Zoom Webinar
February 4, 2021
12 pm EST, 9 am PST
This 1-hour long Zoom webinar, is meant for growers, and for people who assist them–especially pest management advisors and pesticide applicators. The event will host top-notch experts in the fields of herbicide science, plant pathology, atmospheric sciences and agricultural regulation. Register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/137078903691
This webinar will deal with pesticide application in agriculture, from the following perspectives:
- Damages to crops, due to pesticide and herbicide drift from neighboring fields.
- Inefficiency in pesticide application, and ways to correct it.
- Pesticide drift liability: perspectives and lessons to recipients and to sources;
- growers and pesticide applicators.
- Meteorological factors affecting pesticide application, and localized weather forecasting.
List of speakers:
- Prof. Doug Doohan (Herbicide Science), Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University.
- Prof. Dorita Edelstein (Atmospheric Science), Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israel Institute for Biological Research.
- John Fentis, Esq. (Law), Environmental Director, California District Attorneys Association.
- Moderator: Dr. Nadav Nitzan, Head of Plant Pathology, Valley of Springs Research Center, Israel (formerly of the Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University).
Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/137078903691