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Integrated Pest Management School is March 7
By
Laura Skillman
PRINCETON, Ky. (Feb. 7, 2007) – Higher corn prices are driving
expectations that producers will bring fallow land back into
production. University of Kentucky soil specialists, Greg Schwab
and Lloyd Murdock, will discuss bringing this land back into
production along with tillage and compaction issues at the
College of Agriculture’s integrated pest management school
Wednesday, March 7 at the UK Research and Education Center in
Princeton.
Murdock will also discuss carbon sequestration in the soil and
carbon trading. The school will also feature an update of
soybean rust by Paul Bachi, UK plant diagnostician, along with
discussion by UK Agricultural Engineer Sam McNeill of the latest
in spray technologies available to target soybean rust.
The afternoon session will include a presentation by Ric Bessin,
Extension entomologist, on advances in Bt varieties, and seed
and foliar applied insecticides. Doug Johnson, Extension
entomologist, will provide an update on the status of the
soybean stem borer and soybean aphid, including pesticides
available for their control. The afternoon will end with a
session on weed identification presented by Jim Martin, UK weeds
scientist.
Registration will open at 8:30 a.m. with the meeting starting at
9 a.m. and ending at 4 p.m. The program is free and lunch will
be provided. To guarantee a lunch, register by March 1 by
calling 270-365-7541, ext. 218 or e-mail
plucas@uky.edu.
The program is approved for 5.5 hours of continuing education
units for certified crop advisers – 2 in pest management, 1.5 in
crop management, and 2 in soil and water management. The meeting
will offer three general hours and one specific hour of
continuing education for pesticide safety education for
categories 1a, 10 and 12. |
Contact: Patty Lucas, 270-365-7541, ext. 218 |
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