2025 Agenda & Recordings

7:00 AM	Doors open for Registration and morning coffee
Morning Session Moderator: Tobias Oker
8:00 AM	Welcome Tobias Oker, Farm Advisor, UCCE Kern County
8:05 AM	Pistachio Industry Update Stephen Vasquez, Executive Director, Administrative Committee for Pistachios
8:30 AM	Cultivating a Sustainable Future: Water & Recharge Strategies, Soil Amendment Considerations for Recharge Fields Mae Culumber, University of California Cooperative Extension, Fresno County CEU Approved: CCA Soil & Water Management, INMPT Irrigation Management
9:00 AM	New Technologies for Orchard Water Management Isaya Kisekka, University of California, Davis, Department of Land Air and Water Resources CEU Approved: CCA Soil & Water Management, INMPT Irrigation Management
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 CEU Approved: CCA Crop Management
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 CEU Approved: CCA Soil & Water Management, INMPT Irrigation Management
11:00 AM	Micronutrient Management for Efficient Pistachio Production Doug Amaral, University of California Cooperative Extension, Kings County CEU Approved: CCA Nutrient Management
11:30 AM	Developing and Deploying Gene Expression Markers for Managing Bud Break in Pistachios Li Tian, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis CEU Approved: CCA Crop Management
12:00 PM	Luncheon
Afternoon Session Moderator: David Haviland
1:00 PM	Management of Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot Alejandro Hernandez Rosas, University of California, Davis PhD Candidate, Plant Pathology CEU Approved: CCA Crop Management, DPR Other
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 CEU Approved: CCA Integrated Pest Management, DPR Other
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 CEU Approved: CCA Integrated Pest Management, DPR Other
2:30 PM	Navigating Options for Gill’s Mealybug Spray Programs David Haviland, University of California Cooperative Extension, Kern County CEU Approved: CCA Integrated Pest Management, DPR Other
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 CEU Approved: CCA Integrated Pest Management, DPR Other
3:45 PM	Invasive Carpophilus Beetle Status as a Pest of California Nut Crops Jhalendra Rijal, UCIPM & UCCE, Stanislaus CEU Approved: CCA Integrated Pest Management, DPR Other
4:15 PM	Adjourn