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3:00 - 7:00 Registration
8:00 - 4:30 Registration
11:30 - 1:15 Lunch and Keynote Address
The Honorable John E. Baldacci, Member
of the House Agriculture and Small
Business Committees, United States House
of Representatives
1:25 - 1:30 Moderator Call to Order and Announcements
1:30 - 2:00 Introduction & Purpose, 1984 Conference Revisited, John Impson,USDA; Jay Ellenberger, Associate Director, Field & External Affairs Diviion, Office of Pesticide Programs, US EPA; James Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension; Thomas Saviello, Chair, Maine Board of Pesticides Control
2:00 - 3:00 Computer Modeling, David Esterly, Spray Drift Task Force
3:00 - 3:45 Practical Applications of G.P.S. Technology, Harold W. Thistle, Jr., Ph.D., Missoula Technology and Development Center, USDA-Forest Service
3:45 - 4:15 Break/Visit Posters and Displays
4:15 - 5:00 Pesticide Drift and Organic Certification, Miles McEvoy, Organic Program Manager, Washington State Department of Agriculture
6:00 - 9:00 Mixer and Hors D'oeuvres at the Portland Museum of Art
7:00 - 7:55 Continental Breakfast
7:30 - 4:30 Registration
7:55 - 8:00 Moderator Call to Order and Announcements
8:00 - 8:45 Legal Liability Issues, Theodore A. Feitshans, J.D., Extension Specialist and Lecturer, North Carolina State University, Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics
8:45 - 9:30 Case Studies on Controversial Drift Problems and EPA's Goals on Drift Reduction, Jay Ellenberger, Associate Director, Field & External Affairs Division, Office of Pesticide Programs, US EPA
9:30 - 10:15 Drift Laws, Theodore A. Feitshans, J.D., Extension Specialist and Lecturer, North Carolina State University, Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics
10:15 - 10:45 Break/Visit Posters and Displays
10:45 - 11:30 Weather Effects on Drift, Harold W. Thistle, Jr., Ph.D., Missoula Technology and Development Center, USDA-Forest Service
11:30 - 12:15 The Importance of Nozzle Selection and Droplet Size Control in Spray Application, Dr. Andrew J. Hewitt, Spray Drift Task Force/Stewart Agricultural Research Services
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch/Visit Posters and Displays
1:30 - 2:45 Five Concurrent Sessions on Application Equipment and Drift
2:45 - 3:10 Break/Visit Posters and Displays
3:10 - 3:15 Moderator Call to Order and Announcements
3:15 - 4:15 Drift Happens: A National Public Interest Perspective, Norma Grier, Executive Director, Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
4:15 - 5:30 Risk Perception and Communication, Vincent T. Covello, Ph.D., Director, Center for Risk Communication
6:00 - 9:00 Optional Bus Trip to Freeport and L.L. Bean
7:00 - 7:55 Continental Breakfast
7:55 - 8:00 Moderator Call to Order and Announcements
8:00 - 8:45 Chemistry and Drift Management: A Biologist's Perspective, Roger Downer, Research Associate, The Ohio State University
8:45 - 9:30 Changing Pilot Behavior, Niels C. Andrews, Chairman, Aerial Application Committee, Helicopter Association International and PAASS Program Technical Advisor
9:30 - 10:30 Summary of Research in Ohio including the Laboratory for Pest Control Application Technology (LPCAT), Robert D. Fox, Agricultural Engineer, USDA-ARS
10:30 - 11:00 Break/Visit Posters and Displays
11:00 - 11:30 Reducing Drift from Air Assisted Sprayers Using Timing, Targeting and Towers, Gary R. Van Ee, Professor, Agricultural Engineering Dept., Michigan State University
11:30 - 12:15 Insurance Issues, Mike Kelly, Farmland Insurance, Des Moines, Iowa
12:15 - 1:25 Lunch/Visit Posters and Displays
1:25 - 1:30 Moderator Call to Order and Announcements
1:30 - 2:30 The Measurement and Prediction of Spray Drift - Work at the Silsoe Research Institute, Professor Paul Miller, Silsoe Research Institute
2:30 - 5:00 Small Group Concurrent Sessions for Drift Management Practice Development
5:15 - 6:15 Social Hour/Visit Posters and Displays
6:45 - 7:40 Continental Breakfast
7:40 - 7:45 Moderator Call to Order and Announcements
7:45 - 9:00 Summary of Spray Drift Task Force Pesticide Registration Work, David Johnson, Stewart Agricultural Research Services, Inc. and Spray Drift Task Force
9:00 - 10:00 A Summary of Spray Drift Research in Canada, Christopher M. Riley, Manager Spray Technology, New Brunswick Research and Productivity Council
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Update from Spray Drift Coalition, Paul Kindinger, President/CEO, Agricultural Retailers Association & Co-Chair, National Coalition to Minimize Spray Drift
11:30 - 12:45 Small Group Reports (15 minutes each)
12:45 - 1:00 Wrap-up
1:30 - 4:30 Optional Bus Trip to Freeport and L.L. Bean
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Last updated March 5, 1998.