{"id":126225,"date":"2025-03-11T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/date-production-workshop-set-for-april-23-in-palm-desert-food-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:02:12","slug":"date-production-workshop-set-for-april-23-in-palm-desert-food-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=126225","title":{"rendered":"Date production workshop set for April 23 in Palm Desert &#8211; Food Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/food\/\/blogfiles\/111716_original.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"postphoto\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"An orchard of date palms under a blue sky is reflected in the water between the rows of trees.\" style=\"text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/food\/blogfiles\/111716.jpg\" alt=\"An orchard of date palms under a blue sky is reflected in the water between the rows of trees.\" width=\"650\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dates are an important crop in the low-desert region.  Photo by Ali Montazar<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><em>Scientists to present date research on irrigation, nutrients, disease, pests and regulations<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The 2025\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucanr.edu\/datepalm2025\">California Date Palm Workshop<\/a> will be held on April\u00a023 in Palm Desert at the UC Riverside Palm Desert Center. Anyone who is interested in growing dates is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This workshop brings together researchers, growers and stakeholders to discuss recent research data on the \u2018state of the date&#8217; crop in California,\u201d said workshop organizer Ali Montazar, UC Cooperative Extension irrigation and water management advisor for Imperial, Riverside and San Diego counties.<\/p>\n<p>The international date research workshop runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Scientists will share the latest research and information on various aspects of date production, including irrigation and nutrient management, disease and pest management, and laws and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelouahhab Zaid, secretary general of the Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, will speak about the development of date palm cultivation regionally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Salomon-Torres, research professor at Universidad Estatal de Sonora San Luis\u00a0R\u00edo Colorado, will discuss the status of the date palm industry in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Montazar will discuss irrigation management. Mark Hoddle, UC Cooperative Extension biological control specialist based at UC Riverside, will give a presentation on South American palm weevil in California. Spider mites, date nutrition and the\u00a0aspergillus\u00a0species causing black mold of dates are among other topics that will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also will have a grower panel discussion on the concerns and the needs of the California date industry,\u201d Montazar said. \u201cThis event is such a great opportunity to showcase how impactful date palm production and agriculture is in the low-desert region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participation is free, but registration is requested at <a href=\"https:\/\/ucanr.edu\/datepalm2025\">https:\/\/ucanr.edu\/datepalm2025<\/a>. Onsite registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at the UCR Palm Desert Center at 75080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Ali Montazar at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/blogcore\/mailto:amontazar@ucanr.edu\">amontazar@ucanr.edu<\/a> or Kristy Kneiding at <a href=\"http:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/blogcore\/mailto:kkneiding@datesaregreat.com\">kkneiding@datesaregreat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\/h3&gt;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dates are an important crop in the low-desert region. Photo by Ali Montazar Scientists to present date research on irrigation, nutrients, disease, pests and regulations The 2025\u00a0California Date Palm Workshop will be held on April\u00a023 in Palm Desert at the UC Riverside Palm Desert Center. Anyone who is interested in growing dates is welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[38333,4759,3767,1355,14340,3102,13201,2074,597,16533,809,1671,10166,348,11239,4952],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-126225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-ali-montazar","tag-april","tag-blog","tag-date","tag-dates","tag-desert","tag-diet","tag-food","tag-health","tag-obesity","tag-organic","tag-palm","tag-production","tag-set","tag-sustainable","tag-workshop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Date production workshop set for April 23 in Palm Desert - Food Blog - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=126225\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Date production workshop set for April 23 in Palm Desert - Food Blog - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 Dates are an important crop in the low-desert region. 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