Pesticide Continuing Education
The Iowa Pesticide Act provides two options for renewing commercial pesticide applicator certification. Commercial and public applicators may choose to renew their certification by testing once every three years or by attending approved instructional training each year.
Recertification by training requires participation in two hours of approved instructional training each year, in each category in which an applicator is certified. Some programs may be approved for more than one category and simultaneous credit hours are possible. Applicators will not be allowed to make up hours that they missed in a previous year, nor will they be allowed to carry forward excess credit hours.
Here are the eligible classes that were offered at the 2009 STSC:
"Pest Management" workshops at the 2009 Shade Tree Short Course
| A-2 | Handling Hosta Diseases (Gleason) |
| A-4 or C-4 | Recognizing and Managing Tree-related Risk in Community Forests(Laverne) |
| A-5 or D-3 | Diagnosing Health Problems of Woody Plants (Jesse, Iriarte, and Vitosh) |
| B-3 | Emerald Ash Borer: Where Are We Today and What's the Crystal Ball Say for Tomorrow (Pruisner) |
| C-5 | Growing Pains in Nursery Production (Krull) |
| E-6 or F-6 | Loss of Tree Canopy Due to Emerald Ash Borer: An Opportunity to Study the Effect of Trees on Energy Use (Laverne) |
| F-4 or G-3 | Bur Oak Blight: An Unfriendly Endophyte Goes Bad (Harrington) |
| F-7 or G-6 | Common Caterpillar Pests of Iowa Trees (Lewis) |
