8Th Annual Best Management Practices Workshop
Managing and Diagnosing Disease Problems
November 30 – Pennyrile Firefighters/Area 2 State Fire-Rescue Training Building, 2001 Highway 62 West, Princeton, Kentucky
Princeton, Kentucky
Registration Fee: $35 Pre-registration; $40 day-of-event
Chair and Moderator: Jeremy Griffith, Extension Associate Nursery Crops, 270.365.7541 x 279 ; e-mail, j.griffith@uky.edu
Program
8:15 am –Introduction
8:30 am -10:30 am – The 20 Questions of Plant Problem Diagnostics – Joe Boggs- District Horticulture Specialist, Ohio State University
Break
10:45 am -12:00 pm- Over wintering Disease pathogens and the Problems They Can Cause. - Dr. John Hartman, UK Extension Professor for Plant Pathology
Lunch
1:00 pm -2:00 pm – The Relationship of Disease pathogens and Soil Properties - Dr. A.J. Powell, UK Extension Professor for Plant and Soil Science - Turfgrass
2:00 pm. -3:00 pm – Plant Compatibility in Landscape Beds and Disease Resistant Plant Selection. – Dr. Winston Dunwell, Extension Professor for Horticulture - Nursery Crops
Break
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm –– How the Drought 0f 2007 will affect Disease Problems in the Landscape – , Paul Bachi, UKREC - UK Plant Pathology Diagnostician
Registration Fee: $35 Pre-registration; $40 day-of-event