Crop & Pest Management Shool

	Speaker (email/web page)	Presentation (pdf)
January 6
8:30		Registration and Opening Remarks
8:15	Kevin Wanner	Introduction to IPM and Insect Pests of Small Grains in Montana
9:05	Kevin Wanner & Ruth O’Neill	Insect Identification Workshop
10:10	Kevin Wanner & Ruth O’Neill	Insect Identification Workshop (cont.)
11:00	David Weaver	Wheat Stem Sawfly Update
1:30	Ian Foley	New Small Grains Survey for 2009
2:30	Luther Talbert	Insect-resistant Varieties of Wheat
3:30	Robert Stougaard	Orange Wheat Blossom Midge Update
4:30		Optional Group Discussion

January 7
8:00	Barry Jacobsen	Managing Storage Molds on Grains and Seeds
8:50	Bill Grey	Variety Selection and Seed Quality as Tools for Managing Small Grain Diseases
10:00	Barry Jacobsen	Anticipating Small Grain Diseases and Disease Management Option Considerations
11:00	Bill Grey and Barry Jacobsen	Disease Management Strategies for Pulse Crop & Small Grains
1:30	Cecil Tharp	Pesticide Safety: Am I at Risk?
2:30	Kent McVay	Testing of New Crops for Montana Agriculture
3:30		Afternoon break
4:00	Robert Peterson	Pesticide Risk and Regulation
5:30		Optional Group Dinner - Pizza at Columbo’s

January 8
8:00	Ed Davis	Update on Cropland Weed Management
9:30	Bruce Maxwell	The Value of Ecological Information in Making Invasive Plant Species Management Decisions
9:45	Jane Mangold	Cheatgrass Biology and Ecology
10:45	Fabian Menalled and Jane Mangold	Weed Identification Workshop
11:45		Closing Remarks

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