2020 Annual UCCE Strawberry Production Research Meeting

This year's UCCE Annual Strawberry Production Research meeting will take place on February 5 and will be held at the Salinas Sports Complex (also known as the Rodeo Grounds) on Main Street. 

For those of you who are wondering why such a big move for a meeting which has been held in Watsonville for decades, I will share with you that this decision was taken out of consideration for the safety and comfort of our guests.  The Elk's Lodge is really only built for 180 people, yet this meeting regularly draws upwards of 250.  We needed a larger space, and thanks as always to the super collaborative work with Joy Jacobs of the California Strawberry Commission, we have a space that fits the bill.

Agenda is included in the jpeg below for printing, but I noticed that it's very small, so include it here too in the body of the text:

2020 UCCE Annual Strawberry Production Research Meeting

February 5, 2020

Salinas Sports Complex, 1034 N. Main Str., Salinas, CA

 

8:00 -8:30             Registration and Sign In. No Fee.

8:30- 8:50             A Discourse on the Zygomycetes

                                Mark Bolda, UCCE, Santa Cruz County

8:50 – 9:00           The Climate Smart Agriculture Program

                                Valerie Perez, UCCE, Santa Cruz County

                               

9:00 - 9:20            Laws and Regulations Update, 2020

                                Heather Healy, office of Monterey Agriculture Commissioner

 

9:20 – 9:40           A Systems Approach to Managing Fusarium in Organic Strawberries

                                Joji Muramoto, UCSC     

 

9:40 – 10:00         A Systems Approach to Managing Fusarium in Conventional Strawberries

                                Peter Henry, USDA Salinas

 

10:00 -10:20        Combined Effects of Temperature and Inoculum Density on Fusarium oxysporum

                                Tom Gordon, UC Davis   

 

10:20-10:40         Biology and epidemiology of leaf blotch caused by Zythia on strawberry    

                                Akif Eskalen, UC Davis

10:45-10:50         The Climate Smart Agriculture Program

                              Valerie Perez, UCCE

 

10:40-11:05         Break

 

11:05-11:25         Accuracy of Genomic Selection for Resistance to Verticillium Wilt in a Strawberry Population Spanning 165 Years of Breeding

                                Dominique Pincot, UC Davis                          

11:25-11:45         Genomic Prediction of Hybrid Performance in Strawberry

                                Mitchell Feldmann, UC Davis

11:45-12:05         Use of Biodegradable Mulch and other Plastics in Strawberry

                                Carol Miles, Washington State University

 

12:05-12:25         Spray Rig Distribution Uniformity Optimization

                                Caleb Fink, California Strawberry Commission

                                Lygus bug vacuum development 

                                Jack Wells, California Strawberry Commission

               

12:30                     Conclusion of meeting

 

 

 

 

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