| 8:00 - 8:30 | | Registration |
| 8:30 - 8:40 | | Welcoming Remarks
Nate Dechoretz, Acting Director, Division of Inspection Services, California Department of Food and Agriculture |
| 8:40 - 9:00 | | Governmental Update
Steve Beckley, President, Western Plant Health Association |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | | Vegetable Fertilization in California
Timothy Hartz, UC Davis, Department of Vegetable Crops |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | | New Fertilizing Materials
Robert Mikkelsen, Potash and Phosphate Institute |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | | BREAK |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | | Development of BMPs for Fertilizing Lawns to Optimize Plant Performance and Nitrogen Uptake While Reducing the Potential for Nitrate Leaching
Robert Green, UC Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | | Determination of Nursery Crop Yields, Nutrient Content and Water Use for Improvement of Water and Fertilizer Use Efficiency
Richard Evans, UC Davis, Environmental Horticulture |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | | Precision Fertigation in Orchards: Development of a Spatially Variable Microsprinkler System
Michael Delwiche, UC Davis, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | | LUNCH |
| 12:45 - 3:00 | | Afternoon Sessions |
| Crop and Nutrient Management Session |
| 12:45 - 1:15 | | Seasonal Patterns of Nutrient Uptake and Partitioning as a Function of Crop Load of the 'Hass' Avocado and Rate of Fertilization
Carol Lovatt, UC Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences |
| 1:15 - 1:45 | | Improving the Procedure for Nutrient Sampling in Stone Fruit Trees
R. Scott Johnson, UC Davis, Department of Pomology |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | | BREAK |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | | Planning Application Rates for Organic Fertilizers
David Crohn, UC Riverside, Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | | Ammonia Emission Related to Nitrogen Fertilizer Application Practices
Charles Krauter, CSU Fresno, Center for Irrigation Technology |
| Pesticide and Water Quality Management Session |
| 12:45 - 1:15 | | Effective Choices for Disease Control
Ann Chase, Chase Research Gardens |
| 1:15 - 1:45 | | Update on the Agricultural Irrigation Return Flow Waiver
Central Coast Regional Water Quality Board |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | | BREAK |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | | Using Polyacrylamide (PAM) for Controlling Sediments and Nutrients in Irrigation Run-off from Central Coast Vegetable Fields
Michael Cahn, UC Cooperative Extension |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | | Effects of Conservation Tillage on Nutrient Losses to Runoff in Alternative and Conventional Farming Systems
William Horwath, UC Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources |
