2018 Pesticide Recertification Meeting Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Consideration For Pest Management on the 2018 Corn Crop in Central New York

Check in registration begins at 10:30am

CCE Cayuga 248 Grant Avenue, Auburn, NY 13021

Cost: $25.00 - Includes lunch.

NY DEC Recertification Credits have been applied for.

Questions: Call CCE Cayuga Ag Resource Educator Keith Severson (kvs5@cornell.edu)

315-255-1183 Ext 225

Agenda

11:00am..........Jeff Phillips, Monsanto Chemistry Dicamba training is a 2018 requirement for use of specifically labeled dicamba products labeled for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend Soybeans. (Xtendimax with VaporGrip technology, Engenia, Fexapan with VaporGrip Technology) This training will provide certification needed to satisfy new record keeping requirements found on these updated labels. This program will instruct participants on how to interpret and follow the labels to be successful in managing off target movement and providing successful, susstainable weed control.

12:00 PM..........Lunch provided with Registration!

12:30pm...........Dan Wixed Cornell University "Upcoming Changes to Pollinator protection Language on Pesticide Labels." Dan will discuss EPA's policy to mitigate the acute risk to bees from pesticide products. This policy will result in changes to pollinator protection language on pesticide labels, even replacing recent label changes to neonicotinoids. Dan will discuss the changes themselves as well as the reason for them, their implications with respect to both managed and wild pollinators, how to comply with the new restrictions, and considerations for growers and beekeepers when drafting contracts for pollination services.

1:30pm..........Dan Digiacomandrea, Bayer will discuss the seed treatment pesticide ILeVO and its capacity to protect or reduce the damage from Soybean Cyst Nematode or Sudden Death Syndrome to soybeans grown in central New York. Both Diseases have been found and verified as being here in Cayuga County.

2:30 PM..........Keith Severson, CCE Cayuga for many years birds have been a pest to growing corn seedlings, and many different mechanisms have been employed to reduce their damage. Avipel NYSLN 24C is a pesticide labeled to reduce bird damage and in 2017 numerous Field crop educators set out research plots to determine the ability for the product corn seedling from bird damage. We will review the procedure associated with the generated based upon this research.

3:00 PM..........Keith Severson, CCE Cayuga will talk about resistance to pests as a way to select a seed or plant that has the ability to defend itself against pests. Resistance can also be a mechanism that develops the capacity to render a pesticide ineffective when a population has developed that can challenge the pesticide which once controlled that pest. Keith will explain how resistance can increase when pesticide selection becomes routine and rotations are diminished in a field or farm.

3:30 PM..........Joe Lawrence, Cornell ProDairy will review the situations that may increase the capacity of pests causing damage to crops when the management strategy is changed from growing a GMO seed derived crops to conventionally bred sees that may not have the ability to fend off the challenges that pest may create.

* Please allow extra time for arrival in inclement weather. You must attend the full meeting to receive Pesticide Recertification Credits.

Registration for event has CLOSED.