South Valley
Nut Conference
Agenda
ALMOND PAVILION
8:30am-9:00am VOC Regulations/ Regulatory
Updates for Almonds: Marilyn Kinoshita; AG
Commissioner/Sealer, Tulare County
MAIN EXHIBIT HALL
7:30am-8:00am Registration, Coffee &
Pastries
9:00am-9:15am Global Marketing Industry
Updates: Stacey Humble; Marketing Executive,
Almond Board of California
9:15am-9:30am Solar Energy: Don Carlson; VP
8:00am-8:30am Water Crisis: Mario Santoyo;
Assistant General Manager, Friant Water Author- of Project Development, Coldwell Solar, Inc.
ity and Executive Director, The California Latino
9:30am-10:00am Post Harvest Practices: Dr.
Water Coalition
Gurreet Brar; UCCE Farm Advisor, Fresno and
Madera Counties
10:30-11:00am Break
12:00pm-12:30pm Lunch BBQ Tri-Tip
12:30pm -1:00pm Rural Ag Crime Prevention
and Mitigation Solutions, Protect Yourself and
Your Property: Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, Tulare
County Sheriff’s Department, Rural Crimes Task
Force; Bill Ludwig, Zenith Insurance Company
Conference Sponsors
10:00am-10:30am Mites: David Haviland;
UCCE Entomology and Pest Management Advisor, Kern County
11:00am-11:30am Bee Health and Pollination
Best Practices: Denise Qualls; CEO,The Pollination Connection
11:30am-12:00pm Deficit Irrigation in
Almonds-Leaching, Salinity, and ET: Blake
Sanden; Irrigation Management Advisor, UCCE
Kern County
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October 30, 2014
8am-1pm
Tulare County
Fairgrounds
PISTACHIO PAVILION
8:30am-8:45am American Pistachio Board
Industry Update: Richard Matoian; Executive
Director, American Pistachio Growers
8:45am-9:00am Solar Energy: Don Carlson; VP
of Project Development, Coldwell Solar, Inc.
9:00am-9:30am Managing Chill in Pistachios:
Dr. Katherine Pope; UCCE Farm Advisor Yolo,
Solano, and Sacramento Counties
9:30am-10:30am Salinity Education: Dr. Louise
Ferguson; Extension Specialist, Department of
Plant Sciences, UC Davis
11:00am-11:30am Navel Orangeworm: Dr. Joel
Siegel; USDA, ARS
11:30am-12:00pm Salinity Management Practices: Dr. Stephen Grattan; Plant/Water Relations
Extension Specialist, UC Davis
Host Hotel
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Nut Conference for your
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WALNUT PAVILION
8:30am-9:00am Botryosphaeria/Phomposis
Canker: Dr. Themis Michailides; Professor,
Department of Plant Pathology, UC Davis
9:00am-9:30am VOC Regulations/ Regulatory
Updates for Walnuts: Marilyn Kinoshita; AG
Commissioner/Sealer, Tulare County
9:30am-9:45am Solar Energy: Don Carlson;
VP of Project Development, Coldwell Solar, Inc.
9:45am-10:15am Walnut Nutrient Management: Dr. Katherine Pope; UCCE Farm Advisor
Yolo, Solano, and Sacramento Counties
10:15am-10:45am California Walnut Board &
Commission Industry Update: Dennis Balint,
CEO, California Walnut Board and Commission;
Carl Eidsath, Technical Support Director;
Michelle McNeil, Senior Marketing Director,
International
11:00am- 11:30am Crown Gall: Dr. Dan Klupfel; USDA, ARS
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11:30am-12:00pm Thousand Cankers and
Lethal Paradox Canker: Two Emerging
Diseases on Walnuts: Dr. Elizabeth Fichtner;
UCCE Farm Advisor, Tulare County

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