Events

UC Riverside Citrus Day For Industry Jan. 31

Past Event:

Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013; 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.; UCR Agricultural Operations, Riverside, Calif.

Enter field from gate on west side of Canyon Crest Drive, south of Martin Luther King Blvd.

Please join us for a Citrus field day designed for citrus growers and citrus industry representatives. Pending approval, we will be offering 3 hours of Other and 1 hour of Laws and Regs for California Continuing Education Credit for Pest Control Advisers (PCA).

A separate Citrus Day for the general public will be announced in late January.

Presentations, field tours and topics:

· Citrus Variety Collection tours of Mandarins and Sweet Oranges and Lemons and Citrus Relatives

· Citrus Scion Breeding program

· Phytophthora root rot and trunk decay

· Asian Citrus Psyllid - detection, monitoring, and control

· Givaudan Citrus Flavor Design and Development

Barbeque Lunch and Short Lunch Time Presentation

Registration is $15. Space is limited so register early.

To register, please print the attached form or download the registration form at the UCR Citrus Variety Collection website: http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/.

Register now; there will be no walk-in registrations.

To make a tax-deductible contribution to the Citrus Variety Collection Endowment fund or the Citrus Research Center & Agricultural Experiment Station support fund go to the following link and select College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences then select the specific fund: https://advancementservices.ucr.edu/GivingForm.aspx.