Day 1 Agenda
Monday, May 16, 2022
Day 1 Focus: General airblast spray application practice and equipment, and emerging technology.
(NB: Separate links and instructions to join each session will be emailed to registrants.)
| Moderator: Peter Ako Larbi, CE Agricultural Application Engineering Specialist, Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, UC ANR | ||
| Start Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 8:00 am | Opening and Purpose | Peter Ako Larbi, CE Agricultural Application Engineering Specialist, Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, UC ANR |
| 8:15 | Welcome Address | Glenda Humiston, Vice President, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| 8:20 | [Video] From flight to rest - The journey of a droplet | |
| 8:30 | IPM and the place of Spray Application | Lynn Wunderlich, UCCE Farm Advisor, Central Sierra |
| 9:00 | BREAK | |
| 9:05 | Keynote: Crop Adapted Spraying - Doing More With Less | Jason Deveau, Application Technology Specialist, OMAFRA |
| 9:50 | BREAK | |
| Moderator: George Zhuang, Viticulture Advisor, UCCE Fresno County | ||
| Start Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 9:55 am | Airblast Spraying Fundamentals and Equipment | Ken Giles, Professor Emeritus, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis |
| 10:35 | Drift management: Nozzle selection, maintenance, and weather considerations | Franz Niederholzer, CE Orchard Systems Advisor, Colusa and Sutter/Yuba Counties |
| 11:10 | BREAK | |
| 11:15 | Sprayer calibration basics | Peter Ako Larbi, CE Agricultural Application Engineering Specialist, Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, UC ANR |
| 11:45 | Advances in spray technology | Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel, Regional Extension Specialist, WSU, Director, Benton County |
| 12:15 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| Spray Effectiveness and Airblast Alternative Session |
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| Moderator: Phoebe Gordon, Advisor, UCCE Madera County | ||
| Start Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 1:00 pm | Spray Backstop: A Method to Reduce Orchard Spray Drift | Alireza Pourreza, Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis |
| 1:20 | Agricultural Spraying Safety and Health | Farzaneh Khorsandi, Assistant Professor, and Fraz Ahmad Khan, Visiting Scholar, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis |
| 1:40 | Airblast Alternative: Solid Set Spray Systems | Matthew Grieshop, Director, The Grimm Family Center for Organic Production and Research, Cal Poly |
| 2:00 | BREAK | |
| 2:05 | Airblast Alternative: UAV sprayers | Ken Giles, Professor Emeritus, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis |
| 2:25 | Panel: Efficiency and effectiveness of spray application - moderated by Phoebe Gordon |
Click to see more information about panelists Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel
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| 3:05 | ADJOURN | |
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