2025 Greenhouse Training Online Rolls Out Two Courses for September
2025 Greenhouse Training Online – ‘Success with your Latino Workforce’ and ‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’. | UF/IFAS
‘Success with your Latino Workforce’ and ‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’, the next courses in the Greenhouse Training Online series from the University of Florida IFAS Extension (UF/IFAS), start on Sept. 8, 2025. Both are intermediate-level courses designed for those with some training or entry-level university experience.
‘Success with your Latino Workforce’ Course Topics
Course participants will learn:
- Basic concepts of communication and culture to apply to Latino staff.
- How Latino culture affects behavior and communication in the workplace.
- Simple horticultural Spanish through interactive oral quizzes.
- To analyze the social and cultural backgrounds of Latino migrants and immigrants.
‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’ Course Topics
Course participants will learn:
- Appropriate scouting and sampling techniques.
- Detection and diagnosis of common greenhouse and nursery diseases.
- Field-friendly diagnostic methods to identify common pathogens.
- How to identify diseases and differentiate between diseases and other issues.
‘Success with your Latino Workforce’ and ‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’ Schedule and Registration
The ‘Success with your Latino Workforce’ and ‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’ courses run from Sept. 8 to Oct. 3, 2025.
‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’ is available in English and Spanish, while ‘Success with your Latino Workforce’ is available only in English. All course material is completely online and available at any time of the day. They include pre-record videos, quizzes, and an interactive discussion board with each course’s teacher; Dr. Claudio Pasian, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University, for ‘Success with your Latino Workforce’, and Dr. Carrie Harmon, Director of the UF/IFAS Plant Diagnostic Center in Gainesville, FL and Co-Director of the National Plant Diagnostic Network, for ‘Field Diagnosis of Plant Diseases’. Two new modules are activated each week during the course, for a total of eight learning modules. Register online at http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/training/.
For more information, including discounts for registering multiple participants, email training staff at [email protected].
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