Anyone around here who holds a pesticide applicator license and needs continuing education units can pick up five of them on Nov. 12 without leaving the house.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is running its Overton Fall Pesticide Continuing Education Unit Program online that day, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., over Zoom. It’s open to pesticide applicators and agricultural producers across Texas. Registration is $35 through Texas A&M AgriLife Register at agriliferegister.tamu.edu.
The day carries five Texas Department of Agriculture units: one in laws and regulations, one in integrated pest management, and three general.
What’s on the agenda
Five sessions, five speakers:
Respiratory protection in pesticide application — Ed Parson, safety and occupational health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University.
Using stocking rates to reduce weed and brush pressure — Jason Banta, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension beef cattle specialist and professor in the Texas A&M Department of Animal Science at Overton.
Laws and regulations of pesticide use — Wizzie Brown, AgriLife Extension integrated pest management specialist and entomologist, Texas A&M Department of Entomology, Travis County.
Structural pests, identification and management — Janet Hurley, AgriLife Extension integrated pest management senior program specialist with School Integrated Pest Management, Texas A&M Department of Entomology, Dallas.
Effective weed control in pastures and hayfields — Vanessa Corriher-Olson, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension forage specialist and professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Overton.
Two of those — Banta on stocking rates and Corriher-Olson on pasture and hayfield weeds — are aimed squarely at the cattle and hay operations that cover a lot of ground in the twelve counties. The other three are the license-keeping part.
For more information, contact Banta at jpbanta@ag.tamu.edu or Corriher-Olson at vanessa.corriher@ag.tamu.edu.
