UC Ag Experts Talk Webinar Series

What Are the UC Ag Experts Talking About?

The UC Ag Experts webinar series consists of 1-hour long presentations, designed for growers and pest management professionals, highlighting various pest management and horticultural topics for crops grown in California. Master Gardeners can benefit from participating, but the pest management methods presented, especially the pesticides, are not to be followed without a clear understanding of their legal use by home residents.

During each session, a UC Expert on the subject makes a presentation and entertains write-in questions via Q&A during and/or after the presentation. All webinars are recorded and posted to our YouTube playlist.

Upcoming UC Ag Experts Webinars

August 6, 2025 (3 to 4 pm) - Field Crop Insect and Weed Management Updates

• Nicholas Clark, Associate Cooperative Extension Area Agronomic Cropping Systems and Nutrient Management Advisor, will give an introduction of agronomic cropping systems and their current weed and insect pest management challenges. He will describe specific pest-crop interactions and the IPM and integrated weed management approaches effective for managing them and discuss various research trials testing effectiveness of specific pesticide control measures of targeted pests such as lygus, beet leafhopper, stinkbug, false chinch bug, sugarcane aphid, and common chickweed. Register Now

September 24, 2025 (3 to 4 pm) - Pest Management in Alfalfa, Small Grains, and Garbanzo Beans

• Dr. Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, Delta Crops Resource Management Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County, will discuss the principles of Integrated Pest Management and pest management in alfalfa, small grains, and garbanzo beans. For each crop, she will discuss key weeds, insect pests, and pathogens including prevention, monitoring, management, and considerations in field diagnosis. Register Now

Are there Continuing Education units?

When the subject discusses pest or disease management, continuing education units (CEU) will be requested from DPR (1 unit per session) and when relevant also Certified Crop Adviser (CCA) and International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) continuing education units. To qualify for the CEU make sure to

• register separately with your own email address and log in from your own device
• participate in the entire hour session
• complete and pass a final test with 70% or higher; if not passed, the test can be retaken

If you are connecting by smartphone and need CEUs, be sure that you are using the zoom app (Android, iPhone) so that you have access to the presentation and we can track your presence in the webinar.

Certificates of completion will be emailed within one week to those who meet those requirements above. Continuing education units are awarded only to the participants who attend the live version of the webinar.

Who is involved in the UC Ag Experts webinar series?

This webinar series is brought to you by the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program with the technical support of Petr Kosina (UC IPM Content Development Supervisor) and Cheryl Reynolds (UC IPM Interactive Learning Developer). Subscribe to our mailing list.

UC Ag Experts Talk webinars are partially supported by National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Crop Protection and Pest Management Extension Implementation Program.