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2016 Conference Planning Agenda
28
TH
ANNUAL
TEXAS PLANT PROTECTION CONFERENCE
“Advanced Technology for Texas Agriculture”
December 6, 2016
7:30 am – 5 pm--------------------------------------------------------------------Conference Registration Desk Open
7:30 – 9:00 am------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Table-top Displays Set-up
7:30 – 9:00 am --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Posters Set Up
8:30 am – 12:00 noon------------------------------------------------------------------------------------General Session #1
Moderator: Betsy Pierson, TPPA President
8:30 – 8:45 am “Welcome and Conference Introduction” - Betsy Person, TPPA President
8:45– 9:00 am “Welcome” - John Tracy, Director, Texas Water Resources Institute,
College Station, TX
9:00 – 9:30 am 1 “Advanced Technology Overview” – Bob Avant, Program Director, Texas
A & M AgriLife Research, College Station, TX
9:30 – 1O:00 am 2 “Apps for Agriculture” – Ron Smith, Editor, Southwest Farm Press and
Kara Matheny, Texas A & M AgriLife Extension Service
10:00 – 10:30 am BREAK
10:30 – 11:00 am 3 “UAVs & Use of Ag Data” - Alex Thomasson, Department of Biological
and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station,
TX
11:00 – 11:15 am 4 “Texas Crop Register” - Bob Coulson, Department of Entomology,
Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
11:15 – 11:30 am 5 “Flag the Technology App” – Todd Sink, Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries Science, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX
11:30 – Noon 6 “Agriculture in an Unknown Federal Environment of Regulations and
Policy”– Chandler Goule, CEO, National Wheat Growers,
Washington, DC