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Monday
August 10, 2009
Emerging Trends |
Tuesday
August 11, 2009
How We Manage
Our Programs |
Wednesday
August 12, 2009
Industry Perspectives on Business
and Technology Trends |
Thursday
August 13, 2009
How We Manage Our
Programs, cont’d
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Field Trip |
Thursday
August 14, 2009
Social Marketing
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Science & Technology |
8:00
Registration
8:15
Welcome & Overview
8:45
Introductory Exercise
9:45
Break
10:00
EPA’s Current and Future Priorities
 | Status of NPDES issue |
| Green Products/Labeling |
| Pesticide packaging trends |
| Biotech: PIP Rule Status |
| Call for disinvestments? |
Debbie Edwards, director, U.S. EPA, Office of Pesticide
Programs & Lisa Lund, director, U.S. EPA, Office of Compliance
12:00
Lunch
12:45
Group Photo
1:00
Roundtable Discussion: Doing More w/Less
| How to leverage resources across borders and
jurisdictions |
| Coalition building |
| Funding aspect |
Facilitated by Bonnie Rabe, division director, New
Mexico Department of Agriculture
2:30
Break
2:45
New Technologies
| Overview of biopesticides, including biotech
pesticide products |
| emerging roles of biopesticides in agriculture |
| role of pesticides approved for organic production |
| integrated pest management (IPM) trends and strategic
partnership and stewardship approaches |
Mike McDavit, associate division director, U.S. EPA,
BPPD
4:00
Roundtable Discussion: Impacts of NGOs - What Voice Do We Give Them?
Facilitated by Brian Rowe, pesticide section manager, Michigan Department
of Agriculture
4:45
Adjourn & bus pick-up
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8:00
Managing Strengths,
Part 1
Gene Crumley, director, UC Davis Extension,
Department of Business & Management
9:30
Break
9:45
Managing Strengths, Part 1, continued
Gene Crumley
10:45
How To Manage a New Generation of Workers
Jeanie Hagen-Greene, principal, HG Training Group
12:15
Lunch
1:15
Electronic Tools We Can Use
| Online registration systems (Louisiana) |
| Ways to manage and share data |
| E-forms |
| Progressive hardware (e.g., PDAs, tablets, field
bioassay kits for ER) |
| Use of GIS |
Tim Creger, pesticide program manager, Nebraska
Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry;
Larry LeJeune, director, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry;
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John Peckham, unit supervisor, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2:45
Break
3:00
Roundtable Discussion: Defining and Selling Your Program’s Success
| How do we convince others what we are doing is a
valuable thing? |
| Pesticide regulation is a valuable use of taxpayer
resources |
Facilitated by Liza Fleeson, program manager, Virginia
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
4:30
Adjourn & bus pick-up
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8:00
Opening Remarks from Pesticide Registrants: What Does the Future Look Like
Through Your Lens?
John Jachetta, Dow Chemical; Jim Kunstman, PBI
Gordon; John Abbott, Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
8:30
What’s the Impact of the Increasing Access to Information on the
Internet to:
| Customer service and loyalty |
| State registrations and stewardship |
| E-commerce impacts |
(Dow, Syngenta, PBI Gordon)
9:15
Break
9:30
Operating in a Global Market
| Harmonized data requirements |
| Food safety concerns |
| Marketing and packaging approaches |
(Dow, Syngenta, PBI Gordon)
10:15
Increased Market Presence of Generics
(Dow, Syngenta, PBI Gordon)
11:15
New Technologies
| Drift reduction |
| Adjuvants (drift reduction, increased efficacy) |
| How will these appear on pesticide labels? |
| Nanotechnology |
(Dow, Syngenta, PBI Gordon)
12:15
Lunch
1:15
Nanotechnology
Jack Housenger, division director, BEAD
2:15
Break
2:30
Web-Based Labeling
| Label content on containers |
| Outreach & education (paradigm shift) |
| Lifespan of labels |
| Enforcement |
| Benefits of WBL |
Jim Gray, North Dakota Department of Agriculture
4:30
Adjourn & bus pick-up
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8:00
Managing Strengths
Part 2
Gene Crumley
9:30
Break
9:45
Managing Strengths
Part 2, continued
Gene Crumley
10:45
Pesticide Applications to Water & NPDES Issue
TBA
11:45
Lunch
12:30
Load bus and depart for Napa
1:30
Arrive in Napa, transfer to smaller buses to head to Rutherford
2:30
Arrive at Long Meadow Ranch in Rutherford
| agricultural sustainability in the winegrape and
olive oil industries |
Ted Hall, owner, Long Meadow Ranch
4:30
Load bus and head to Napa for group dinner at Zinsvalley Restaurant
5:00
Arrive at Zinsvalley for dinner
7:00
Load bus and return to Davis
8:15
Arrive at Hallmark Inn, Davis |
8:00
Social Marketing: How to Affect Behavior Change to Help Your Mission
Annette Frahm, principal, Sage Enviro
10:00
Break
10:15
Social Marketing, continued
Annette Frahm
12:15
Lunch
1:15
Roundtable Discussion: Impacts Due to Increase of Interstate Commercial
Applicator Business
| impacts to programs due increase of aerial
applicators applying Headline |
| could include internet sales |
| telephone solicitations |
Facilitated by David Scott, pesticide administrator,
Office of the Indiana State Chemist
2:15
Break
2:30
Lab Capabilities
| What are the new methodologies out there? |
| What is the new instrumentation and what can it do? |
| How can FIFRA state lead agency labs share
methods/resources? |
| How does the lab effectively communicate with the
program? |
| What are the major issues for FIFRA labs in the
future? |
| FERN |
Doug Marsh, director, Arizona Department of
Agriculture, State Agricultural Laboratory
3:15
Roundtable Discussion:
| What are the impacts to the regulatory framework with
the increasing sensitivity of analytical methods? |
| What do regulators do with an analytical result that
approaches zero? |
| When your analytical result is challenged in court,
what do you have to do to demonstrate the validity of the result? |
| Should the states strive for consistency in how
analytical results are derived, reported and interpreted? |
Facilitated by David E. Scott, Office of the Indiana
State Chemist & Bonnie Rabe, New Mexico Department of Agriculture
4:00
Wrap Up
Dea Zimmerman
4:30
Adjourn & bus pick-up
PM Graduation dinner
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