1. Pesticide Applicator Training Update
Ric Bessin

2. 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

3. What are the Changes to PAT?

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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)

13. 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

14. Need: To routinely replace older videos
Create a mini-grants program ($ /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?

15. 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?