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SUMMARY:You Can’t Expect What You Can't Inspect
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Kennedy\, co-founder of Boomerwrangle \nFREE  Breakout Session\nFostering a culture of measurement and metrics is vital for a profitable and productive workplace in the green industry. Knowing your numbers and sharing them with your team is a great way to create a culture of engagement\, ownership and retention. John will introduce the audience to how good companies become great with a few key performance indicators that can drive your business to the next level of success.
URL:https://farwestshow.com/event/you-cant-expect-what-you-cant-inspect/
LOCATION:Room C124
CATEGORIES:Arborists,Breeders,Business Practices,Designers,Free,Growers,Interactive Learning,Landscapers,Marketing,Municipalities,Nursery Science Summit,Retailers,Seminars,Sustainability,Urban Foresters
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SUMMARY:Nursery Science Summit: Plant Selection and Production
DESCRIPTION:Speaker 1: Ryan Contreras\, Ph.D.\, Professor\, Oregon State University\nTitle: Past Successes and Future Directions for Nursery Breeding at Oregon State \nDescription: Since 2009\, the Ornamental Plant Breeding Program has been working to support the nursery industry through the development of new cultivars. To date\, we have released seven trees and shrubs exhibiting a variety of improvements. The program continues to evolve and push into new directions of evaluation and techniques. We will summarize where we have come and explore future directions including breeding for climate change and genomic tools that can help improve breeding efficiency. \nSpeaker 2: Neil Bell\, Community Horticulturist\, OSU Extension Service\nTitle: Long-Term Landscape Evaluation of Drought-Tolerant Groundcovers \nDescription: Northwest Plant Evaluations is an OSU Extension program geared to in-ground multi-year evaluations of shrubs\, primarily for un-irrigated landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2000\, evaluations have included species and cultivars of Hebe\, Cistus\, Halimium\, Ceanothus\, Grevillea and Arctostaphylos. Since 2019\, the program has been evaluating an array of broadleaved evergreen groundcovers of various sizes for use in un-irrigated landscape situations for growth\, flowering\, landscape appearance and hardiness. The presentation will discuss plants of various sizes for low-input landscapes in the region. \nSpeaker 3: Marcelo L. Moretti\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor\, Oregon State University Deptartment of Horticulture\nTitle: Watts Up: Developing Pulse Electric Field as an Alternative to Methyl Bromide \nDescription: This session will describe how a group of researchers at OSU\, USDA ARS\, and LISI Global are exploring pulse electric field to manage weed seeds\, soil-borne disease\, and parasitic nematodes in ornamental seedling beds.
URL:https://farwestshow.com/event/nursery-science-summit-plant-selection-and-production/
LOCATION:Room B119
CATEGORIES:Arborists,Breeders,Designers,Growers,Landscapers,Marketing,Municipalities,Nursery Science Summit,Retailers,Seminars,Sustainability,Urban Foresters
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SUMMARY:Nursery Science Summit: Insect Pest Management
DESCRIPTION:Speaker 1: Jana Lee\, Ph.D.\, USDA Entomologist\nTitle: Using Natural Enemies in Outdoor Nurseries\, and Silicon for Pest Management \nSpeaker 2: Man-yeon Choi\, Ph.D.\, USDA Research Entomologist\nTitle: Biological Targets for Controlling Thrips in Nursery Crops \nDescription: This seminar will present biological targets such as hormones\, proteins\, bioactive peptides\, and pheromones found in the western flower thrips\, as well as molecular methods and tools such as genomics\, proteomics\, and analytical chemistry. The goal is to discover biologically-based targets to develop new IPM methods for thrips. \nSpeaker 3: Brittany Barker\, Ph.D.\, Assistant Professor (Senior Research)\, Oregon IPM Center Dept. Of Horticulture\, Oregon State University\nTitle: Boxwood Blight Risk Infection Modeling Tools \nDescription: The invasive pathogen\, Calonectria pseudonaviculata\, causes boxwood blight on susceptible cultivars of boxwood\, Buxus sempervirens and related species. This seminar will present a new web app that produces high-resolution maps of the risk of boxwood being infected by boxwood blight in western Oregon and Washington. Additionally\, it will review other boxwood blight infection risk apps available at USPest.org\, which calculate risk for single sites using weather station data.
URL:https://farwestshow.com/event/nursery-science-summit-insect-pest-management/
LOCATION:Room B119
CATEGORIES:Growers,Landscapers,Nursery Science Summit,Seminars,Sustainability
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SUMMARY:Nursery Science Summit: Plant Pathology
DESCRIPTION:   \nSpeaker 1: Jay W. Pscheidt\, Ph.D.\, Extension Plant Pathology Specialist\, Oregon State University\nTitle: Smart Spraying Grapes Leads to New Boxwood Blight Management \nDescription: Oregon has been on the cutting-edge evaluating sensor assisted applications of pesticides for several years. These machines work well with systemic pesticides but need simple adjustments to use contact materials correctly. All sprayers have trouble delivering pesticides to the interior of a tight boxwood canopy. Drenching systemic fungicides can overcome this distribution issue with the potential to manage diseases such as boxwood blight. \nSpeaker 2: Niklaus Grunwald\, Ph.D.\, Research Plant Pathologist\, USDA-Agricultural Research Service\nTitle: Research Updates on Diagnostic Tools for Plant Pathogens Affecting Ornamental Crops \nDescription: In this session USDA scientist Nik Grunwald will present research updates on the genus Phytophthora. Phytophthora pathogens are some of the most devastating pathogens known to agriculture. He is pioneering novel approaches to monitor and diagnose plant pathogens. His focus is on the sudden oak death pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. \nSpeaker 3: Jerry Weiland\, Ph.D.\, Research Plant Pathologist\, USDA-Agricultural Research Service\nTitle: Nursery Plant Disease Research Highlights from the USDA-ARS Weiland Lab \nDescription: In this session\, plant disease expert Jerry Weiland will describe how his USDA-ARS research program serves Oregon’s nursery industry and highlight key outcomes from his research on Phytophthora root rot and boxwood blight. \nSpeaker 4: Luisa Santamaria\, Ph.D.\, Professor\, Extension Plant Pathologist\, Oregon State University
URL:https://farwestshow.com/event/nursery-science-summit-plant-pathology/
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CATEGORIES:Breeders,Designers,Growers,Landscapers,Marketing,Nursery Science Summit,Retailers,Seminars,Sustainability,Urban Foresters
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