For those of you interested in farming organically and curious about the business of it, this seminar, to be held June 22 at the UC Cooperative Extension office in Salinas and attached below, should be of interest.

If you at all have any production relationship to caneberries, you should not miss this caneberry meeting.  My colleague Mark Gaskell has brought in caneberry experts from around the country to put together probably the best caneberry meeting we have ever had!

Meeting will take place February 3 at the Veteran's Memorial Building on 780 Bello Street in Pismo Beach, California.  Sign in starts at 8 am, meeting starts at 815 am.

Agenda posted below.

For those of you of who haven't received the notification for this meeting, it is really one to consider going.

Presentations and posters by top University and industry scientists on a wide variety of topics, yours truly has like four.  Well worth the time and money for anybody involved in strawberry production and research.

Announcement included in the pdf below, if you register before December 31 there is an early bird discount.

Colleague Surendra Dara is holding his annual strawberry production research meeting this upcoming November 12 (Wednesday).  UCCE heavy hitters Steve Fennimore, Oleg Daugovish, Surendra Dara and myself will be joined by Strawberry Commission researcher Hillary Thomas and a representative from the Santa Barbara Agricultural Commissioner's office. 

Topics to covered will be discussions of fumigation alternatives, mites, lygus, vinegar flies and a demonstration of the smartphone app "IPMInfo".

Another major extension event put on by UCCE - don't miss it!