| Breakout Session I |
| Producing Alfalfa from A to Z: What are the most important things to remember about producing a high yielding, high quality alfalfa crop? |
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| 1:30 pm |
Key Issues for Stand Establishment Presentation |
| Dan Putnam, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis |
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| 1:50 pm |
Variety Selection Presentation |
| Carol Frate, UCCE Tulare County, Visalia, California |
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| 2:10 |
Key Strategies for Weed Management Presentation |
| Mick Canevari, UCCE Emeritus, Stockton, California |
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| 2:30 |
What are the Most Important things to remember about Insect Management? Presentation |
| Larry Godfrey, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis |
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| 3:30 |
What are the most important Soil Fertility Issues for Alfalfa? Presentation |
| Tim Hays, Wilbur Ellis Co., Lancaster, California |
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| 3:50 |
Key Irrigation Management Practices for Alfalfa Presentation |
| Blake Sanden, UCCE, Bakersfield, California |
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| 4:10 |
Harvest Management Principles Presentation |
| Steve Orloff, UCCE, Yreka, California |
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| 4:30 |
What are the Most Important Alfalfa Quality Attributes? Presentation |
| Ed DePeters, UC Davis |
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| Breakout Session II |
| Producing Wheat from A to Z. What are the absolutely most important things to remember about producing a high yielding, high quality wheat crop? |
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| 1:30 |
Wheat Variety Selection
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| Lee Jackson, CE Specialist Emeritus, UC Davis, California |
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| 1:50 |
Stand Establishment |
| Kent Brittan, UCCE Yolo/Solano County, Woodland, California |
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| 2:10 |
Weed Management in Wheat |
| Steve Wright, UCCE Tulare/Kings Counties, Tulare, California |
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| 2:30 |
Nitrogen Management |
| Steve Orloff, UCCE Siskiyou County, Yreka, California |
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| 3:30 |
Irrigation Management |
| Mike Ottman, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona |
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| 3:50 |
Fungicides for Stripe Rust |
| Doug Munier, UCCE Glenn County, Orland, California |
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| 4:10 |
Management Practices to Improve Grain Quality |
| Gene Aksland, Agronomic Services, Visalia, California |
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| 4:30 |
Marketing Grains |
| Geoff Schulz, Penny Newman Grain, Fresno, California |
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2012 California Alfalfa & Grains Symposium
