Pesticide Applicator Training Update Ric Bessin

Change in Pesticide Education Management Dr. T transitioning away from PAT (PSEP) Lee has done an outstanding job with little support Bessin taking over PAT My goal Making it the best program it can be To support agents

What are the Changes to PAT?

Major Changes in the Draft Proposal Fees to become private applicators, collected by agents Requires KDA support to open KAR’s Fees to access training manuals Requires developing new manuals Fees to received Commercial CEU’s Many meetings out of our control

Who makes up our Clientele? Private Applicators ~15,000 Commercial Applicators ~15,000 Primarily ag producers Industrial, Institutional, Structural and Health Related (7,507) Ornamental and Turf (3,821) Right-of-Way (2,216)

Training Strategies Core and category specific manuals on line Private Applicators Commercial Applicators Core manual on line On-line training videos Classroom training by agents Certification god for 3 years Testing if requested No fee Retrain every 3 years Core and category specific manuals on line KDA administered testing $25 9 general/ 3 category specific hours of CEU needed every 3 years

Private Applicator Competence Recognize common pests and damage caused       Read and understand the label (pesticide common names, pests controlled, timing/methods of application, safety precautions, PHI/REI, disposal procedures) Apply pesticides in according to label instructions (proper concentration taking into account area to be covered, speed at which application equipment will be driven, and the quantity used in given period) Recognize local environmental situations to avoid contamination Recognize poisoning symptoms and procedures to follow Know standards for the supervision of noncertified persons Understand the Worker Protection Standards Use personal protective equipment for handling of pesticides Understand the standards for storage of pesticides

Private Applicator Videos General Videos Pesticide sprayers and application Introduction (New 2/17) (4:28) Identifying and managing resistant weeds (9/16) (10:11) Tips for laundering pesticide -contaminated clothing (HE2-319) Washing pesticide contaminated clothing (12/15) (1:27) Pesticide spill prevention #1 (12/15) (1:36) How to handle a pesticide spill #2(12/15) (3:04) Personal safety while working with spills #3 (12/15) (2:34) Soil herbicide carryover (12/14) (8:50) 10 Common herbicide application mistakes (11/13) (4:40) Invasive insects (12/13) (1:12:29) Soil insects: Cutworms, seed maggots and wireworms (11/13) (17:10) Soil insects: White grubs (11/13) (17:10) USDA Pesticide Recordkeeping video* (2/13) (7) Herbicide carryover (1/13) (6) Generic pesticides (6) Pesticide news (9) Reducing pesticide exposure (19) Storing pesticides safely (5) Preventing dicamba drift (8/17) (2:45) How not to spray into an inversion (8/17) (2:11) Herbicide spray drift demonstration (9/16) (7:00) Preventing pesticide spray drift (9/16) (33:06) Calibrating a boom sprayer (12/14) (4:30) Calibrating an airblast sprayer (P1) (12/14) (10:00) Calibrating an airblast sprayer (P2) (12/14) (10:00) Reducing pesticide drift (11/14) (5:08) Spray nozzles and drift (11) Cleaning a sprayer (8)

Private Applicator Videos Grain crops, hay, and pastures Corn Getting ready for 2,4-D and dicamba technology (12/15)(5:00) Palmer amaranth and waterhemp in Kentucky 10/15 (3:35) Palmer amaranth Ohio and Indiana 11/14 (11:00) Angoumois grain moth: a pest of stored ear corn 10/14 (13:02) Palmer amaranth on the move 10/14 (4:44) Herbicide resistant weeds and management strategies 12/13 (55) Slugs, rodents, and birds (18) Alfalfa What hay producers should know about blister beetles (12/15) (4:50) Foliar fungicides on alfalfa (11/13) (3.50) Corn diseases to watch: Southern corn rust & Tar spot 9/16 (4:40) Southern corn rust 12/15 (4:30) Detection of Southern rust in Kentucky (12/13) (24:45) Fungicide use in corn (12/13) (52:10) Borers in corn (11/13) (16:35) Corn rootworms (11/13) (16:25) Goss's wilt of corn (1/13) (3) Disease prevention in corn (17:00) Wet spring weed control in corn (6) Late season corn insects (5) Fungicide resistance in corn (6) Pastures Pasture weeds: Most toxic to horses (9/16) (8:19) Weed control in pastures 9/16 (35:28) Poison hemlock in pastures (5)

Private Applicator Videos Sorghum Tobacco Standing against the pest: Managing the sugarcane aphid(9/16) (3:25) Soybean Weed control issues & new technology (9/17) (10:00) Sudden death syndrome of soybean (9/16) (3:25) Common insect pests in Tennessee soybean (9/16) (9:42) Neonicotinoid seed treatments - Univ Nebraska (12/15) (5:40) Soybean diseases, soybean cyst nematode, & fungicides (12/13) (56:40) Charcoal rot (2/13) (5:40) The kudzu bug (1/13) (13:30) Dectes stem borer in soybeans (1/13) (16) Spider mites and insect pests in soybeans (4) Fungicides for tobacco transplants (11/13) (4:30) Tray drench & transplant water insecticides for tobacco pests (2/13) (8:18) Managing insects and other pests in float systems (1/13) (9:15) Managing Pythium root rot in float beds (1/13) (4) Wheat Wheat disease management (9/17) (18:00) Fall management of herbicide-resistance in wheat (12/15) (4:07) Wheat insects and the green bridge (10/14) (6:13) Wheat herbicides and cool temperatures (11/13) (3) Managing volunteer corn before planting wheat (1/13) (6) Ryegrass control in wheat (5)

Private Applicator Videos Vegetables Fruit Whiteflies in high tunnel tomatoes (10/15) (3:40) Greenhouse pesticide safety (11/14) (7:40) Mite and insect problems with high tunnel tomatoes (11/13) (6:25) Vegetable fungicides (1/13) (7) Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on lettuce and tomato (1/13) (3:30) Bacterial diseases of tomato (3) Bt sweet corn (5) Cole crop insects (4) Managing pesticide residues at harvest (9) Greenhouse/High Tunnels Worker Protection Standard in greenhouses (14:28) Update Greenhouse safety (6:43) Understanding pesticide labels (2:26) Monitoring greenhouse pests (11:22) Vegetable disease management (10:16) Greenhouse pest exclusion - scouting and monitoring (8:26) Using beneficial mites to manage thrips & two spotted spider mites (5:15) Brown marmorated stink bug management in apples (9/16) (4:18) Blueberry insect management: Spotted wing Drosophila (9/16) (5:12) Other Blueberry Pests (9/16) (5:12) Managing Pythium root rot in float beds (1/13) (4) Spotted wing Drosophila (12/13) (57:50) Fruit growers orchard meeting (12/13) (1:47:14) Spotted wing Drosophila management (12/13) (6:45) Fireblight management (11/13) (3:50) Spring strawberry pests (2/13) (6) Black rot of grape (2/6/13) (1:53) Blueberry mosaic virus (1/18/13) (3) Strawberry gray fruit mold (3) Spanish WPS Pesticide Handler Training (50:23) Training greenhouse workers to handle pesticides safely (17:02) Mitigating pesticide risks for applicators (9/16) (9:26) Pesticide safety Part 1 (9:40) Pesticide safety Part 2 (8:40) Chasing the sun (36:12)

Video Releases/Updates 2017 – 5 2016 – 12 2015 – 10 2014 – 10 2013 – 34 Goal to have new videos/updates every 3 years (minimum) Insect/disease/weeds/products

Need: To routinely replace older videos Create a mini-grants program ($200-500/video) Annually there would be a call for proposals on targeted topics Involve more specialists and agent in developing materials ½ page proposals would include Learning objects Questions for evaluation Each video would be vetted by specialists/agents Sources of funding? Means of supporting agents?

Discussion How can we better support you? New topics for videos? Needed video update/replacement? Support for hands-on/classroom training Doing more with Zoom/Skype annually Insect/disease/weeds/products Who are using the test?