ESA and The Pesticide Strategies
What Do All of Us Need To Know?
What: Pesticide labeling is changing to incorporate protections for Endangered and Threatened species. Only recently have labeled herbicides addressed ESA, but as additional herbicides are labeled and existing herbicides are re-registered, these changes will be more common. This meeting will address how these changes will impact pesticide applications and discuss what needs to be considered when selecting specific pesticides.
Date: March 13, Thursday
Where: Where: Maryland Department of Agriculture
50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401
Organizers: Niranjana Krishnan, Univ Maryland, Entomologist
Bill Chism, WSSA, Chair of ESA Committee
Kurt Vollmer, Univ. Maryland, Weed Scientist
Mark VanGessel, Univ Delaware, Weed Scientist
Time: 9:00 to 1:00 pm, meeting includes lunch
Objectives:
i.Provide background on ESA
ii.How end users will use “the strategies” when making pesticides decisions
iii.Improve the training materials for a wider audience.
Topics:
| Order | Topic | Time |
| 1 | Background on ESA | 9:00 |
| 2 | Herbicide Strategy | 9:20 |
| 3 | Insecticide Strategy (draft) – what differs from Herbicide strategy | 9:35 |
| 4 | National Marine Fisheries Service – points are different and will this change? | 9:50 |
| 5 | State Regulators, DE & MD | 10:00 |
| 6 | Spray drift and calculations | 10:20 |
| Break | 10:45 | |
| 7 | Runoff/Erosion Mitigation calculations and calculator | 11:00 |
| 8 | Bulletins Live! Two go through an example | 11:25 |
| 9 | Example calculations from their own fields and report on the experience | 11:40 |
| 10 | Lunch | 12:20 |
| 11 | What can we do to improve the training? | 12:50 |
Credits are available for Delaware and Maryland pesticide applicator credits (MD: 8 credits),
Certified Crop Advisor credits (1.5 Soil and Water Management; 1 Integrated Pest Management) and NAICC (4.5 CEU credits).
In order to achieve Objective iii (improving training materials) we will be recording the presentations
Please Register
THERE IS NO COST, but we ask that you pre-register at: https://forms.gle/hZU2pFxmEnh6i7EA9
