Join us for a full-day workshop dedicated to advancing strategies for managing quarantine pathogens that create trade barriers, understanding the role of Manchurian crabapple pollinizers in their spread, and exploring potential replacements. The program will also highlight best practices to enhance pollination, optimize crop load management, and support bee health.

This workshop is made possible through the support of the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program.

Workshop Topics:

• Quarantine pathogens: sources and management
• On-site detection of export-related pathogens
• Identifying new pollinizers to replace Manchurian crabapples
• Enhancing pollination efficiency
• Precision crop-load management
• Bee foraging and health

Format

• Expert presentations
• Discussion
• In-person

Speakers

• Achour Amiri, Washington State University
• Arild Aryfin, Washington State University
• Stefano Musacchi, Washington State University
• Sara Serra, Pennsylvania State University
• Tory Schmidt, Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission
• Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Arizona State University

Agenda

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Registration

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