The Orchard Crop Continuing Education Day will cover various orchard topics including application equipment, weed management, stone fruit integrated management, and more. This event is part of a larger series planed by the Merced County Farm Bureau held Tuesdays from end of September to October. Please consider attending the other classes. For this day and in collaboration with Syngenta, there is a free lunch with a red leaf blotch roundtable session with additional DPR continuing education and separate registration.

There is a cost to attend the Speaker Session while the Roundtable Session is free to attend.

Speaker Session

DPR 4 hours (1 Laws and 3 Other)

CCA 4 CEU

Cost: $50

Online payment: https://www.mercedfarmbureau.org/ce

Use link above for online payment. In-person payment on day of event limited to cash or check.

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM: Orchard Specific Application Equipment and Chemical Regulations (Olivia Guzman)

9:00 AM to 10:00 AM: Integrated Orchard Management in Stone Fruit: Current Pest and Production Considerations (Raymond Mireles)

10:00 AM to 11:00 AM: Herbicide Resistance Weeds in California Orchards (Jorge Antonio Angeles)

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM: Epidemiology and Control of the Invasive Red Leaf Blotch Disease of Almond (Florent Trouillas, PhD)

11:30 AM to 12:00 PM: Management Strategies of Phytophthora Root and Crown rot of Pistachio (Alejandro Hernandez Rosas)

Roundtable Session on Red Leaf Blotch Disease

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

DPR 1.5 other hours

Free to attend

Lunch provided only with registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SpohBjWo1USvrzkmNDv7ierv6munzCdNhlN2cmALVSJUQU43WjBDTFhFQkNENEhYS1YzUTJWQUlCMS4u&origin=QRCode