- Author: Chris M. Webb
Our office occasionally receives questions related to winegrape production. We are happy to announce that UC Davis will be offering an intensive three-day course providing an in-depth, comprehensive study of winegrape production. Continuing education credits are available.
This short course will include lectures by county-based viticulture farm advisers and specialists within Cooperative Extension as well as by UCD campus-based faculty members of the Department of Viticulture and Enology.
Scheduled topics include:
- Physiology review
- Vineyard establishment
- Vineyard management
- Pest management
This event will be held in Freeborn Hall on the UC Davis campus March 1-3, 2011. Attendees must be 21 years of age or older to enroll and attend. For details and to register, please contact our office or click here.
- Author: Chris M. Webb
Ventura County Cooperative Extension’s Oleg Daugovish will hold a free commercial grower vegetable production and water management meeting Thursday, December 9 from 7:30am to 12:30pm. The meeting will be held at Freedom Center, 516 Eubanks Road in Camarillo.
Scheduled meeting topics are:
- Vegetable pathogens: recent and persistent pathogens of vegetable crops
- Weed control with drip activated herbicides in celery and cabbage
- Precision weed management tools in vegetable crops
- Update on Ag waiver regulations for the LA/Central Coast region
- Soil and water analyses, results and implications for Ventura County vegetable fields
- Best management practices for fertilizer management in coastal vegetable crops
- Insect pest management in warm and cool season vegetables
Lunch will be provided, and continuous education credits have been requested from DPR (Department of Pesticide Regulation).
For special arrangements, for questions or to register please contact Oleg Daugovish at (805) 645-1454 or at odaugovish@ucdavis.edu. Additional details can be found here.
- Author: Chris M. Webb
UC’s Nursery and Floriculture Alliance (UCNFA) has a variety of trainings, workshops, and webinars on topics of importance to the nursery and floriculture industry. Some of the education opportunities are free and others at a cost. Workshops and trainings are held throughout the state.
In November the ABC’s of Fertilizer Management will be held in Ventura County. On November 1 the topic will be taught in English and on November 2 in Spanish.
Education credits will be offered for the conditional waiver programs for the Central Coast and Ventura/Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Boards and for Certified Crop Advisors.
Click on the above links for details and to register.
- Author: Chris M. Webb
Ventura County Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Oleg Daugovish and collaborators recently held an alternative fumigants update meeting for local growers and stakeholders. Part of the meeting was devoted to alternative fumigants and emission reduction technologies data collection.
Much work is being done to asses tarp permeability of commercial films used in fumigation. In an effort to maximize fumigant effectiveness while reducing emissions, researchers are documenting changes in film properties under a variety of cultural practices as well as in various soil and environmental conditions.
This presentation has been archived on this page of our website with sound.
- Author: Chris M. Webb
On September 1 from 7:30 am – 12:30 pm, Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Oleg Daugovish will hold the 9th annual strawberry production meeting in Ventura County.
The meeting will be presented in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish. There is no cost to attend. Scheduled topics include:
- Strawberry varieties and production
- Plant collapse
- Biology and management
- Results from 2009-2010 field trials
- Strawberry establishment with drip irrigation
- Regulatory update
- Weed control
- Fungicide evaluations
- Lygus bug, vinegar fly and mite control
Lunch will be provided. Details can be found here. To register, request special arrangements, or to ask questions please contact Oleg by email or by phone at (805) 645-1454 by August 20.
