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Free surface irrigation efficiency workshop to be held at Kearney June 3, 2016
This workshop is designed to give growers and water managers tools and insights on how to better conduct surface irrigation activities including furrow, border and basin (flood) irrigation systems. Topics include basic system design issues, performance evaluation approaches and commonly used practices to improve the distribution uniformity and efficiency of applied water.
The agenda is:
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Registration and refreshments |
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. | Introductory remarks and welcome - TBD |
9:10 -9:30 a.m. | Practical Application for Improving Surface Irrigation Efficiencies, Dan Munk, UCCE advisor in Fresno County |
9:30 - 9:50 a.m. | Irrigation Systems and Energy Efficiency, Daniele Zaccaria, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis |
9:50 - 10:10 a.m. | Improving the Efficiency of Surface Irrigation Systems, Eduardo Bautista, USDA ARS Water Management and Conservation Research Unit at the Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center in Arizona |
10:10 - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
10:30 - 11:10 a.m. | The relationship between irrigation efficiency and field geometry, field condition, and inflow rate into the irrigated field, Eduardo Bautista, USDA-ARS |
11:10 -11:30 a.m. | Understanding Irrigation Efficiency with Different Systems: How it's Defined, Why it's Important, Khaled Bali, UCCE advisor and director in Imperial county |
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Q&A |
To register for the workshop or for additional information, please email or call Dan Munk or Terri Gonzalez (email:dsmunk@ucanr.edu, 559-241-7515). Event registration is optional but preferred to estimate attendance.
Our programs are open to all potential participants. Please contact the Fresno UCCE office (two weeks prior to the event) at 559-241-7515 if you have any barriers to participation requiring special accommodations.
/table>UCD plant pathology graduate students visited Kearney on May 13, 2016 to have classes in the field.
UCD plant pathology graduate students visited Kearney on May 13, 2016 to have classes in the field.
Bob Gilbertson, professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis, specializing in seed pathology, virology, and insect-transmitted viruses, brought 18 graduate students to the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (UC ANR KARE) in May. The visit was related to the course: PLP 205A Diseases of Field, Vegetable, Fruit and Nut Crops.
The field trip started with a general introduction about the UC Extension principles and philosophy by Pete Goodell, UC Cooperative Extension advisor, Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program and UC ANR KARE. Students then got a field tour lead by Chuck Boldwyn, Center Superintendent of Agriculture at UC ANR KARE and field presentations by Florent Trouillas, Assistant UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis and UC ANR KARE, Themis Michailides, Plant Pathologist in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis and UC ANR KARE, and George Zhuang, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Fresno county, specializing in viticulture and enology, on various diseases and related issues.
Field presentations included:
- Prunes: wood decay and Cytospora canker
- Pistachios: Botryosphaeria shoot and panicle blight; bushy top syndrome, and research on Aflatoxin
- Grapes: grapevine canker diseases (Esca, Phomopsis, Eutypa and Botryosphaeria).
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