| Time |
Activity |
| 08:30 |
Registrations; collect packages and name tags |
| 09:00 |
Welcoming address (Peter Barrowclough, LVL) |
| 09:10 |
Session one: Application technologies for difficult-to-control pests and diseases
Chairs: Clint Hoffman, USDA and Alison Forster, PPnz |
| 09:15 |
Target droplet size spectra for different pests and weeds (Andrew Hewitt, LVL) |
| 09:30 |
Difficult to control insects & diseases: psyllid, PSA, ect (D. Manktelow, Agrib. Training) |
| 09:45 |
Appln. technology for optimised spraying – aerial and ground (C.Hoffmann, USDA) |
| 10:00 |
Psyllid research in NZ (Stephen Ogden, Potatoes NZ/ Market Access Solutions) |
| 10:15 |
Achieving coverage on underside of leaves: air-assistance and electrostatics (USDA?) |
| 10:30 |
Morning tea |
| 10:50 |
Adjuvants 101 (Bill Bagley, Wilbur-Ellis Co.) |
| 11:05 |
Adjuvant research in NZ (Robyn Gaskin, PPnz) |
| 11:15 |
Panel discussion |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 13:00 |
Session two: Difficult to control weeds
Chairs: Richard Zollinger (NDSU) |
| 13:05 |
NZ weed challenges (Nick Poole, Foundation for Arable Research) |
| 13:20 |
US application technology and precision agriculture research (Ken Giles, UC Davis) |
| 14:00 |
Large-scale field studies: arable applications for N. America & NZ
(A. Hewitt/Tom Wolf, AAFC) |
| 14:15 |
Nozzles and adjuvants (Richard Zollinger) |
| 14:30 |
Herbicide efficacy studies in US - How coarse can we go? (Bill Bagley) |
| 14:45 |
Droplet retention, shatter, bounce (Alison Forster, PPCnz) |
| 15:00 |
Australian research update (TBD) |
| 15:20 |
Afternoon tea |
| 15:40 |
Panel discussion |
| 16:50 |
Field Demonstration of DRT and conventional spraying - in vineyard on university campus, including drift and deposition measurement techniques, lasers (if available) and samplers |
| 18:00-18:45 |
Dinner in Dining Hall |
| 19:00 |
Inspection of vines for spray coverage, drift and loss to ground using UV illumination of fluorescent dye deposits in the dark |
| 19:45 |
End of day - Mrs. O's Bar will be open |