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  • Undercover Boss: Clues to Create a Team of Superheroes, Improve Culture and Decrease Attrition

    Room B113

    Speaker: Anne Obarski, Founder and CEO, Merchandise Concepts
    If you become a frontline employee in your business for a day, what might you discover? Do you think there are items that could be changed or improved? What could you do with that information to create happier employees and an improved culture? It takes a special leader to be willing to take risks to discover what will make each employee part of your team of superheroes.

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  • Practical Use of Plant Growth Regulators in the Plant Nursery

    Room B116

    Speaker: Dr. Jozsef Racsko, Technology Manager, Mycorrhizal Applications LLC.
    In this technical seminar, attendees will learn about the commercial applicability of plant growth regulator (PGR) products; when and how to apply them, what rates to use, what factors influence their efficacy (weather conditions, water pH, plant health status), and how these products can be integrated into the production practices. The presentation will review results from commercial trials and research experiments and provide guidance to the audience on how to interpret such research information. This will help growers find the right solution tailored to their turf or ornamental crop and growing conditions. The presenter will discuss how growing protocols can be adjusted to specific conditions to take full advantage of PGR products.

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  • Crop Adapted Spraying: Strategies for Use in Nursery

    Room B119

    Speaker: Brian Hill, Faculty Research Assistant, OSU NWREC Nackley Lab
    Crop adapted spraying (CAS) is a systematic approach to air-blast sprayer calibration. It was designed in fruit and nut orchards as a way to spray more efficiently when the target is a canopy that changes over the growing season. CAS is a good fit for nursery production because of the many crops of different sizes and shapes that are grown closely together. This seminar covers the core concepts of CAS while taking a deep look at the implementation strategy for nursery production systems.

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  • Extreme Weather: How it Affects Crop Production With Solutions Offered

    Room B116

    Speakers: Lloyd Nackley, Professor, Oregon State University and Dr. Drew Zwart, Plant Pathologist / Physiologist, Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
    Extreme weather events are more common than ever. For example, in 2021 the north Willamette Valley had catastrophic ice storms in late winter. The winter melted into a warm spring and exceptionally hot summer that was exemplified by the 113 F “heat dome” in late June. While the average annual temperatures in our region will only increase by a few degrees each decade, these extreme (greater than 10 F above average) hot and low-temperature events have devastating and long-lasting effects on nursery producers. Learn about how climate change and extreme weather are affecting nursery production, and what growers can do about it.

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  • Gain the Upper Hand This Season on Root, Crown, and Foliar Diseases

    Room B119

    Speaker: George Grant, GGSPro Technical Specialist, Griffin Greenhouse Supplies
    This session will take a deep dive into the prevention and control of common root and crown diseases, including water molds, Fusarium, Botrytis, Rhizoctonia, Thielaviopsis, and more. Learn how you can also maximize your chemical control toolkits by implementing microbial-based fungicide options. This session will provide detailed fungicide rotation strategies, cultural best practices, and practical prevention tips that will benefit growers at every level.

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  • Cultivating Cultivars Seed to Tree: The 30-Year Timeline for Climate Resistant Urban Trees

    Room B116

    Speaker: Nancy Buley, Communications Director, J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co.
    It’s a long and complex journey from seed to city tree. Many hands and a decade or more are needed to grow a tree from start to finish. It takes even longer to develop, select, trial, and introduce new and improved cultivars. Bringing new and improved urban tree cultivars to market is a multi-generational effort that may take 15–30 years or more, via the collaborative efforts of plant breeders, growers, urban foresters, arboreta, and academia. Understanding the timeline and processes of new tree introduction and the how and why of cultivar development will help you plan ahead for choosing, growing, and planting the best trees for the future urban forest.

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  • H-2A: Tips and Tricks for Navigating Your Way Through

    Solution Center (end of Aisle 10,000)

    Speaker: Cheyenne Protz, H-2A Coordinator, Labor Consultants International
    This FREE mini-session is included with your trade show pass!
    At LCI, there is over 20 years of guest worker visa experience. Every day we help our clients expertly navigate the guest worker programs utilizing experience, intuition, and industry involvement. We have seen every situation, roadblock, and victory in this industry and are directly involved with every political, legislative, and industry discussion and forum for these visa programs. Let us share our knowledge with you to produce the best season possible with skilled, reliable labor.

    FREE