Location: Stonyvale Farm (Fogler’s Dairy), Exeter, Maine. For more information, contact: Alice Begin, 207-990-9568, alice.begin@me.usda.gov. 2 credits

Location: Northeast Agricultural Sales, Detroit. Subjects include using farm resources to improve crop production, Bt corn, using low-rate liquid fertilizer, "must use only" situations for insecticides. For more information and directions, contact: Aaron Bell, 207-933-3017, meparker3@verizon.net. 1 credit

Location: Hemond’s Farm, Minot. Subjects include using farm resources to improve crop production, Bt corn, using low-rate liquid fertilizer, "must use only" situations for insecticides. For more information and directions, contact: Aaron Bell, 207-933-3017, meparker3@verizon.net. 1 credit

Location: Good Will-Hinckley School Visitor Center, Route 201, Hinckley, Maine. Invasive plant identification and control workshop sponsored by the Maine Forest Service, in cooperation with the Good-Will Hinckley School, USDA Forest Service, and the Maine Nature Conservancy. For more information and to preregister (required), contact: Keith Kanoti, 207-287-2428, keith.kanoit@maine.gov. 3 credits

Location: Sturbridge Host Hotel, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Details for using biological control for thrips aphids, fungus gnats, and spider mites. Complete program and registration information: http://www.umass.edu/umext/floriculture/upcomingeventsarchive/08biocontrolprog.htm 4 credits

Location: Ahern Building, Sullivan County Farm, Unity, New Hampshire. Sponsored by NH Division of Forests & Lands, USDA Forest Service, NH Invasive Plant Committee, and UNH Cooperative Extension. for more information, contact: Chuck Hersey, 603-863-9200, chuck.hersey@unh.edu. 3 credits

Location: Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Put IPM practices to work efficiently. For more information, contact: UMass Extension Landscape, Nursery, & Urban Forestry Program at 413-545-0895, weeks@umext.umass.edu. Program details and registration information [PDF]: http://www.umassgreeninfo.org/programs/temp/scouting_08.pdf 2 credits

Location: UMass Campus Center, Amherst, Massachusetts. Turf faculty at UMass Amherst are conducting research that addresses not only agronomic and pest management concerns, but also issues of environmental significance. Details of projects being conducted at the University, in the field, and on golf courses in the Northeast. For more information, contact: UMass Extension Turf Program at 508-892-0382, mowen@umext.umass.edu. 6 credits

Location: Doubletree Inn (formerly Sheraton Milford and Radisson Milford), 11 Beaver Street, Milford, Massachusetts (at exit 19 off Route 495). Comprehensive 11-day certificate short course for Green Industry professionals taught by UMass Extension Specialists and University of Massachusetts faculty. Course designed for landscapers, lawn care specialists, arborists, and other horticultural practitioners wishing to gain an understanding of horticultural fundamentals and strategies and their relation to environmental quality. Complete program details and registration information: http://www.umassgreeninfo.org/programs/green_school.html 18 credits

Throughout 2008

The Industrial Fumigant Company Seminars. Locations all over the US. Information and registration details at: The Industrial Fumigant Company or contact Paul Laughlin at 800-477-4432 or customerservice@indfumco.com. Many credits

Food Processing & Fumigation

Throughout 2008

U-Mass Green School, Conferences and Workshop Calendar

Turf, Outdoor & Indoor Ornamental

If you cannot attend any of above programs, you can earn up to two credits per recertification period for Private and Commercial Operator Applicators and up to three for Commercial Masters by renting and viewing videotapes.

Approved tapes are available from the Penobscot County Soil and Water Conservation District office in Bangor. To earn credit you must request the quiz for recertification when renting the tape; complete the quiz and return it to the Board of Pesticides Control, 28 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0028.

You must score at least 80% on the quiz to receive credit. The quizzes are multiple choice and true/false questions. If you watch the entire video, the quiz should be easy to complete. One credit is given for each hour of video tape viewed.

To rent the tapes contact the Farm Video Center at Penobscot County SWCD at 207-990-3676 (press #3 after the initial recording to get the SWCD). You can also get more information on their Web site.