Tuesday Morning Notes

July 17th, 2001


Welcome Victoria Wesley, Extension Agent, ANR/4-H Youth Development, San Carlos Indian Reservation. Victoria received her M. S. in forestry from Northern Arizona University and recently worked as a Forest Health Specialist on the San Carlos Reservation. She can be reached at 520.475.2350, vwesley@cals.arizona.edu.

* I took the Human Subjects test required by NIH and UA for faculty doing any type of surveys...I passed! It took me about 2 hours to do this open book test. (The books were sent to each county several weeks ago.) Remember all faculty are required to take this. Download it at http://vpr2.admin.arizona.edu/rie/uaonly/. If you have any questions, contact me or Deborah Young.

* My thanks to Barbara Hutchinson and George Ruyle for their excellent presentations of the Arizona AgNIC program and the Range Management website at the joint meetings of the Western Region Deans and Directors last week in Colorado. We are trying to make this partnership between Extension and the agricultural libraries a regional effort.

* Thanks also to Barry Bequette, Rob Grumbles, Carol Willis and Steve Campbell for their participation in the annual Mid-Managers workshop this week in Colorado.

* The Arizona Grain Research and Promotion Council (AGRPC) is soliciting research proposals to investigate pertinent subjects involving barley, wheat and the Arizona grain industry, such as reduction of fresh water consumption, developing new varieties, improving production, and handling methods. Designing, improving harvesting, and handling equipment, developing and expanding markets and reducing marketing costs. It has allocated a budget of approximately $20,000.00 to support research efforts in the general subject areas cited above during the fiscal year beginning July 2001. Projects focusing on barley are of particular interest. The deadline is August 6, 200. For more information please call the Executive's Director's office: 2120 East Allen Road, Tucson, AZ 85719, (520) 318-7271/FAX (520) 318-7272. E-mail address: azcrop@cals.arizona.edu

* 2001Cotton Field Day, Maricopa Agriculture Center, Thursday, July 19, 2001 from 8:00-9:30am. Focus area will be Double Line Per Bed Research 2001, and Making Decisions for Lygus and Whitefly Management 2001. For more information please contact the Maricopa County Office at (602) 470-8086.




James A. Christenson, Ph.D.
(jimc@cals.arizona.edu)
Associate Dean and Director
Arizona Cooperative Extension
Forbes, Room 301
Tucson, Arizona 85721
520/621-7209
520/621-1314 FAX