Course Name: 2024 Southwest Ag Summit

How Weather and Water Influence Pest Management

Module #1: Influence of Weather on Desert Insects and their Management

Dr. John Palumbo, University of Arizona, Yuma, AZ

Module #2: Water Management and Pest Management - What's the Connection?

Dr. Shaku Nair, University of Arizona, Maricopa County Cooperative Extension

Course Number:  CCA # SS 58722, 1.5 CEU's  

The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program provides fresh, unprocessed fruits, vegetables, and herbs to eligible participants. Eligible Participants include seniors over 60 years old who are at/under 185% of the federal poverty line. The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) authorizes farmers, farmers markets, farm stands, and local farmer cooperatives to accept SFMNP benefits in exchange for locally grown, unprocessed fresh fruits and vegetables in counties where SFMNP is operating. Eligible participants take their benefits to authorized farmers, farmers markets, farm stands, or local farmer cooperatives and redeem them for produce.

This is a required training for WV Farmer's Market Vendors and Markets to accept these benefits. You MUST complete sections 1 and 3 and the quiz in order to earn your completion certificate. Please complete this program by May 15th. 

This course should take approximately 1 hour to complete and may be completed in multiple sessions. 

By taking this course, students will learn:

The Worker Protection Standard (WPS) is a regulation developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect workers and handlers from the harmful effects of pesticides and their residues.  The standard went through some major revisions in 2015 and this course will reflect those changes.  

This course will cover some of the major points of the Worker Protection Standard and what employers need to cover with their employees in order to comply.  

Once you've completed this course, you should be able to:

• Define a worker and a handler
• Understand the importance of the WPS
• Know when compliance is necessary
• Identify the basic requirements needed by both a worker and handler to reduce their pesticide exposure

For more information please contact Rachel Maccini, Pesticide Safety Education Program Coordinator, University of New Hampshire, Cooperative Extension.

The fee for the course is $40.  To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:

About the Course:

This course is for program directors, coordinators, staff or anyone directly involved in working with volunteers.

Upon completion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Describe the benefits volunteers provide to programs and organizations
• Identify the roles and responsibilities of those involved in working with volunteers
• Identify the characteristics of an effective volunteer program 
• Use the 7-step ISOTURE model to help build volunteer engagement

Along the way, learners will assess their own program, using self-guided activities and resources and develop a volunteer engagement action plan.

Contact:

For more information or to enroll please contact:

• Gemma Miner, UC ANR, Academic Coordinator for Volunteer Engagement  gmminer@ucanr.edu
• UC ANR Course Support, idevelopsupport@ucanr.edu

Certified Biomass Procurement Specialist – Short Rotation Woody Crops is an online course for anyone interested in growing trees in a plantation.  In this course participants will learn about pine, popular and cottonwood trees and how each preforms in different environments.

For more information contact Mark Hall, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, hallmah@auburn.edu

For technical assistance please contact campushelp@extension.org

EC Workforce Training 2025 Family Engagement in Early Childhood

Course fee: $5.99 1-hour

For Technical support email: campushelp@extension.org

Instructor email: childcare@unr.edu

** This course is updated annually on January 1st. If you take the course multiple times, the certificate will show the original completion date and cannot be altered.

** The course will be inaccessible during the final two weeks of the year for maintenance. Any unfinished coursework will need to be completed in next year's course.

This training is not designed to run on smart phones, tablets or other small mobile devices.

This is an introductory course for the Vaccine Education series created by Clemson University Cooperative Extension.

Other courses in this series include:

• Vaccination as a Priority
• The Science of Vaccination
• The Critical Role of Extension Agents & Vaccine Education at the National Level
• Communication Strategies and Motivational Interviewing
• Motivational Interviewing and Case Studies
• Neuromarketing Strategies for Brain-Friendly Health Messaging in Extension Outreach

In this course, you will learn how neuromarketing principles can transform your outreach.

This course is part of the Vaccine Education series created by Clemson University Cooperative Extension.

• Getting Started: Vaccine Education Onboarding
• Vaccination as a Priority
• The Science of Vaccination
• The Critical Role of Extension Agents & Vaccine Education at the National Level
• Communication Strategies and Motivation Interviewing
• Motivational Interviewing Case Studies

In this course, you will learn how vaccines work to protect individuals and communities, gain insights into the rigorous regulatory processes ensuring vaccine safety, and review evidence supporting vaccine effectiveness.

This course is part of the Vaccine Education series created by Clemson University Cooperative Extension.

• Getting Started: Vaccine Education Onboarding
• Vaccination as a Priority
• The Critical Role of Extension Agents & Vaccine Education at the National Level
• Communication Strategies and Motivation Interviewing
• Motivational Interviewing Case Studies
• Neuromarketing Strategies for Brain-Friendly Health Messaging in Extension Outreach

For more information or to enroll contact: Mike Goatley, Turfgrass Extension Specialist / Professor Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech at goatley@vt.edu

Forest Engineering 2022

This course encompasses all of the presentations from the 2022 NER.COFE Workshop.  Each topic corresponds to each of the individual presentations and are approved for 0.5 Category 1 Forester Licensing credits by both SAF and the State of Maine.

The cost for each topic is $10.00 which is to cover recording, processing, and online fees, and will continue to support the NER.COFE organization as the in-person workshop does.

Any questions may be forwarded to: 

Ray Berthiaume, NER.COFE Chair, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist, Coos County Forester

Topic 4: Forest Market Update

Speaker: Eric Kingsley-INRS

An update of current forest product markets in the region.

Forest Engineering 2022

This course encompasses all of the presentations from the 2022 NER.COFE Workshop.  Each topic corresponds to each of the individual presentations and are approved for 0.5 Category 1 Forester Licensing credits by both SAF and the State of Maine.

The cost for each topic is $10.00 which is to cover recording, processing, and online fees, and will continue to support the NER.COFE organization as the in-person workshop does.

Any questions may be forwarded to: 

Ray Berthiaume, NER.COFE Chair, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist, Coos County Forester

Topic 7: Latest Bird Survey Update

Speaker: Joseph Roy, Private Lands Wildlife Biologist-Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

Discussion of some of the latest survey data and forest management recommendations around some of our threatened bird species.

Forest Engineering 2022

This course encompasses all of the presentations from the 2022 NER.COFE Workshop.  Each topic corresponds to each of the individual presentations and are approved for 0.5 Category 1 Forester Licensing credits by both SAF and the State of Maine.

The cost for each topic is $10.00 which is to cover recording, processing, and online fees, and will continue to support the NER.COFE organization as the in-person workshop does.

Any questions may be forwarded to: 

Ray Berthiaume, NER.COFE Chair, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist, Coos County Forester

Topic 8: Moose/Winter Ticks

Speaker: Lee Kantar, State Moose biologist-Maine Inland Fisheries & Wildlife

The status and management of our Moose herd as a result of winter tick infestations, and associated forest management guidelines/recommendations associated with enhancing Moose habitat.

Forest Engineering 2022

This course encompasses all of the presentations from the 2022 NER.COFE Workshop.  Each topic corresponds to each of the individual presentations and are approved for 0.5 Category 1 Forester Licensing credits by both SAF and the State of Maine.

The cost for each topic is $10.00 which is to cover recording, processing, and online fees, and will continue to support the NER.COFE organization as the in-person workshop does.

Any questions may be forwarded to: 

Ray Berthiaume, NER.COFE Chair, UNH Cooperative Extension Field Specialist, Coos County Forester

Topic 9: Shoreland Zoning Presentation

Speaker: Terri Coolong-Maine Forest Service

A review and discussion of current shoreland zone rules and guidelines.