem—Janet Caprile, UCCE Contra Costa-Alameda

Recent changes in disease and insect management in vegetable crops in Fresno County—Tom Turini, UCCE Fresno

Grafted tomatoes: assessments in various California tomato production systems—Brenna Aegerter, UCCE San Joaquin and Margaret Lloyd, UCCE Yolo-Capitol Corridor

Industry and research update on pitahaya/Dragon fruit production in California—Ramiro Lobo, UCCE San Diego

Weed management in vegetables—Scott Stoddard, UCCE Merced-Madera

Fertilizer value of nitrogen in irrigation water—Mike Cahn, UCCE Monterey-Santa Cruz-San Benito

Coachella Valley agriculture update—Jose Aguiar, UCCE Riverside

12:00 PM - Working Lunch - Presentation of the Lorenz Award, VRIC business

1:30 PM - Regulatory/Sustainability Issues

Where is nitrogen regulation heading? —Johnny Gonzales, Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Statewide Coordinator, State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB)

Soil health and nutrient management within rhizosphere—Zahangir Kabir, NRCS Regional Soil Health Specialist

The Calif. Dept. of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Healthy Soils Initiative—Ami Gunasekara, CDFA Science Advisor

3:00 PM - Break

3:15 PM - Regulatory/Sustainability Issues cont.

Update on CropManage decision support tool—Mike Cahn, UCCE Monterey-Santa Cruz-San Benito

Adapting CropManage for processing tomato—Daniel Geisseler, UCD Land, Air & Water Resources

Adapting CropManage for Oxnard—Andre Biscaro, UCCE Ventura-San Bernardino-Los Angeles

Future for CropManage within ANR—Gabriel Youtsey, UCANR Communication Services and IT

4:30 PM - Adjourn for the day

Tuesday December 6, 2016: Joint Weed and Vegetable Workgroup

8:00 AM - Registration

8:20 AM - Welcome, introductions

8:30 AM - Pest Management Session

Weed management research update—Richard Smith, UCCE Monterey-Santa Cruz- San Benito

Bacterial canker on tomato—Gitta Coaker, UCD Plant Pathology

Environmental trade-offs of on-farm food safety policies and practices—Sasha Gennet, The Nature Conservancy

Fusarium on celery—Lynn Epstein, UCD Plant Pathology

Soil health and tomato IPM—Rachel Vannette, UCD Entomology & Nematology

10:30 AM - Break

10:45 AM - Self-introduction of new Program Team members

Amber Vinchesi, Vegetable Crops Advisor, UCCE Colusa-Sutter-Yuba
Aparna Gazula, Small Farms Advisor, UCCE Santa Clara-Santa Cruz-San Benito
Irwin Donis-Gonzalez, Assistant Postharvest Engineering CE Specialist, UCD Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Rebecca Ozeran, Assistant Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor, UCCE Fresno
Konrad Mathesius, Agronomy Advisor, UCCE Yolo-Sacramento-Solano
Maeli Melotto, Associate Professor, UCD Plant Sciences
Maggie Reiter, Environmental Horticulture Advisor, UCCE Fresno-Madera-Tulare-Kings
Whitney Brim-DeForest, Rice Advisor, UCCE Yuba-Sutter-Sacramento-Placer

12:10 PM - Lunch

1:00 PM - Labor issues session

Weed management costs with special focus on labor costs—Laura Tourte, UCCE Santa Cruz-San Benito-Monterey

California labor issues—Ed Taylor, UCD Agricultural & Resource Economics

California labor issues—Dan Sumner, UC Agricultural Issues Center and UCD Agricultural & Resource Economics

Farm labor issues from a grower representative perspective - Jim Bogart, Grower-Shopper Association of Central California

3:00 PM - Break

3:30 PM - Labor issues cont.

Harvest mechanization technology—Starvros Vougioukas, UCD Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Plant Tape Technology—Anthony Duttle, Tanimura and Antle

Thinner and weeder technology—Erik Ehn, Blue River Technologies

5:00 PM - Adjourn

Wednesday December 7, 2016

8:15 AM - 12:00 PM - Weed Workgroup - Bowley Plant Science Center, UC Davis (near Rec Pool)