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Prof. Bh. Subramanyam's message for all those interested in
6th Heat Treatment Workshop and MB Alternatives
The Department of
Grain Science at Kansas State University is hosting a Sixth Heat
Treatment Workshop, May 13-15, 2009. Please mark the date
on your calendar. Tuesday, May 12, is essentially a travel
day for participants. The workshop will start with
registration at 8:00 am on May 13 and the
workshop will conclude by the afternoon of the 15.
Participants can make travel plan to leave Manhattan on 15
afternoon or the morning of 16. Because of the tough
financial situation we are all in, I have decided to charge a
nominal registration fee of $150 per person. The
registration fee was two times this amount for previous
workshops.
This workshop includes classroom
lectures on Methyl Bromide, heat treatment and
integrated management of stored product insects associated with
food/feed plants. A majority of lectures will cover the theory
and practice of heat treatment technology. Speakers and experts
from heat treatment service providers, food industry, pesticide
registrants, and scientists will share latest information on
methyl bromide and alternatives. Participants will gain first
hand practical knowledge about heat treatments, and will see a
practical heat treatment conducted in our state-of-the-art Hal
Ross Flour Mill.
We are pleased that Temp-Air has
agreed to conduct the heat treatment, and they have been
extremely supportive and conducted heat treatments for all five
workshops held at K-State. The workshop is sponsored by the
Propane Education
and Research
Council, Washington, DC. Without
their generous support it would have been impossible to host the
workshop.
Please share this information with your
colleagues or anyone interested in methyl bromide and methyl
bromide alternatives. If you would like to see information from
past workshops, please visit my website at:
www.ksre.ksu.edu/grsc_subi and go to
the workshops link. In the next few days I will be sending a
detailed agenda after confirming topics and speakers. If you
would like to contact me, my e-mail is:
sbhadrir@ksu.edu.
Thank you and look forward to
seeing you at the heat treatment workshop in May!
Dr. Bhadriraju Subramanyam
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