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8:00 am - 8:30 am
Registration  (Please note this change from previous years:  Doors open at 8 am)
8:30 am - 8:40 am
​Welcome
Beate Popkin, ​CKOTA President
8:40 am - 9:40 am
​Keynote Address:  
Parklands of Floyds Fork: A Park of Endless Possibilities
Tom Smarr, Director of Horticulture
Twenty-First Century Parks, Louisville
9:40 am - 10:45 am
Urban Tree Care for a Sustainable Planet
Chris Carlson, Professor of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
Kent State University, Ohio
10:25 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break & Trade Show
10:45 am - 11:30 am
Sustainable Turf and Landscape Management in Public Areas
Aaron Boggs, Director of Grounds Maintenance
University of Louisville
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Plant Disease Update – Recent Trends in the UK Diagnostic Lab
Julie Beale 
Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch Break & Trade Show
1:10 am - 2:15 pm
The Future of Urban Parks:
The Challenges of Managing Modern Urban Parks

Tom Smarr
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
The Benefits of Ecological Landscaping along Streams, Ponds and Lakes
Russ Turpin, Senior Environmental Specialist
EcoGro, Lexington
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
​Coffee Break & Trade Show
3:20 pm - 3:45 pm
Developing Monarch Butterfly Conservation Methodsfor Multipurpose Landscapes
Adam Baker, Graduate Student
​Entomology, University of Kentucky
3:45 am - 4:30 pm
Insecticide Use in the Landscape: Choices and Implications
Lee Townsend, Professor of Entomology
​University of Kentucky
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CKOTA Horticulture Conference  -- Thursday, February 13, 2020 --  8:15 am – 4:40 pm

Fayette County Cooperative Extension Office
 1140 Harry Sykes Way      
​Lexington, Kentucky 40504
CKOTA Mission Statement
​The purpose of the Central Kentucky Ornamental and Turf Association is to promote horticultural improvement, professionalism and networking; to encourage the further study of horticultural, arboricultural, and turfgrass sciences; and to analyze and disseminate information.
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