Extensive Compatibility List for use with Botanigard
This is an extensive listing of what products can and can’t be safely mixed with Botanigard in your sprayer. BotaniGard Extensive Compatibility Listing
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Hawaii Board of Agriculture Changes for B.Bassiana Documents
Received, March 8, 2011 TO: Kona Coffee Farmers Association This is to inform you that the Hawaii Department of Agriculture is seeking comments regarding the proposed Board of Agriculture order to change the list placement of Beauveria bassiana GHA by deleting B. bassiana GHA from the List of Restricted Microorganisms (Part A) and adding B.…
KCFA Brew Pub Tour – March 6, 2011
“A good time was had by all.
HDOA, Board of Agriculture Hearing in Kona – February 22, 2011
Testifiers were: Colehour Bondera-KCFA, Ben Dysart-KCFA, Una Greenaway-KCFA, Dexter Washburn-KCFA, Maria da Silva-KCFA, Paul Uster-KCFA, Suzanne Shriner-KCFA, Bruce Corker-KCFA, Stefanie Delmont-KCFA (also as President of the Kona Farm Bureau), Page Trygstad-KCFA, Tom Greenwell representing the HCA,HCGA,KCC and Greenwell Farms, Gus Rouse of Kona Queen, Lily Kong-KCFA and Dr. Robert Hollingsworth-PBARC. All were in support of…
2011 KCFA Expo – January 28, 2011
4th Annual KCFA Expo. Photos of Dignitaries, KCFA Members and the crowd, followed at 3 pm by the KCFA Annual Meeting and Election of Officers. Photos appear in random order.
2011 KCFA Expo
Specifically for Small Farmers Friday, January 28, 2011 9:30 am -2:30 pm (Doors open at 9 am) Old Airport Pavilion-Makaeo Keynote Speaker: Hawaii Department of Agriculture Chairman, Mr. Russell Kokubun on The Agricultural Renaissance for Hawaii 1:30 – 2:30 pm Speaker Schedule: 10a-11a Dr. Skip Bittenbender, CTAHR and CBB Update (Held in room mauka of…
CBB Mitigation Meeting – January 11, 2011
Development of a CBB Mitigation Program for Kona Farms held at Yano Hall 1-4pm KCFA’s CBB Committee Meeting with Members from the HDOA and PBARC (Pacific Basin Agricultural Resource Center). Candid photos and one group photo before the meeting.
Quarantine Documents
from President Bruce Corker: For your information and review, below is a copy of an email and attachments (ed. note: at bottom of page) we received this week from Clayton Nagata of the Hawaii Department of Agriculture with information on the Coffee Berry Borer (CBB) green coffee quarantine for Kona. ———- Forwarded message ———- From:…
B. bassiana fungus
update 12/18/2010 by Melanie Bondera Thank you for all your feedback and input! We’ve sent the fungus off to several labs for identification. Farmers should go out and collect any b. bassiana fungus from their own farms before the harvest season ends and there are no more coffee cherries. Here’s my suggested collection procedure. Find…
RESOLUTION Requesting the Hawaii Legislature to Provide Emergency Funding to Mitigate Damage from Coffee Berry Borer (CBB) to Kona Coffee
WHEREAS, the recent identification of CBB on farms in the Kona coffee growing region presents new economic, management and marketing challenges for Kona coffee farmers; WHEREAS, CBB threatens to negatively impact Kona coffee production that annually brings millions of dollars (more than half of the coffee revenue for the entire State) into Hawaii in the…