AUSTIN – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Service in Travis County will present an Earth-Kind Landscape training from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. April 16 at
its offices at 1600 Smith Rd. in Austin.
“This program is a great opportunity for green
industry professionals, especially those seeking continuing education units for
their Texas Department of Agriculture pesticide applicator’s license,” said
Daphne Richards, AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture, Travis County. But the program is not limited to those in the green industry; anyone may attend.
Richards said the program will offer five Texas of
Agriculture Department pesticide applicator continuing education units (3 General, 1 IPM, and 1 Laws & Regs) and also
five CEUs for those with Texas Nursery and Landscape Association certification.
“The program focuses on AgriLife Extension’s Earth-Kind
principles, which uses research-proven techniques to provide maximum garden and
landscape enjoyment while preserving and protecting the environment,” Richards
said. “The objective of Earth-Kind is to combine the best of organic and
traditional gardening and landscaping principles to create a horticultural
system that is effective and environmentally responsible.”
-- Protecting Water Resources
from Pesticide Contamination, Dr. Fouad Jaber, AgriLife Extension specialist ,
biological and agricultural engineering, Dallas.
-- The Label is the Law,
Richards
-- Landscape IPM: Nipping
Problems in the Bud, Dr. Mengmeng Gu, AgriLife Extension specialist,
horticultural sciences, College Station.
-- Plant Disease Updates:
Rose Rosette, Impatiens Downy Mildew and Boxwood Blight, Dr. Kevin Ong, Texas
A&M AgriLife Research, Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab director, College
Station.
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