Programs run from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. Speakers will vary at each site, but program content is basically the same. Lunch is provided on site and is included in the fee. Please arrive early for check-in. Check-in begins at 7:15 am.
Download the site specific agenda for Pendleton, Springfield and Wilsonville.
- Oregon Pesticide Laws & Regs – Review/Current Issues
Janet Fults, Oregon Department of Agriculture
Laurie Gordon, Oregon Department of Agriculture
- Avoiding Common Pesticide Storage Mistakes
Oregon OSHA, Leilani Monson, Garnet Cooke and Lori Cohen
Storing pesticides safely presents many challenges. Problems resulting from the improper storage of pesticides transcend multiple State (and Federal) jurisdictions. Pesticide storage violations as a group are one of the most frequently violated areas in OR OSHA's Pesticide Emphasis Program. This presentation will assist growers in understanding the reasoning behind the regulations and provide them with the tools necessary to conduct their own assessments of their facilities to determine their own "opportunities for improvement," prior to an OR-OSHA inspection.
- Pesticide General Permit
Beth Moore, Oregon Dept. of Environment Quality
Beth Moore is the General Permit Coordinator in the Surface Water Management Program for DEQ. She will be giving a presentation on the response to the EPA Final Rule on the application of pesticides directly to, over or near water — summary of the final rule, the 6th Circuit Court ruling and the next steps.
- Rich Affeldt – Working through the Confusion
of Adjuvants (Pendleton)
OSU, Central Oregon Extension & Experiment Station
Affeldt will discuss adjuvant classification, mode of action, labeling, regulation, and influence of pesticide efficacy, in order to clarify some of the confusion that exists about adjuvants.
- Rodent Pest Management Strategies (Wilsonville)
Scott Harris, Bell Labs
Presentation of inspection, identification, harborage reduction, damage, biology, behavior, and control using IPM practices in relation to rodent pest management.
- Silvia Rondon – Use of Pesticides in Integrated
Pest Management Programs (Pendleton)
OSU Hermiston Agricultural Research & Extension Center,
Extension Entomologist
Insecticides are one of the most powerful tools available for use in pest management. If used correctly, they are highly effective. There are many pest problems for which the use of insecticides is the only acceptable solution. Advantages and limitations in the use of insecticides will be discussed. Case studies will be presented.
- Nancy Kerkvliet – Toxicity Testing:
New Ideas for Better Risk Assessment (Eugene)
OSU Professor of Toxicology,
Dept. of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology
Basic principles of toxicology will be reviewed. Current approaches to testing chemicals for toxicity and how the resulting data are used to determine safe exposure levels will also be reviewed. Short comings of the current system will be discussed, along with new proposals to revise the current testing system.
- Jeff Jenkins – Toxicology & Risk Assessment (Wilsonville)
OSU, Dept. of Environmental & Molecular Toxicology
Jenkins will discuss the basic principles of toxicology and key elements of pesticide human health risk assessment.
- David Leonard – Pesticides & The Law (Wilsonville & Eugene)
Churchill, Leonard Lawyers, Salem, OR
- Jim Casqueiro – Personal Protective Equipment:
Selection & Use (Wilsonville & Eugene)
Public Works Supply Company, Donald, OR
- Daniel Ball – Drift Management (Pendleton)
OSU, Columbia Basin Ag Research Center
- Dirk Helder – Fumigation (Pendleton)
EPA, Boise, Idaho
- Alan Felsot – Toxicology /Risk Assessment (Pendleton)
Washington State University, Entomology & Environmental Toxicology
- Andrew Hulting – Weed Control (Wilsonville & Eugene)
OSU, Weed Management Specialist, OSU Crop & Soil Science
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