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Impact Report

For plan Integrated Pest Management Systems (Bernalillo County)
Date October 14, 2008, 5:06 pm
For Objective Medium-term Show medium-term objectives
Impact Report Ornamental, Turf, & Agriculture CEU Workshop 2008: There is an annual requirement to provide Continuing Education Unit (CEU) training and NMDA certification to Ornamental, Turf and Agricultural pesticide license holders. The training was directed to serve 150 license holders whose licenses expire December 31st each year. This year, the license year changed to start January 1st, and all renewals will be due by December 31st each year for all categories. Planning was accomplished by telephone with Valencia and Sandoval County Extension Agents and an Albuquerque NMDA Pesticide staff member. The agent coordinated the rental and use of the 4-H Center facility, advertising brochures, promoted via mail and e-mail. Also contacted NMSU specialists and speakers to present topics and identify AV and handout needs. Contacted NMDA to award CEU’s from the program. We collected the pre-registrations and registrations at this office utilizing the secretarial staff. This secretarial staff coordinated the collection of purchase orders and payments since this was a fee workshop. The workshop had 60 participants who qualified to re-certify their NMDA pesticide licenses. Formal evaluation revealed that 79% of the participants considered the information and methods of presentation to be above average. The evaluation instrument was a scale of 5 with 5 being the highest. (5 received 50% of the rating). Topics requested for 2009 were Safe Pesticides around aquatic environments, more IPM techniques, Target (spot) spraying, pruning and watering, more about beneficial insects and backflow devices. Agencies and businesses who participated were: NMSU Specialist / Ag Science Centers, BIA, USDA Forest Service, City of Portales, City of Albuquerque Parks & Recreation, UNM Physical Plant, City of Clovis, Gallup-McKinley County School District, and Albuquerque Bio Park & Botanic Gardens.