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The Annual Desert Ag Conference is a homecoming of sorts for Arizona pest control advisors, crop consultants, growers, and many others involved in desert agriculture in the Grand Canyon State.About 230 folks gathered for this year's event which covered a wide array of topics, including the slow and expensive route to bring a pesticide to market, discussed by research scientist Jesse Richardson of Dow AgroSciences.

Cary Blake 1, Editor

October 21, 2016

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The annual Desert Ag Conference is a homecoming of sorts for Arizona pest control advisors, crop consultants, growers, and others involved in desert agriculture in the Grand Canyon State. 

About 230 folks gathered for this year's event, held in Chandler, heard discussions on a wide array of pesticide related topics. You can read the Western Farm Press article from the conference on why it takes so much time and expense today to bring a new pesticide to market, featuring comments from research scientist Jesse Richardson of Dow AgroSciences.

Enjoy these photos from the event courtesy of Western Farm Press and www.westernfarmpress.com.

About the Author(s)

Cary Blake 1

Editor, Western Farm Press

Cary Blake, associate editor with Western Farm Press, has 32 years experience as an agricultural journalist. Blake covered Midwest agriculture for 25 years on a statewide farm radio network and through television stories that blanketed the nation.
 
Blake traveled West in 2003. Today he reports on production agriculture in California and Arizona.
 
Blake is a native Mississippian, graduate of Mississippi State University, and a former Christmas tree grower.

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