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Yuba/Sutter/Colusa Walnut Day set for Feb. 12

Feb 5, 2009 10:12 AM

When: Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009

1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Where: Veterans Memorial Hall

1425 Veterans Memorial Drive, Yuba City, Calif.

Program

12:30 p.m. – Registration

1:00 p.m. – Welcome and Introduction, Janine Hasey, UC Farm Advisor

— Considerations when Replanting Walnuts, Mike McHenry, UC Extension Nematologist, Kearney Ag Center

— Using Pheromones for Codling Moth Suppression, Carolyn Pickel UC-IPM Area Advisor, Yuba City

— Future Directions in Walnut Blight Management, Jim Adaskaveg, Plant Pathologist, UC Riverside

Break

— Moderator, John Edstrom, UC Farm Advisor, Colusa County

— Laws and Regulation Update, Jan Kendel, Sutter County AG Department

— Research Updates and a New Disease of Black Walnut, Janine Hasey, UC Farm Advisor, Sutter/Yuba Counties

— Marketing “the Big One”, Michelle McNeil, Marketing Director, California Walnut Board

4:00 – Adjourn

Sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension and Sutter County Ag Department

PCA and CCA Credits pending

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