Expert Witness 521986
Agriculture
California
Bachelor, University of California-Davis
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Agricultural consulting, crop production, and fertigation management define his work as an expert witness, supported by more than 35 years of experience in agriculture. His expertise includes design, calibration, and service of proportional-to-flow fertigation systems in nursery, greenhouse, intensive agricultural production, and broad-acre blueberry production venues. He has provided design guidance for proportional-to-flow fertigation installations in domestic and international blueberry production settings and interprets soil, irrigation water, and leaf tissue analytical data to provide specific written recommendations for grower clients. His crop experience includes almonds, citrus, blueberry, grapes, avocado, raspberries, blackberries, nursery stock production, cut flower production, and other specialty crop venues. He has ample experience in crop nutrition, soil fertility management, irrigation water chemistry, dry granular and fluid commercial fertilizer products, soil amendments, plant propagation, rootstock propagation, and ground water considerations. His work includes applying proportional-to-flow fertigation management strategies across avocado, blueberry, citrus, grapes, and cut flower production to improve fertilizer use efficiency, crop quality, productivity, and potential ground water protection.
His background includes founding and managing agricultural laboratory operations, supervising personnel, managing budgets and payroll, developing sales strategies, implementing analytical service programs, and establishing agricultural consulting services for specialty crop growers. He has developed constant liquid feed fertigation strategies for cut flower producers, fruit growers, and vineyard growers, as well as growth trials to confirm treatment efficacy for grower benefit. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Fruit Science and business administration coursework in senior management. He is a Certified Crop Advisor through the American Society of Agronomy, with additional professional involvement in the California Association of Pest Control Advisers and California Blueberry Growers Association.
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Degree Type
Bachelor
Field of Study
Business Administration
Institution
Universidad de los Andes
Degree Type
Bachelor
Field of Study
Pomology
Institution
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
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Certification
Certification / License
Certified Crop Advisor (CCA)
Issuing Authority
American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
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Certification
Certification / License
California Association of Pest Control Advisors (CAPCA)
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California Association of Pest Control Advisors (CAPCA)
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Sprinklers and irrigation
Soil Chemistry
Groundwater
Agricultural Equipment