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10 CapitalPress.com Friday, January 4, 2019 2019 Northwest Ag Show Seminar Schedule * Wednesday, Jan. 16, Cascade Hall TIME/LOCATION TOPIC 9:30-10:15 a.m., McKenzie Room Current Trends in Agriculture — Learn more about the most pressing issues facing the local agricultural industry. PRESENTED BY 9:30-10:30 a.m., Willamette Room Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) — PPE violations are the most frequent type made when it comes to pesticide applications. Learn from the mistakes of others. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA — Garnet has been with Oregon OSHA for over 28 years. She was instrumental in helping create OR-OSHA’s Pesticide Emphasis Program and serves as Pesticide Coordinator. She has been a part of the NW Ag Show for over 10 years. 9:45-10:45 a.m., Santiam Room Agriculture Weather Forecast — Get the latest update on El Nino, the rest of Winter and a look at Spring and Summer. Philip Volker, Founder, ERF Company — Phil has a degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Oregon State University. He served 14 years as senior meteorologist at KOIN-TV, the CBS affiliate in Portland. He brings a scientist’s eye to the formidable task of forecasting weather in the Pacific Northwest. 10:30-11:30 a.m., McKenzie Room Wage, Hour & Civil Rights Laws — Learn how these laws protect employees and impact how you run your business. 10:30-11 a.m., Willamette Room Heat Stress & the Pesticide Applicator — Your PPE and the rush to get done spraying before it gets even hotter can put your health at risk. Learn how you can avoid a very preventable day. 11 a.m.-Noon, Santiam Room Conscious Decisions Mean Safer Work — Can you recall an in-the-moment decision that affected someone’s safety? This session deals with ways to retrain our brains to make conscious decisions that influence safety, time, money and resources. 11:15 a.m.-Noon, Willamette Room Pesticide Safety Gone Awry — There are a lot of rules out there. Investigations of previous claims offer multiple ways to learn from the mistakes of others. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA 1-2 p.m., Willamette Room The REVISED Worker Protection Standard — This course highlights the changes from the updated WPS that will affect your farming, nursery or forestry operations. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA 1:15-2:15 p.m., McKenzie Room Energy Trust of Oregon's Efficiency Upgrades Incentives — This session will focus on how to save energy, which technologies make sense, and if you are eligible for Energy Trust incentives. Ulrike Mengelberg, Cascade Energy, Inc. & Doug Oppedal, Evergreen Consulting — Ulrike started at Bonneville Power Administration working on agriculture supply curves. She currently works for the Energy Trust of Oregon’s Streamlined Industrial Program Agriculture offering. 1:30-2:30 p.m., Santiam Room Oregon Hazelnut Trends & Opportunities — Brought to you by Hazelnut Growers of Oregon. Patrick Gabrish, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hazelnut Growers of Oregon — Patrick is a native Oregonian who has spent his career building brands across multiple channels in the consumer-packaged goods industry. He applied his entrepreneurial skills to increase the reach of mainstream consumer products into new areas of distribution. He is excited to work locally to build markets for hazelnut products. 2-2:30 p.m., Willamette Room Navigating Oregon’s Application Exclusion Zone* — The Oregon-specific AEZ is based on EPA’s updated Worker Protection Standard. Learn the background of AEZ and how it impacts you. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA 2:30-3:30 p.m., McKenzie Room Interest Rates: Outlook & Impacts on Rural America — Brought to you by Harvest Capital Company. 2:30-3:15 p.m., Willamette Room Preventing Pesticide Spills — Pesticide spills are troubling. Learn how you can keep thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars tucked in YOUR accounts. 2:45-3:45 p.m., Santiam Room Getting New Employees On Board For Safety — The session will provide you with best practices and easy-to-use tools to make your onboarding process successful. 3:30-4:15 p.m., Willamette Room Pesticide Storage — This course will identify the common pitfalls others have experienced through the inspection process as well as pictures that demonstrate what "right" looks like. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA 4:15-4:45 p.m., Willamette Room Pesticide Shorts — A series of short topics ranging from the annual outcome of Oregon OSHA's Pesticide Emphasis Program to getting answers to your most pressing Oregon OSHA questions. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA Carl Sampson, Managing Editor, Capital Press — Carl has been managing editor of Capital Press for 16 years. Before that, he and his wife had a small farm. He has been involved in journalism more than 40 years as an editor and reporter at newspapers in Oregon, Alaska and Minnesota. Khadija Mostafa, a Health Compliance Officer for Oregon OSHA, conducts inspections in all types of workplaces to ensure that employees have access to safe and healthy workplaces. Kristin Bremer Moore, Partner, Tonkon Torp LLP — Kristin is Chair of Tonkon Torp's Labor & Employment Practice Group. She exclusively represents employers from claims of discrimination, retaliation, wrongful discharge, and other labor and employment matters. She was recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America for Litigation, Labor & Employment in 2018. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA Chelsea Imdieke, Safety Consultant, SAIF Corporation — Chelsea holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Oregon State University and a minor in leadership from OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences. Chelsea lives on a sheep and shiitake mushroom farm and works on the safety services team, consulting primarily with small businesses around the state. Doug has worked more than 30 years in the electrical and lighting field in a variety of roles. He currently works as a program manager and senior lighting specialist providing clients with technology training, efficiency measure research and site consultations. Robert Owens, Director of Fixed Income Strategy, Farmer Mac — Robert began his career at Farmer Mac in 2004. His role is to develop funding and hedging strategies. His previous experience includes trading short- and long-term debt, rate locking and securitizing agricultural mortgages. He received his MBA from the University of Maryland and is a licensed CPA in Virginia. Garnet Cooke & Khadija Mostafa, Oregon OHSA Eric Lloyd, Safety Consultant, Risk Management Resources — Eric's exposure to safety and agriculture began at an early age when he spent summers working on the family ranch in Idaho. Eric earned a degree in criminal justice from Western Oregon University and served in law enforcement for several years until being drawn back to his roots and joining the family business in 2016. *Seminars/Speakers schedule subject to change. Visit NorthwestAgShow.com for the latest updates.
