Water Quality

Agenda

Madison, Wisconsin

August 24-28, 2004

[updated 10/05/04]

6:00 – 8:00 pm Registration and Reception (Fluno Center Study Pub, 8th Floor)

Course materials will be distributed and refreshments are available.

7:00 – 8:00 am Full Breakfast (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

8:00 – 8:15 Welcome by program sponsors (Room 203, Fluno Center)

John Ward, PREP Coordinator, Field and External Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Pete Nowak, Co-director of the Nutrient and Pest Management Program and Professor of Rural Sociology, UW-Madison

Jim VandenBrook, Water Quality Section Chief, Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture,Trade and Consumer Protection

8:15 – 9:15 Course Participant Introductions

Kit Schmidt, Nutrient and Pest Management Program Manager, UW–Madison

9:15 – 9:30 Course Objectives and Workshop Assignment Explanation – Pete Nowak

9:30 – 10:15 The Science and Policy Interface Keynote

Tom Lyon, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

10:15 – 10:45 Break (2^nd floor Break Station available 7:30 – 11:00 am)

10:45 – 11:45 Environmental Advocacy – Experiences with Policy and Science

Tom Dawson, Assistant Attorney General and Former Wisconsin Public Intervenor, Wisconsin Department of Justice

11:45 – 12:30 The Challenge of Balancing Science with Political Expectations

Ned Zuelsdorff, Director, Agchemical Management Bureau, Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

1:30 – 2:30 Pesticide Degradate Detections: Data, Law, Policy, and Challenges

Joe Zachmann, Hydrologist, Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture

2:30 – 4:00 Working Groups & Break

Break and Small Groups: Each participant will be assigned to a group to work on a problem set by the PREP Water Quality Steering Committee.
(2^nd floor Break Station 2:00 – 4:00 pm)

4:00 – 5:00 Free time

5:00 Class Photo (UW Memorial Union Terrace - Meet at the flags.)

On your own for dinner

7:00 – 8:00 am Breakfast (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

8:00 – 8:20 Overview of Tour – Field Science Meets Political Reality (Room 203, Fluno Center)

Jim VandenBrook, Water Quality Section Chief, Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

Fred Madison, Prof. of Soil Science, UW-Madison and Discovery Farms Co-director

8:20 Load bus for the Pheasant Branch Watershed (Fluno Parking Circle)

8:45 – 10:15 Pheasant Branch Conservancy

Ken Bradbury, Hydrologist, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey

Walk to the top of the drumlin to view the watershed’s agriculture/urban interface and its impacts on groundwater. Walk to Pheasant Branch Springs to view where groundwater becomes surface water.

10:15 Load bus for Tour of the Lower Wisconsin River Valley

10: 20 On Bus: Landscape Notes: Geology and hydrogeology – Fred Madison

On Bus: Atrazine prohibition areas – Jim VandenBrook

Duane Klein, Section Chief, Agricultural Resource Management Division, WDATCP

Jeff Ackerman, Hydrogeologist, WDATCP

On Bus: Taliesin (drive by buildings if time permits)

11:30 – 12:40 pm Lunch (Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center, Spring Green, WI)

12:40 Bus leaves for Cates Family Farm (Spring Green, WI)

12:50 – 1:20 Sustainable Alternatives for Wisconsin Agriculture

Dick Cates, Member of the Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Board of Directors and Coordinator of the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy Farmers (WSBDF)

1:20 Load Bus for the UW-Platteville Pioneer Farm

1:25 On Bus: Mechanisms to Coordinate Diverse Water Science Efforts

Jim VandenBrook, Pete Nowak, Fred Madison
Linkage of data from universities, research farms, private farms, the USGS, etc.

On Bus: Landscape Notes and Local Groundwater Research – Fred Madison

2:30 UW-Platteville Pioneer Farm – A 430-acre teaching farm managed by UW-Platteville since the early 1900’s to provide hands-on experience to students

Tom Hunt, Director of Research for Pioneer Farm

3:00 Break (Pioneer Farm Learning Center)

3:15 Review Surface Water Pesticide Data from 2003 and 2004 – Jim VandenBrook

John Hines, Water Monitoring & Assessment Supervisor, Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture - Examples on the scale of fields, subwatersheds, and watersheds

4:00 Leave Pioneer Farm for Madison

5: 45 – 7:30 Dinner – Door County Fish Boil overlooking Lake Mendota (UW Campus)

7:30 Return to Fluno Center – By Lake Shore Path (on foot) or by van

7:00 – 8:00 am Breakfast (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

8:00 – 8:45 Biotechnology and Transgenetic Crops: Implications for Pesticide Regulation

Chris Boerboom, Weed Scientist and Professor of Agronomy, UW-Madison

8:45 – 9:35 From the States: Unintended impacts of disclosing environmental data

Henry Wade, Environmental Program Manager, Pesticides Section, North Carolina Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services (25 minutes, 8:45-9:10 am)

Roy Meyer, Research Scientist and Toxicologist, Bureau of Pesticide Operations, New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection (25 minute, 9:10-9:35 am)

9:35-10:00 Groundwater Contamination from Failing Sumps at Ag Chemical Sites

Duane Klein, Chief, Containment/Remediation Section, WDATCP

10:00 – 10:30 Break (2^nd floor Break Station available 7:30 – 11:00 am)

10:30 – 11:30 Where is Groundwater Quality Going over the Long Term?

George Kraft, UW – Professor of Water Resources, UW-Stevens Point

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

12:30 – 2:30 Information Technology Workshop – (Circulate between stations every 30 minutes)

(Room 208) – Washington State GIS and Models to Assess Aquifer Vulnerability

Kirk Cook, Water Quality Program Manager, Pesticide Management, Washington State Dept. of Agriculture

(Room 206) – Pesticide use data in a GIS system – Use and Impact

Roy Meyer, Research Scientist and Toxicologist, Bureau of Pesticide Operations, New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection

(Room 204) – WeedSOFT Decision Support System for Herbicide Selection

Chris Boerboom, Professor of Agronomy, UW- Madison

(Room 203) – The Realtoolbox Potato Database

Deana Sexson, Potato Bio Integrated Pest Management Coordinator, Nutrient and Pest Management Program, UW-Madison

2:30 – 4:30 Working Groups & Break

2^nd Assignment: Identify unintended impacts of their proposed policy and further refine the policy, data management approaches, and use of various IT approaches.

Evening Dinner – On your own in Madison

7:00 – 8:00 am Breakfast (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

8:00 Load bus for Coloma Farms (Fluno Parking Circle)

8:10 – 9:45 On Bus: Overview of tour, history of Healthy Grown, and video

Deana Sexson, Potato Bio Integrated Pest Management Coordinator, Nutrient and Pest Management Program, UW-Madison

9:45 – 11:15 Coloma Farms – Rotate every 10 minutes through 5 stations.

Stop A: Introduction to Coloma Farms: Why Healthy Grown? – Steve Diercks

Stop B: View of a Policy Maker on the WI Dept of Ag Board – Andy Diercks

Stop C: Advanced IPM and reduced risk insecticide research for potatoes

Jeff Wyman, Professor of Entomology University, UW-Madison

Stop D: Advanced IPM and reduced risk fungicide research for potatoes

Walt Stevenson, Professor of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison

Stop E: In field data capture for record keeping – Deana Sexson

11:15 Load bus for Paul Miller’s Farm

11:30 – 11:50 Carrot Research on Reduced Risk Pest Management Programs

Walt Stevenson and Jeff Wyman (near Paul Miller’s carrot field)

11:50 Load Bus for Hancock Agricultural Research Station

12:00 pm – 12:05 Welcome to Hancock Agricultural Station, (Hancock, WI) – One of 13 experimental farms located in Wisconsin for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

12:05 – 12:30 Lunch – Outdoor Brat Fry Picnic

12:30 – 1:20 Healthy Grown Collaboration Discussion (Moderator: Deana Sexson)

How and Why is the WPVGA Involved?

Mike Carter, Executive Director of the WI Potato and Vegetable Growers Association

How Has the Healthy Grown Program Impacted Other Growers?

Nick Somers of Plover River Farms, Inc and WPVGA Member

Andy Wallendal of Wallendal Supply, Inc. and WPVGA Member

Why UW IPM is a Partner: Contributions of Research and Outreach

Jeff Wyman, Professor of Entomology University, UW-Madison

1:20 Load bus for Okray Farms Packing Shed

1:30 – 2:15 On Bus: Exporting the model – Deana Sexson

On Bus: Fumigation Reduction –A Desirable Policy Needing More Broad Based Research, Ann MacGuidwin, Nematologist & Prof. of Plant Pathology, UW-Madison

2:15 – 3:30 Okray Family Farms Packing Shed (Plover, WI)

Introduction to Marketing Healthy Grown

Angela Hemauer, WPVGA Promotion and Consumer Education Director

Tour Potato Packing Shed

Mike Finnessey, Sales Manager of Okray Family Farms

3:30 Load Bus for Isherwood Farm

3:40 – 4:00 On Bus: Overview of ecosystem work – Deana Sexson

4:00 – 5:30 Isherwood Farm Company (Plover, WI)

Hay wagon ride to the back 40 for a discussion on ecosystem restoration and sustainability by Justin Isherwood. Optional: Purchase Justin’s Book of Plough

5:30 Load Bus and Leave for Dinner

6:00 – 8:00 Dinner at the Sentry World High Court (Stevens Point, WI)

Socializing with Healthy Grown Growers and buffet dinner

8:00 Leave for Madison

10:00 Arrive in Madison

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

Optional: Walk to the Dane County Farmer’s Market on the Capital Square

9:00 – 10:30 Innovative State or Regional Initiatives on Managing the Interface Among Policy, Science and Water Quality

Washington – ESA Program – Description, Costs, and Future

Kirk Cook, Water Quality Program Manager, Pesticide Management, Washington

Carl Young, Environmental Scientist, U.S. EPA Region 6

Idaho – Idaho PMP Rule Making

Gary Bahr, Agricultural Bureau Chief, Idaho State Dept. of Agriculture

Cody Cook, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist, Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection

Jim VandenBrook, Water Quality Section Chief, WDATCP

10:30 – 11:30 Working Group and Break

Small groups convene to finalize proposals (2^nd floor Break Station 7:30 – 11:00 am)

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)

12:30 – 3:00 Small group reports on assigned exercise – Pete Nowak

3:00 – 3:30 Break (2^nd floor Break Station 2:00 – 4:00 pm)

3:30 – 4:30 Round Table discussion – What have we learned? John Ward

4:30 – 6:00 Free time

6:00 Socializing at the University Club (803 State Street, UW-Madison Campus)

6:30 Graduation dinner at the University Club

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast (Executive Dining Room, Fluno Center)