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2018 Annual Strawberry Production Research Meeting - First Call

Announcing the 2018 UCCE Annual Strawberry Production Research meeting.  Event will be held February 1 at the Watsonville Elk's Lodge and features a really good and interesting line up of speakers covering topics from fumigation alternatives, soil pathology, irrigation,  and nitrogen management.

Agenda below - hold the date!

 

2018 Annual Strawberry Production Research Meeting Agenda

Sustainable Berry Workshop Announcement

Announcing a collaborative Sustainable Berry Workshop this coming August 9.  This event is hosted by local business Farm Fuel Inc. and sponsored by UCCE and the Shennan Lab at UCSC.  This event, the only meeting being run out of this office this summer, will give people the opportunity to get a first rate perspective on what is new in soil pathology research, as well as how to obtain funding as a grower for implementing sustainable practices. 

Catered breakfast provided, translation available as well.  See you there!

Please register by emailing info@farmfuelinc.com

 

 

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A Quote from Nikola Tesla and a Meeting Announcement

I am currently reading "A Rabble of Dead Money" which is a depiction of the financial, military and political threads which ultimately led to the Great Depression in the United States.  Excellent read, but a striking quote which comes out of the second chapter is that of Nikola Tesla in reference to Thomas Edison's persistence in discovery - recall that he tested some 3000 variations of the light bulb before finally arriving at the incandescent bulb.  Tesla's quote is "a little theory and calculation would have saved (Edison) 90% of his labor".   Rationality and logic before perseverance and heroism.

Broken down a different way is that a lot of time can be spared by avoiding randomly testing variation after variation, ie guessing, to arrive at a desired result and instead think the problem through from what is known and then working toward the conclusion, either through calculation or by deduction.  Then and only then run the study.

I like this, especially since field testing of something like a fumigant alternative is an enormous undertaking and randomly testing stuff just to see if it works is not efficient at all.  Let's start by putting together what we know so far about the fumigant alternatives, what happens to the soil when we use them and then make some decisions on what to test from there.

Which we can very well do.  A good point to start would be a meeting being arranged by Farm Fuels, Inc. of some of the local greats of our soil science and pathology group which will meet this upcoming August 9 at the auditorium here at my office.  Looking to engage in discussion and get into some good takeaway advice.  More details to follow - save the date.

Were 3000 attempts really necessary to discover this light bulb?

Presentations Now Posted for 2017 Annual Caneberry Meeting

Ask and ye shall receive.  A good number of you have asked to see the powerpoints for the presentations from this last Caneberry Meeting and here they are.

I also understand that some were not able to make it out on Tuesday, for example dipping strawberry plants and the like, so even though you couldn't attend, nevertheless the presentations are here for your review.

http://ucanr.edu/2017 annual caneberry production research meeting 

A thank you to our speakers who did all of this work and made this wonderful event happen. 

2017 Annual Strawberry Production Research Meeting Presentations

All of the presentations from the strawberry meeting this past Friday are posted here.

Many thanks to all of the speakers for coming out and making this such a special event.

 

 

http://ucanr.edu/2017 annual strawberry meeting talks

HUGE thanks also to the Strawberry Commission for not only sponsoring the event, but also helping out so much in running this deal, which with over two hundred guests is a pretty large event for a couple of people to handle.

 

 

 

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