About this Workshop?
This one day interactive workshop provides participants with practical guidelines on how to effectively control and manage pests in a container nursery environment, using the strategy of Integrated pest management.
Workshop outcomes
On the completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand different management options available and how they can be integrated
- Identify limitations to current management methods
- Use monitoring techniques effectively
- Use relevant monitoring equipment, including hand lenses, sticky traps, etc
- Establish a plan for pest management
- Assess the effectiveness of the implemented pest management strategies
Session length
1 day (8:30am – 4:30pm) Refreshment & Lunch provided
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for people responsible for controlling and managing pests and diseases in a nursery operation; people who routinely look for pests, record their presence or absence and are required to carry out control operations.
Benefits
Participants will:
- Be able to establish and implement a plan for pest management
- Be able to identify preventative strategies for pest management
- Have an understanding integrated pest management
- Be able to plan and implement pest management strategies
Workshop pre-requisites
Participants attending this workshop should have:
- Completed the Foundation level course in this series or have a good working knowledge of nursery pests
and
- Completed a ChemCert (or equivalent) qualification
Pre-work
Complete Activity 1 before the workshop
NGI Skill Level
Intermediate
CNP activity points
6 points
Workshop Outline
The workshop includes:
- Understanding the management options available:
- Physical considerations (growing conditions – heat, humidity, screens, traps and quarantine)
- Cultural considerations (horticultural practices, eg nutrients, irrigation, sanitation, resistant plant varieties, disease-free planting material)
- Chemical considerations
- Biological considerations
- Discussing and identifying the limitations of the current methods used by participants
- Developing a monitoring plan:
- Using relevant monitoring equipment, including hand lenses, sticky traps, flagging tape, etc
- Establishing a plan for pest management
- Assessing the effectiveness of pest management strategy using relevant records
Delivery guidelines
This topic can be delivered as a stand alone workshop, or in conjunction with the Foundation and Executive levels.
Speaker requirements
The trainer should have:
Essential
- Knowledge and application of nursery plant production, development of IPM strategies, pest and beneficial identification, pesticide safety and application technologies, OH&S, monitoring, plant nutrition, record keeping
- 5 years industry experience
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment or equivalent
Desirable
- Applied Science training at tertiary level
Guest speaker could be an IPM scout who discusses monitoring strategies, or an expert in physical or cultural management options.
Delivery suggestions (Full workshop)
The emphasis in this one day interactive workshop should be on participants developing skills and tools (monitoring and pest management plans) that can be used to control and manage pests in their particular nursery situations. The workshop will provide practical information to participants on how to control and manage pests.
Participants should be provided with:
- Pests, Diseases, Disorders and Beneficials in Ornamentals: Field Identification
Allow time to practice monitoring skills in a nursery and have monitoring tools available for use (including hand lens, sticky traps, flagging tape and sampling containers).
Have sample recording sheets (and sample records) available for demonstration and use in the practical activity.
The workshop should ideally be delivered in a nursery, where participants can sit and watch presentations as well as practice learnt skills in an area of the nursery. An educational or government facility often has appropriate facilities.
Delivery suggestions (30 minute overview)
A teaser segment on the workshop should:
- Give an example that relates the importance of pest management to a nursery operation – and ask for feedback
- Explain the benefits to an individual or business of the best options for managing pest problems to minimise the costs (especially integrated and preventative strategies) impact on the crop and the management costs (especially preventative strategies) – see Benefits
- Outline the workshop aim and outcomes
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