LAKEPORT, Calif. – The University of California Cooperative Extension, California Pear Advisory Board, Pear Pest Management Research Fund and the and Lake County Department of Agriculture will host the annual North Coast Pear Research Meeting on Thursday, Feb. 6.
The meeting will take place from 8 a.m. to noon at the Scotts Valley Women’s Club, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.
Registration opens at 8 a.m., with coffee and a continental breakfast, with Rachel Elkins of the UC Cooperative Extension for Lake and Mendocino counties to welcome attendees at 8:30 p.m.
They invite growers and the larger community to join them to hear and discuss current pear research including insect and disease control, cover crops, mechanization-friendly orchard systems, and breeding.
At 8:40 a.m., the Lake County Agriculture Department will give an update on paraquat, closed systems and bee registration.
Dr. Jim Adaskeveg the University of California, Riverside’s Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology will offer an evaluation of new bactericides for control of fire blight of pear at 9:10 a.m.
At 9:40 a.m., Elkins and Alan Knight, a researcher based in Yakima, Wash., will give an update on new lure, trap placement and mass trapping trials for codling moth.
That will be followed at 10 a.m. by Elkins’ presentations on brown marmorated stink bug and the screening for potential antagonists for fire blight control.
At 10:40 a.m., Carolina Elena Tweedy of UC Davis’ Department of Plant Sciences, will give an update on UC pear breeding program activities, the development of rooting protocols on non-P. communis pears and promising wild pear germplasm and the Pear Genomics Research Network website.
At 11:10 a.m., Juliana Wu of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences will discuss cover crop effects on soil organic matter, rooting and nutrition in organic pear orchards.
Elkins will close the event with a presentation at 11:30 a.m. on rootstocks and orchard systems for pears.
Continuing education credits are available.
For more information, call the UC Cooperative Extension at 707-263-6838.
North Coast Pear Research Meeting set for Feb. 6
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