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April 16th El Centro Field Day Features Alfalfa Drip Irrigation, Drought Strategies, Pest Management

By Daniel H Putnam

Water and Pest Management will be the focus of a field day be held April 16th at the UC Desert Research and Extension Center in Holtville, CA in the Imperial Valley. 7 a.m. through Noon.  Includes Lunch (sponsored by mOasis).  Come learn about water issues with alfalfa, pest management, and a range of crops from sugarbeet to king grass.

APPROVED CEU's: Certified Crop Adviser (CA 53247 – 4hrs.), CA CEU (M-0663-15 – 1hr.) &

AZ CEU (EXC-318-15A – 1hr.)

Here are the topics to be covered:

Alfalfa and Water Topics:

  • Update on the Drought—Daniele Zaccaria, UC Davis and Khaled Bali, UCCE, Imperial
  • Alfalfa production under Subsurface Drip Irrigation In Alfalfa—Dan Putnam, UC Davis
  • Design of Subsurface Irrigation in Alfalfa—Bryan Foley, Toro Micro-irrigation
  • Grower's Panel on Subsurface Drip irrigation – how it works in practice—John Summers, ACX  international
  • Alfalfa Crop Coefficients-How much water does Alfalfa Need?—Cayle Little, DWR, Sacramento
  • Automated Systems for Surface Irrigation—Tom Gill, USBR
  • Controls for Automated Gates—Philip Ray, Observant, Inc.
  • Advance Sensors for Automation—Alan Jackson, Rubicon Water
  • Flow rate measurements—Ron Nauman, SonTek, San Diego
  • Irrigation scheduling: What's Important—Khaled Bali, UCCE, Imperial
  • Alfalfa Soil Aeration Equipment—Geno Souza, Gearmore, Inc.
  • Alfalfa Varieties—Dan Putnam, UC Davis
  • Deficit Irrigation- how to deal with low water years—Dan Putnam, UC Davis, and Khaled Bali, UCCE, Imperial County
  • BoutiGel—Water Savings tested on Bell Pepper—Jose Aguiar, UCCE, Riverside County.
  • Blue Alfalfa Aphid Control—Eric Natwick, UCCE, Imperial County
  • Insect Pests of the Palo Verde Valley—Vonny Barlow, UCCE, Riverside County

Agronomic Crops:

  • Giant King Grass Trials in El Centro—Oli Bacchi, UCCE Imperial County, El Centro
  • Oil Crops For the Desert—Steve Kaffka, UC Davis
  • IR-4 Field Assessments for New Pesticides—Brent Boutwell, UCCE, Imperial County
  • Sorghum Forages For California—Bob Hutmacher, UC Specialist, UC Davis and West Side REC, Fresno Co.
  • How to Assess Possibilities of Biofuel Feedstocks for the Low Desert—David Grantz, Kearney Ag. Center, Fresno Co.
  • Sugarbeet Nitrogen and Irrigation Management under Flood and Drip Irrigation—Steve Kaffka, UC Davis
  • Cyst Nematodes in Sugarbeet—Becky Westerdahl, UC Davis

Source:ucanr.edu
 


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