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CPRI Presentation to National Potato Expo

This February CPRI Director Leonard Gianessi was invited to be a featured speaker on sustainabiltiy at the National Potato Expo. Director Gianessi presented his talk on the sustainability of potato production in the present and in the coming years. His presentation was recorded and has been edited into the video below. Please leave your feedback in the comments!


American Society of Agronomy Presentation,
Fresno, CA:

On February 2, 2009 Leonard Gianessi, director, CPRI, debuted his newest presentation, Benefits and Trends of Insecticide Use in California Crops, to the American Society of Agronomy at their annual Plant and Soil Conference in Fresno, California. This presentation provides an examination of the historical record documenting the importance of insecticides in California in preventing crop losses due to destructive insect and mite species. Further information about the ASA Plant and Soil Conference can be found by clicking here.

Mr. Gianessi presented the following documents:

CropLife Foundation Press Release: Insceticides Play Role In Greatly Reducing California Crop Losses

Benefits and Trends of Insecticide Use in California Crops (Summary)

Benefits and Trends of Insecticide Use in California Crops
(Presentation)

 

Bugbusters  Spore Wars  War of the Weeds

Downloads

War of the Weeds (Presentation / Transcript / Video / Flyer)

Spore Wars (Presentation / Transcript / Video / Flyer)

Bug Busters (Presentation / Transcript / Video / Flyer)

Articles

"The Value of Herbicides in U.S. Crop Production," Weed Technology, 21: 559-566, 2007.

"Importance of Fungicides in U.S. Crop Production," Outlooks on Pest Management, October 2006.

CPRI's paper on the importance of chemical pesticides presented at the Third International Conference on the Future of Agriculture was published in a proceedings volume available at http://www.engg.ksu.edu/chsr/events/ag/200608/.

Historical APS Chemical Control and Fungicide Reports Posted on the CropLife Foundation Website, Phytopathology News, American Phytopathological Society, Vol. 38, No. 12, p. 168, December, 2004.

Gianessi, Leonard and Nathan Reigner, Herbicides Extremely Important to Carrot Growers, Carrot Country, Fall, 2004.

Gianessi, Leonard, Biotechnology Expands Pest-Management Options for Horticulture, California Agriculture, April-May, 2004.
Available at http://californiaagriculture.ucop.edu/recent.html

Poster

Did you Know?: Organic farmers use pesticides too.

Why do U.S. farmers spray so many acres of crops with pesticides every year?

Did you know?: fruit and vegetable crops have been dependent on pesticides for 100 years?

Pesticide use is widespread in U.S. Crop production

 

If you are looking for materials for the Foundation's African Weed Control Project you may now find them on a dedicated page located here