8:00 AM

On-site Registration & Coffee

8:30

Welcome to Participants

8:45

Updates for the Citrus Production Industry

9:00

The CDFA-Funded Irrigation Training Initiative and Survey of Training Topics

Session 1: Basic Principals & Information for Irrigation Management

9:20

Soil-Plant-Water Relations for Citrus

9:40

Methods and Tools for Irrigation Scheduling in Citrus

10:00

Assessing Soil and Tree Water Status for Irrigation Scheduling: Various Methods and Tools

10:20

Break

10:40

Strategies for Citrus Irrigation Management

11:00

Design Criteria and Maintenance of Resource-Efficient Micro-Irrigation Systems

11:20

Micro-Irrigation System Evaluation, Performance Measures and Corrective Actions

11:40

Questions

12:00 PM

Lunch

Session 2: Information Developed Through Recent Research Efforts

12:40

Results from Past Research on Citrus Water Use

1:00 

Overview on the CDFA- Funded Research Project on Citrus ET and Preliminary Results

1:20

Scheduling Irrigation in Citrus with an Internet of Things (IoT) Platform

1:40

Hardware and Software Components for Automated Implementation of Irrigation Schedules at Field and Farm Scales

2:00

Frost Protection Using Frost Fans, Inversion Towers and Data Fusion

2:20

Assessing Citrus Canopy Features from Drone Remote Sensing

2:40

Break

Session 3: Water Management & Regulatory Aspects

3:00

Citrus Irrigation Management Under Drought

3:20

Using CropManage for Irrigation and Nutrient Management of Citrus

3:40

Statewide Citrus Acreage Mapping and Future Consumed Water Estimates through Remote Sensing

4:00

Update on the Water Regulations for the San Joaquin Valley

4:20

Questions

4:30

Meeting Adjourn