- Author: Mark Bolda
UCCE Farm Advisor Mark Bolda will be providing a training on light brown apple moth (LBAM) that qualifies attendees to be an “approved scout” relating to the Compliance Agreement for shipment of berries to Canada. On completion of the brief training, attendees will receive a Certificate as a record of their participation.
This training will be held once in English and once in Spanish.
Where: UCCE Auditorium, 1432 Freedom Boulevard, Watsonville, CA
When: March 4 – 8:00-9:00 AM in English
March 5 – 8:00-9:00 AM in Spanish
No pre-registration necessary. All are welcome to attend, even if they do not intend to ship berries to Canada.
No continuing education hours will be offered at this meeting.
Please call Mark at (831) 763 8025 if you have any questions.
- Author: Mark Bolda
2014 Plant Disease Seminar
Thursday, November 13, 2014
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
**County of Monterey Agricultural Center— Conference Room**
1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, California
8:00 – 8:30 Registration for morning session (no charge).
8:30 – 9:00 2014 plant disease developments in coastal California
Steven Koike. UC Cooperative Extension, Monterey
9:00 – 9:30 Weeds as pathogen reservoirs: INSV case study
Richard Smith. UC Cooperative Extension, Monterey
9:30 – 10:00 Iris yellow spot virus of onion: coastal & statewide update
Tom Turini. UC Cooperative Extension, Fresno
10:00 – 10:30 Break: Sponsored by CAPCA, Monterey Bay Chapter
10:30 – 11:00 Challenges of spinach seed production
Jay Schafer.
11:00 – 11:30 Biology of Fusarium oxysporum & management of
Fusarium wilt of lettuce
Tom Gordon, University of California at Davis
11:30 – 12:00 Pre-plant soil preparation post methyl bromide:
where are we going from here?
Mark Bolda. UC Cooperative Extension, Santa Cruz
Continuing education credits are requested. Call ahead (at least 24 hrs.) for special needs arrangements; efforts will be made to accommodate full participation. For more information, contact Steven Koike (831-759-7350; 1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA 93901) or visit our website at http://cemonterey.ucdavis.edu.
Requirement from California DPR: Bring your license or certificate card to the meeting for verification when signing in for continuing education units.
- Author: Mark Bolda
Save the Date!
University of California Cooperative Extension
Monterey County
2014 Plant Disease Seminar:
First Announcement
Thursday, November 13, 2014
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
**County of Monterey Agricultural Center**
Conference Room
1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, California
This seminar will focus on a broad range of topics dealing with plant pathology and pest management. Topics will include updates on plant disease and pest developments in coastal California, research findings on plant diseases, and current issues affecting growers, pest control advisors, and other agricultural professionals dealing with vegetable and strawberry crops.
Registration/sign-in is from 8:00 to 8:30. There is no fee for this meeting. Continuing education credits will be requested. Please call ahead (at least 24 hours) for arrangements for special needs; every effort will be made to accommodate full participation. For more information, contact Steven Koike (831-759-7350; stkoike@ucdavis.edu, 1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, California 93901).
Requirement from California DPR: Bring your license or certificate card to the meeting for verification when signing in for continuing education units.
- Author: Mark Bolda
UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisors Shimat Joseph, Surendra Dara and Mark Bolda are holding a mite meeting in Spanish and English at the ALBA training facility at 1700 Old Stage Road in Salinas. All aspects of mite management will be covered, from proper identification of predatory, twospotted spider and Lewis mites, treatment thresholds, use of botanical and botanical controls, and aspects of chemical, cultural and biological control.
Meeting starts at 9 and will wrap up by 11 am. This promises to be a very good meeting.
- Author: Mark Bolda
This post is to announce a meeting on strawberry mineral nutrition to take place this coming January 30. I think it might be good to spend a little bit of time on the current salt situation as well, seeing as it is related to nutrition and water.
First presentation will be in Spanish, and the second in English, with translation provided for both.
Growers and PCA's - bring a copy soil and/or tissue sample analysis for review of sufficiencies/deficiencies/toxicities in our final exercise.
Look forward to seeing you there!
