Day 1, Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Welcome
Daniel A. Sumner, Director, UC Ag. Issues Center; and Frank H. Buck Jr. Chair Professor, Ag. and Resource Economics, UCD

Keynote address
A.G. Kawamura, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture

Opening plenary session. Driving forces for California agriculture
Chair W.R. “Reg” Gomes, Vice President, Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of California

Economic forces for the next decade. (450 kb)
Vernon Crowder, Senior Vice President Bank of America

Food, nutrition and California agriculture. Part A (440 kb)... Part B (350kb)
Carl Keen, Professor Nutrition Department, UC Davis

Developing a new research system for the new millennium. (25 kb).
Ted Batkin, President California Citrus Board

Lunch
Chair Joseph MacIlvane, President, Paramount Farms

Incentives? disincentives for California agriculture. (660 kb)
Stuart Woolf, CEO, Woolf Enterprises

Concurrent Session I – Public policy, Understanding the public policy setting and California agriculture
Chair Jasper Hempel, Executive Vice President, Western Growers Association

Policy overview for California agriculture: challenges and opportunities. (364 kb)
Jay E. Noel, Director, California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops and Professor, California Polytechnic University, SLO

California policy process.
Bill Lyons, Past Director, California Department of Food and Agriculture

Federal policy process and California agriculture.
Tom O’Brien, Attorney, Thelen, Reid and Priest, LLP - Government Affairs Department

Concurrent Session I – Marketing & management

Current issues and concerns for California marketing
Chair Rodger Wasson, CEO, California Strawberry Commission

California and national issues for cooperatives and related organizations. (24 kb)
Michael Boland, Professor, Agricultural Economics, KSU and Associate Director – Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, KSU

Lessons from a CEO. (Part A (700 kb)... Part B (600 kb)
Michael Mendes, CEO, Diamond of California

The changing marketplace for California crops. Part A (270 kb)... Part B (600kb)... Part C (500 kb)...Part D (340 kb)
Roberta Cook, Extension Specialist, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

Concurrent session II – Technology and marketing. New and specialty crops and new challenges
Chair Sonya Varea-Hammond, County Director - Public Policy - Biotechnology Education and Land Use

Marketing ‘Specialty’ Specialty Crops. Part A (440 kb)... Part B (350kb)... Part C (830 kb)... Part D (670 kb)... PartE (220 kb)... Part F (914 kb)... Part G (900 kb)... Part H (500 kb)
Bill Gerlach, Research and Development Director, Melissa’s Specialty Products, Los Angeles

New specialty crops for California. Part A (500 kb)... Part B (600kb)... Part C (700 kb)...Part D (500 kb)
Mark Gaskell, UC Specialty Crops Workgroup and Small Farm Program

Postharvest handling issues with specialty crops. Part A (1560 kb)... Part B (600kb)... Part C (1560 kb)
Marita Cantwell, Extension Specialist, Department of Vegetable Crops, UC Davis

Concurrent session II – Public policy. International trade and policy
Chair Cornelius Gallagher, Vice President, Bank of America

A global marketing and trade policy. (900 kb)
Devry Boughner, Director – International Relations, Cargill, Inc.

Overview of trade negotiations at the WTO.(380 kb)
Tim Josling, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

A California industry perspective
Joe. Zanger, President, Casa de Fruta and Chair, California Farm Bureau Agricultural Trade Committee

Concurrent session II – Technology. Air & water quality
Chair Karen Ross, President, California Association of Winegrape Growers

VOC Issues (volatile organic compounds emissions from pesticides). (444 kb)
Randy Segawa, Sr. Environmental Research Scientist, California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Conservation tillage as a strategy to reduce dust in row crop systems.
Jeff Mitchell, Associate Cropping Systems Specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis and Kearney Ag Center, Parlier

Bioremediation of ground water environments. Part A (450 kb)... Part B (750kb)... Part C (1200 kb)
Kate Scow, Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, UC Davis

Day 2, Thursday, March 24, 2005

Concurrent session III - Technology. Technology: pest management and crop production
Chair Dorcas McFarlane, Farmer, Ventura and Fresno counties

Use of genetic engineering to solve some California production problems. (840 kb)
Eduardo Blumwald, Professor, Pomology Department, UC Davis

Cover Crops and mulches for pest control (760 kb)
Mark Hoddle, Urban Biological Control Specialist, Department of Entomology, UC Riverside

New approaches to assessing fusarium in cotton (460 kb)
Robert Hutmacher, Associate Cooperative Extension Specialist UC Shafter Research and Extension Center
R. Michael Davis, Professor - Plant Pathology and Cooperative Extension Specialist Department of Plant Pathology, UCD

Concurrent session III - Policy. The environment: regulation and public goods
Chair Hank Giclas, Vice President, Science & Technology, Strategic Planning, Western Growers Association

The EPA View . Part A (400 kb)... Part B (400kb)... Part C (970 kb)
Katherine A. Taylor, Manager - Pesticides and Toxics programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pacific Southwest region

Agriculture: not just for breakfast anymore (50 kb).
Ken Trott, Staff Environmental Scientist, California Department of Food and Agriculture

Conservation and public goods.
Jonathan Kaplan, Project Specialist, Natural Resources Defense Council


Concurrent session III – Marketing and policy
Chair A.J. Yates, Deputy UnderSecretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture

Marketing orders and promotion: law and economic issues. (47 kb)
Richard Sexton, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

Traceability and commodity demand. (833 kb)
Mechel Paggi, Director, Center for Agricultural Business. California Agricultural Technology Institute, CSU, Fresno

Marketing issues. (93 kb)
Greg Magill, Broker, Joseph W. Ciatti Co

Concurrent session IV - Technology. Biotechnology, food quality and food safety
Chair A. Charles Crabb, Dean, College of Agriculture, California State University, Chico

Meeting the challenges of food safety on fresh produce: A report card for California. Part A (500 kb)... Part B (500kb)... Part C (500 kb)...Part D (700 kb)
Trevor Suslow, Extension Specialist, Vegetable Crops Department, UC Davis

Biotechnology for California: Science, Policy and Marketing. (850 kb)
Kent Bradford, Director, UC Seed Biotechnology Center, and Chair, Professor & Plant Physiologist-AES, UC Davis

Biopesticide contribution to agricultural production: quality and safety.Part A ( 350 kb)...Part B (750kb)
Denise C. Manker, Vice President – Research and Development, AgraQuest

Concurrent session IV - Policy and management. Agricultural resources: policy and management
Chair Elizabeth L Hund, Managing Director - Western Region San Francisco, Rabobank

Three Worries for California Water Management (175 kb).
Richard Howitt, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

Land (rural and urban interface issues) (980 kb).
Alvin Sokolow, Extension Specialist Emeritus, Human and Community Development, UCD & Associate Director, UC AIC

Farm labor: agricultural production and rural communities. MS Word file (36 kb).
Phillip Martin, Professor, Dept. of Ag. & Resource Economics, UCD &Chair, UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program

Lunch session.
Chair Ronald A. Voss, Extension Veg.Specialist Veg. Crops Dept, UCD and Manager, UC Specialty Crops Research Program

Neal Van Alfen, Dean, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, UC Davis

Closing session – Future challenges & opportunities
Chair David Wehner, Dean, College of Agriculture, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

Maximizing opportunities for California agriculture.
Bill Pauli, President, California Farm Bureau Federation

Sustainable agriculture and new technologies – transforming problems into win-win situations. Part A (400 kb)... Part B (600kb)... Part C (540 kb)... Part D (890kb)...Part E (100 kb)
Rick Roush, Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Programs, University of California

California Agriculture in its global context: policy and market challenges and opportunities (615 kb).
Daniel A. Sumner, Director, UC Ag. Issues Center; and Frank H. Buck Jr. Chair Professor, Ag. and Resource Economics, UCD

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