Speaker: Melanie Stock, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Utah State University; Director, Small Farms Lab
Moderator: Gabrielle LaTora, University of Georgia
Recorded: July 23, 2026, Cut Flower Symposium, segment 06 of 08
Runtime: 29:23.7
Audience: Commercial and beginning cut flower growers, florists, county agents
Scaling Note
This guide is sized to a 29-minute segment. It carries what an agent needs to schedule and frame a viewing: credit status, runtime, audience fit, the four segment breaks, and the two caveats. Full content is in the archive summary and the website version, and this file does not repeat them.
CEU Status
CEU Categories: [PENDING]
Credit was offered at the live symposium and the categories were never supplied to the archive. Do not advertise a category for this recording until the symposium organizers confirm it. The symposium back-fills all eight segments in one pass once the categories arrive.
Audience Fit
The segment is written for growers, not for licensed applicators. No pesticide is named and no application is described, so nothing here supports a pesticide category on its own merits. It fits soil management, irrigation, and season extension programming.
Stock speaks from a semi-arid state at five thousand feet and says so directly, comparing Logan, Utah with Georgia in the first three minutes. Agents should keep that framing when they introduce it: the water restrictions and snow melt supply she describes are Utah conditions, while the soil, mulch, and shade findings transfer.
Viewing Instructions
Total runtime is 29:23.7, which fits a single sitting. If the recording is split across a program, these are the four natural breaks:
| Segment | Time | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0:00 to 4:22 | Introduction, agenda, Utah and Georgia compared |
| 2 | 4:22 to 16:13 | Organic matter, compost and manure analysis, cover crops, tillage |
| 3 | 16:13 to 21:52 | Plastic and natural mulches, the wool trials |
| 4 | 21:52 to 29:23 | Irrigation timing, water phases, high tunnels, shade, Q&A |
The full 21-marker chapter list is in the archive summary and the website version.
Two Caveats for Agents
- The dahlia answer is short and absolute. Stock looked for ways to save water on dahlia and reported none. Growers who ask will get “they need a lot of water” and nothing further from this recording.
- Wool mulch does not till in. In the Q&A, Stock said wool does not lend itself to tillage and that incorporating what remains after a season would be problematic. She placed it in perennial or no-till situations, and noted it breaks down slower in Utah than it would in Georgia. An agent recommending wool should carry that limit with it.
Derived for UGA Center for Urban Agriculture / GTBOP Archives
Source: Stage 2 Archive Package – GTBOP_Archive_Summary_2026-07-23_StockDroughtAndHeat.md