The Environmental Protection Agency has been updating its process for registration of pesticides to include more deference to the Endangered Species Act. The agency has recently released new guidance for herbicide applications.
Changes will impact how growers use pesticides and can impact how herbicides are applied. There is a lot to digest with these changes.
During the Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo, Brett Bultemeier, director of the University of Florida’s Pesticide Information Office, will address these label changes step by step to take the mystery out of this new way of applying pesticides.
“Although the changes never seem to end, compliance won’t be hard to keep up with,” Bultemeier says. “Most farmers will keep doing what they are already doing. Now they just get to prove that Florida farms better.”
In addition, Nathan Boyd, a weed scientist with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, will speak about some of the major weeds growers fight in their fields.
“Research has proven that the integrated weed management programs adopted by most growers in the state are highly effective, but there are always new challenges, difficult species to control and opportunities to improve,” Boyd says.
Boyd will dive into those new challenges in a discussion with AgNet Media Editor-in-Chief Frank Giles during the specialty crop seminar session on Aug. 21.
The Citrus & Specialty Crop Expo is scheduled for Aug. 20-21 at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.
All preregistered growers will be automatically entered for a chance to win a John Deere gun safe, courtesy of Everglades Equipment Group.
Is your company interested in exhibiting? Please visit the exhibitor registration page for the registration form and more information about getting in front of the Southeast’s largest growers!
Complete details about the seminar sessions are coming soon. To learn more, including host hotel information, visit CitrusExpo.net.