University of Florida Greenhouse Training Online courses: New! Practical Disease Management Starts November 11!

If you already have taken Field Diagnosis of Plant Disease or know how to identify diseases but have doubts on your best choices for management, Practical Disease Management is the course for you! This is the last course for 2024 of the award-winning Greenhouse Online Training courses offered by the University of Florida IFAS Extension. This is an intermediate course that teaches to prevent disease by learning how disease develop and spread, understand basic organic and conventional management, and safely apply and handle fungicides. This course is taught in English and Spanish. 

Practical Disease Management is taught by Dr. Carrie Harmon, Director of the UF/IFAS Plant Diagnostic Center in Gainesville, FL and Co-Director of the National Plant Diagnostic Network. This brand-new course expands on the past Disease Management course, which was described as “very dynamic, which makes it easy to understand and apply to our day-to-day work in the greenhouse.” This course is part of the Plant Health Professional Certificate.

The course runs from November 11 to December 13, 2024. The cost is $US275 per participant, with a 20% discount if you register 5 or more. All course material is completely online and available at any time of the day, and includes pre-recorded videos, an interactive discussion board with PhD professors, and quizzes. Two new modules are activated each week during the course, for a total of 8 learning modules. Instruction is at your own pace and time within the 4 weeks of the course, with a typical time commitment of about 4 hours per week. Click here to register (http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/training/).

For more information, go to http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/training/, or contact Greenhouse Training, Environmental Horticulture, University of Florida, USA, Email: greenhousetraining@ifas.ufl.edu.