Agenda

UCCE Statewide Pistachio Day 2025 Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 8 am-4:15 pm Visalia Convention Center, 303 E Acequia Ave, Visalia, CA 93291
7:00 AM	Doors open for Registration and morning coffee
Morning Session Moderator: Tobias Ebong Oker
8:00 AM	Welcome Tobias Ebong Oker
8:05 AM	Pistachio Industry Update Steve Vasquez, Executive Director, Administrative Committee for Pistachios
8:30 AM	Approaches to Groundwater Recharge in Orchard Systems Mae Culumber, University of California Cooperative Extension, Fresno County
9:00 AM	New Technologies for Orchard Water Management Isaya Kisekka, University of California, Davis, Department of Land Air and Water Resources
9:30 AM	Past, Present and Future of the UC Pistachio Cultivars and Rootstocks Evaluation Program Giulia Marino, University of California, Davis, Department of Plant Sciences
10:00 AM	Coffee Break and Visit with Sponsors
10:30 AM	Ground Calibrated Remotely Sensed Pistachio Evapotranspiration in the San Joaquin Valley Joel Kimmelshue, Land IQ
11:00 AM	Micronutrient Management for Efficient Pistachio Production Doug Amaral, University of California Cooperative Extension, Kings County
11:30 AM	Developing and Deploying Gene Expression Markers for Managing Bud Break in Pistachios Li Tian, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
12:00 PM	Luncheon
Afternoon Session Moderator: David Haviland
1:00 PM	Management of Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot Florent Trouillas, University of California, Davis and Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
1:30 PM	Comparison of Two Biocontrol Agents AF36 Prevail® and Aflaguard® GR Used Commercially to Reduce Aflatoxin Contamination Themis Michailides, University of California, Davis and Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
2:00 PM	Optimizing Insect Biological Controls in Pistachios, what levels of pest suppression can be expected? Kent Daane, University of California, Berkeley and Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
2:30 PM	Navigating Options for Gill’s Mealybug Spray Programs David Haviland, University of California Cooperative Extension, Kern County
3:00 PM	Break and visit with sponsors
3:15 PM	Navel Orangeworm: Hull Integrity and Sanitation Through Grazing Houston Wilson, UC Riverside and Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
3:45 PM	Carpophilus Beetle Status as a Pest of California Nut Crops Jhalendra Rijal, UCIPM, Northern San Joaquin Valley
4:15 PM	Adjourn