Mark your calendar and register online for the upcoming UCCE Vineyard Pest and Disease Management Seminar to be held on Nov. 4, 2016 in San Luis Obispo. This meeting has been approved for 4.5 hours of DPR Continuing Education credits and CCA credits have been applied for.
Registration webpage:
http://ucanr.edu/ucceviticulture
Meeting information:
Date: Nov. 4, 2016
Time: 9:00 - 15:00
Location: Veterans Memorial Building, 801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo
Cost: $100 per person (includes refreshments and lunch)
Schedule:
8:30 - 9:00 Check in and refreshments
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction and overview of pest and disease issues
Mark Battany, UCCE San Luis Obispo
9:10 - 9:30 Development of disease resistant rootstocks
Andy Walker, UC Davis Viticulture and Enology
9:30 - 9:50 Impact of Red Blotch Disease on grape and wine composition
Anita Oberholster, UC Davis Viticulture and Enology
9:50 - 10:10 Update on Red Blotch Vectors
Cindy Preto, UC Davis Entomology and Nematology
10:10 - 10:30 Developing grapevine leafroll management strategies
Monica Cooper, UCCE Napa
10:30 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:00 Pierce's Disease biology and management in California vineyards
Matt Daugherty, UC Riverside Entomology
11:00 - 11:20 Managing weeds to avoid resistance issues
Paul Verdegaal, UCCE San Joaquin
11:20 - 11:40 Bud necrosis and fertility
George Zhuang, UCCE Fresno
11:40 - 12:00 Sprayer calibration
Lynn Wunderlich, UCCE Central Sierra
12:00 - 13:10 Lunch
13:10 - 13:30 Powdery mildew overview
Lindsay Jordan, UCCE Madera
13:30 - 13:50Sulfur for powdery mildew control
Larry Bettiga, UCCE Monterey
13:50 - 14:10 Powdery mildew and botrytis research update
Allison Ferry-Abee, UCCE Tulare
14:10 - 14:30 The integration of phenology screening into pest resistant rootstock breeding programs
Jean Dodson, Cal Poly Wine and Viticulture
14:30 - 15:00 Improving insecticide controls for mealybugs - following the movement of insecticides in the vine
Kent Daane, UCCE Kearney Ag Research Center