Here are some courses you might like to register for to keep up or refresh your knowledge in greenhouse production.
Course Subjects: Dates, Level, and Cost
Greenhouse 101: 4-Jun-18 29-Jun-18 • $US199
Costing and Profitability: 4-Jun-18 29-Jun-18 ••• $US499
Nutrient Management 1 (Intro) : 2-Jul-18 27-Jul-18 •• $US199
Weed Management: 30-Jul-18 24-Aug-18 •• $US199
Nutrient Management 2 (Advanced): 3-Sep-18 28-Sep-18 ••• $US199
Disease Management REVISED!: 1-Oct-18 26-Oct-18 •• $US199
Water Quality & Treatment NEW!: 5-Nov-18 7-Dec-18 ••• $US199
Introduction to Hydroponics NEW!: 14-Jan-19 8-Feb-19 • $US199
•Introductory: Practical experience but without formal horticultural science education/
Introductorio: experiencia práctica sin educación formal en ciencias hortícolas.
••Intermediate: Some experience and training, entry university level/Intermedio: Algo de
experiencia y entrenamiento, o nivel inicial universitario.
•••Advanced: Experienced, well-trained grower, upper university level
Courses are designed for people already working in the horticulture industry.
Lectures and assignments are in both English and Spanish, with support from bilingual instructors.
Courses on specific dates, typically for four weeks. A list of individual courses is below to find out the next date each course will be offered.
Classes are completely online, and include streaming videos, readings, and assignments. They are available any time of the day, and new modules are activated each week during the course. You can use a desktop computer, tablet, or smart phone.
Registration
Each employee will need their own unique email address before you register them.
Cost is $US199 per employee for most courses, and $499 for the Costing and Profitability course. Use the promotion code Hills18 for a 5% discount.
Certificates
When you complete the requirements for each course you will be sent a personalized certificate.
Courses do not count for credit towards a university degree.
For registration information click on this link ( Registration ) and use the registration code HILLS18 for a 5% discount.
For more information: email greenhousetraining@ifas.ufl.edu. We are happy to help you with any questions.
Ask us about bulk discounts when you register 5 or more participants.
6/11/18
WPS Training Attendance Sheets
This may be of interest to growers who are regulated by the WPS.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has updated the WPS Worker and Handler Training Attendance Sheet which it suggests for use to document worker and handler WPS training.
Under the 2015 Revised Worker Protection Standard
WPS PESTICIDE SAFETY TRAINING
Agricultural workers must be trained before performing any task in a treated area on an agricultural establishment where within the last 30 days a pesticide product has been use or restricted-entry interval for such pesticide has been in effect.(40CFR section 170.401).
Agricultural handlers must be trained before any handling activity is performed. (40CFR section 170.501).
Workers and handlers must each be trained at least whithin the last 12 months. You must keep this record as training evidence.
Feel free to print the new sheets (WPS attendance sheets link ) and use them to document your WPS worker and handler training.
Thanks to Agents Gene McAvoy and Alicia Whidden for the information.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has updated the WPS Worker and Handler Training Attendance Sheet which it suggests for use to document worker and handler WPS training.
Under the 2015 Revised Worker Protection Standard
WPS PESTICIDE SAFETY TRAINING
Agricultural workers must be trained before performing any task in a treated area on an agricultural establishment where within the last 30 days a pesticide product has been use or restricted-entry interval for such pesticide has been in effect.(40CFR section 170.401).
Agricultural handlers must be trained before any handling activity is performed. (40CFR section 170.501).
Workers and handlers must each be trained at least whithin the last 12 months. You must keep this record as training evidence.
Feel free to print the new sheets (WPS attendance sheets link ) and use them to document your WPS worker and handler training.
Thanks to Agents Gene McAvoy and Alicia Whidden for the information.
6/8/18
WPS Train-the-Trainer Class
Worker Protection Standards, Train the Trainer – June 22nd from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm at the Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, 14625 CR 672 Wimauma. The cost of this workshop is $25.00 (35.00 at the door).
Worker Protection Standards, Train the Trainer has changed. If you have a certificate for Train the Trainer that is dated before September 2016, you are required to update that training and receive a new certificate (I know that we were all told that the certificate would not expire – BUT that has changed). We are all to be retrained per the EPA. Also, many of the regulations pertaining to the training of agricultural workers have changed.
Come join us for the new revised training. You will receive a certificate in the mail once you have completed this new training.
Worker Protection Standards, Train the Trainer has changed. If you have a certificate for Train the Trainer that is dated before September 2016, you are required to update that training and receive a new certificate (I know that we were all told that the certificate would not expire – BUT that has changed). We are all to be retrained per the EPA. Also, many of the regulations pertaining to the training of agricultural workers have changed.
Come join us for the new revised training. You will receive a certificate in the mail once you have completed this new training.
CEUs Available (max of four): 4 Private Applicator, 4 Aerial application, 4 Ag Row Crop, 4 Ag Tree Crop, 4 Forestry, 4 Ornamental & Turf, 4 Soil and Greenhouse Fumigation
The link to register for this class is: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/commercial-wps-train-the-trainer-balm-tickets-42984117653
If you have any questions, please contact Angie at agigliotti@ufl.edu or 941-722-4524 extension - 1823.
Palm Management and OTC Injection Class
Agent Susan Haddock is holding a class on Palm Management and OTC Injections. Here is the agenda and registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/palm-management-with-core-sampling-otc-demos-tickets-46205077631?aff=eac2
Palm Management
8 am-12 noon
This workshop will combine lecture and demonstration of palm sampling and OTC injection technique.
Agenda
8-8:50 am IPM and Palm Management, Susan Haddock
9-9:50 am Lethal Bronzing Disease Diagnosis (same as Texas Phoenix Palm Decline-TPPD)
Safely Sampling and Injecting OTC, Wayne Grubbs
10-11:40 am Diagnosing and Correcting Palm Nutritional Deficiencies, Susan Haddock
11:45 am CEU Distribution and adjourn
CEUs:
FDACS - 2.0 Core and 2.0 LLO, LCLM, L&O, O&T, LUF; FNGLA - 4.0; Certified Arborist: 3.25;
Municipal Specialist: 3.25; BCMA - Science: 3.25; TW Climber Specialist: 3.25; TW Aerial Lift Specialist: 3.25;
Palm Management
8 am-12 noon
This workshop will combine lecture and demonstration of palm sampling and OTC injection technique.
Agenda
8-8:50 am IPM and Palm Management, Susan Haddock
9-9:50 am Lethal Bronzing Disease Diagnosis (same as Texas Phoenix Palm Decline-TPPD)
Safely Sampling and Injecting OTC, Wayne Grubbs
10-11:40 am Diagnosing and Correcting Palm Nutritional Deficiencies, Susan Haddock
11:45 am CEU Distribution and adjourn
CEUs:
FDACS - 2.0 Core and 2.0 LLO, LCLM, L&O, O&T, LUF; FNGLA - 4.0; Certified Arborist: 3.25;
Municipal Specialist: 3.25; BCMA - Science: 3.25; TW Climber Specialist: 3.25; TW Aerial Lift Specialist: 3.25;
Pest Alert: Hibiscus Bud Weevil
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| Photograph credit: Paul Skelley, FDACS-DPI and anonymous grower |
A new pest that attacks buds of hibiscus has been found in Florida in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Hernando Counties. The Hibiscus Bud Weevil (Anthonomus testaceosquamosus Linell) is gray and about 5 mm in length. The adult lays eggs on the buds of plants in the hibiscus/mallow family (Malvaceae). The developing larvae eats the new buds and causes flowers to prematurely abort. Growers should check plants for yellowing and dropping of new flower buds. For more information here is a factsheet on the pest from FDACS.
https://www.freshfromflorida.com/content/download/80995/2339573/Anthonomus_testaceosquamosus_Linell__hibiscus_bud_weevil.pdf
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