Management Training
Resume:
Mark Trent
Mark Trent
El Centro, CA 92250
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EXPERIENCE
Job Title: Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor, 2008 - 2010
Location: Imperial County Cooperative Extension
Address: 1050 East Holton Road, El Cento, CA 92243
Supervisor: Eric Natwick
Work Schedule: 40 + hours per week
Salary: $55,000 annual
Responsibilities:
Develop and implement a program for extending knowledge, applied
research and creative activity, university and public service, while maintaining
professional competence and insuring that protected groups are served
Identify production problems in individual commercial fields for growers, pest
control advisors and other agricultural industry personnel by visiting the fields
or by examining samples brought in by clientele
Plan, organize and implement a vegetable crops education and applied
research program in Imperial County
Provide knowledge and expertise to a dynamic and economically diverse
industry that employs thousands of people throughout Imperial County
Implement an active research and education program to address issues of
major concern to vegetable production such as:
Food safety issues pertaining to water and soil ecology of food borne
human pathogens.
Labor issues such as availability of documented labor, worker
safety, and harvest mechanization
Crop production cost guidelines and vegetable crop marketing
Promotion and development of new vegetable crops and variety
improvement
Cropping systems addressing issues of rotating from field crops
under reduced tillage and problems of allelopathy and pest problems
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EXPERIENCE (continued)
Job Title: W eather Information System Coordinator, 2007 - 2008
Location: Michigan State University, Department of Entomology
Address: 243 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, Ml 48824
Supervisor: Mike Brewer
Work Schedule: 40 + hours per week
Salary: $52,500 annual
Responsibilities:
Coordinate industry work groups to provide direction on product
development and implementation
Coordinate scientific efforts among various University and private
researchers to develop new weather-based products for implementation
on the weather information system
Coordinate staff including 6 designated professionals and various
student employees
Develop educational curricula, programs, and creative novel
techniques to deliver research based education and training regarding
the Enviro-weather information system - www.enviroweather.msu.edu
Job Title: Area Extension Educator 2005 - 2007
Location: W ashington State University Extension
Address: PO Box 37, Ephrata, WA 98823
Supervisor: Christy Price
Work Schedule: 40 + hours per week
Salary: $48,000 annual
Responsibilities:
Develop educational curricula, programs, field trials and creative novel
techniques to deliver research based education and training to vegetable
and vegetable seed producers
Solicit, train, and supervise volunteers
Conduct informal and formal program need/opportunity assessments
Develop programs that bring University expertise and experience to
issues that affect vegetable/vegetable seed production in the Columbia
Basin of Washington State
Acquire resources to support the development of these programs
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EXPERIENCE (continued)
Job Title: Extension Program Associate Plant Pathology, 2003 - 2005
Location: University of Arkansas Extension, Department of Plant Pathology
Address: 2601 Young Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72701
Supervisor: Dr. Rick Cartwright Salary: $35,000 annual
Responsibilities:
Develop and implement a foliar disease screening program for over three
hundred soybean cultivars and advanced breeding lines
Develop and carry out protocols for field screens.
Experimental design, acquiring seed, planting, plot management,
disease assessments, harvest
Coordinate with various research stations and cooperative growers to
implement field research trials
Supervise lab and field personal
Collect, compile, and analyze data using ARM, SAS and Microsoft
Excel
Assign resistance ratings
Publish findings in extension publications, websites, and professional
journals
Develop and implement training for selection of disease resistant soybean
varieties and management strategies to control soybean rust.
Collaborate with the University Plant Pathology Working Group to
develop curriculum aimed at enabling the producer to make research-
based disease management decisions.
Implement training programs
County agent training
Consultant training
Pesticide applicator training
Agriculture producer training
Job Title: Extension Senior Research Specialist, 2000 - 2003
Location: Oklahoma State University, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Address: 127 Noble Research Center, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
Supervisor: Dr. John Damicone
Salary: $21,000 annual
Responsibilities:
Plan, organize, and implement vegetable disease studies
Supervise lab and field personal
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EXPERIENCE (continued)
Diagnose field disease problems for Oklahoma vegetable producers
Carry out field, greenhouse, and laboratory treatment protocols
Disease assessments
Collect, compile, and analyze data using SAS and Microsoft Excel
Job Title: Carpenter, 1997 - 1999
Location: Structural Systems Incorporated, Fort Smith, Arkansas
Responsibilities:
Finish Carpentry
Job Title: Peanut and Cattle Producer, 1981 - 1996 (part time 1988 - 1991)
Location: Trent Farms
Address: Caney, Oklahoma
Responsibilities:
Owner and operator
Research cooperator - OSU
Implement all cultural practices involving production of peanuts on a
90-acre irrigated peanut farm
Ran a 150 head cow-calf operation
Manage all business and financial matters
Oklahoma State University
Job Title: IPM Crop Advisor, 1986 - 1989 (part time)
Responsibilities:
Conduct field inspections on ten different farms
Evaluate and respond to farmers request for crop management input
Assess insect, weed and disease impact levels
Recommend management programs for insect, weed, and disease
problems
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Elementary School Teacher 1986 - 1991: Caney Public School,
Caney, OK
Middle School Teacher 1979 - 1980: Atoka Public School, Atoka,
OK
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PUBLICATIONS
Thesis
Trent, M.A., Etiology and Management of Spinach White Rust, in Entomology and Plant
Pathology. 2004, Oklahoma State University: Stillwater. p. 80.
Professional Journal
Trent, M., K. Hurst, C. Carpenter, J. Rupe, T.L Kirkpatrick, and R.D. Cartwright. 2003.
Reactions of selected MG IV soybean cultivars to foliar diseases in Arkansas. 2003.
Biological and Cultural Tests: V 19.
Damicone, J.P., B.A. Kahn, and M.A Trent. 2002. Alternatives to benomyl for
management ofCercospora leaf spot of turnip greens. Phytopathology 92: S149.
Zhao, Y.F., J.P. Damicone, M.A. Trent, and C. L. Bender. 2002. Reaction ofcrucifer
germplasm to bacterial pathogens. Phytopathology 92:S91.
Damicone, J.P. and M.A. Trent. 2002. Evaluation of fungicides for control of
watermelon anthracnose, 2001. Fungicide and Nematicide Tests: V 57.
Damicone, J.P. and M.A. Trent. 2002. Evaluation of spray programs for control of bacterial
and Cercospora leaf spots of turnip greens, 2001. Fungicide and Nematicide Tests: V 57.
Damicone, J.P. and M.A. Trent. 2002. Evaluation of fungicides for control of spinach white
rust. 2001. Fungicide and Nematicide Tests V 57.
Damicone, J.P., M.A. Trent, and D.B. Bostian. 2001. Responses of bell pepper
cultivars to spray programs for control of bacterial spot, 2000. Fungicide and
Nematicide Tests 2001: V 32.
Damicone, J.P., M.A. Trent, and D.B. Bostian. 2001. Evaluation of spray programs for
control of spinach white rust, 2000: Fungicide and Nematicide Tests 2001: V 86.
Damicone, J.P., O Hawkins, J. Motes, and M. Trent. 2000. Races of Xanthomonas
campestris pv. vesicatoria from pepper in Oklahoma. Phytopathology 90:S17.
Selected State Extension Publications
Enviro-weather Report 2007. http://www.enviroweather.msu.edu/news/Enviro-
weatherReport2007.pdf.
MSU CAT Alerts. 2007 Contributed 8 articles, http://www.ipm.msu.edu/aboutcat.htm
Trent, M.A. 2006 Columbia Basin Onion Varietal Demonstration Results. WSU
Grant/Adams Extension 05-09-03
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Selected State Extension Publications (Continued)
Trent, M.A. 2005 Columbia Basin Onion Varietal Demonstration Results. WSU
Grant/Adams Extension 05-09-02
Trent, MA, Cartwright, R.D. 2005. Beware of Bacterial Diseases When Scouting
for Asian Soybean Rust Early in the Season. University of Arkansas Extension
Web Publication, http://www.aragriculture.org/
Coker, C., Hurst, K., Kirkpatrick, T.L., Rupe, J., Tingle, C., and Trent, M. 2004.
Asian Soybean Rust Fact Sheet. University of Arkansas Extension: FSA7531-PD-
4-05N
Mark Trent, Kim Hurst, Terry Kirkpatrick, and Rick Cartwright. 2004. Evaluation of
71 Early MG IV Soybean Cultivars for Reaction to Frogeye Leaf Spot, Brown Spot,
and Cercospora Leaf Blight. University of Arkansas Extension Web Publication
http://comp.uark.edu/~avrtest/index.php?sb&disease&2004, Click on Final
Disease Evaluation 04.xls
Mark Trent, Kim Hurst, Terry Kirkpatrick, and Rick Cartwright 2004. Evaluation of
78 Late MG IV Soybean Cultivars for Reaction to Frogeye Leaf Spot, Brown Spot,
Cercospora Leaf Blight, and Sudden Death Syndrome. University of Arkansas
Extension Web Publication
http://comp.uark.edu/~avrtest/index.php?sb&disease&2Q04, Click on Final Disease
Evaluation 04.xls
Mark Trent, Kim Hurst, Terry Kirkpatrick, and Rick Cartwright. 2004. Evaluation of
92 Early MG V Soybean Cultivars for Reaction to Frogeye Leaf Spot, Brown Spot,
Cercospora Leaf Blight, and Sudden Death Syndrome. University of Arkansas
Extension Web Publication
http://comp.uark.edu/~avrtest/index.php?sb&disease&2004, Click on Final
Disease Evaluation 04.xls
Mark Trent, Kim Hurst, Terry Kirkpatrick, and Rick Cartwright. 2004. Evaluation of
79 Late MG V Soybean Cultivars for Reaction to Frogeye Leaf Spot, Cercospora
Leaf Blight and Sudden Death Syndrome. University of Arkansas Extension Web
Publication http://comp.uark.edu/-avrtest/index.php?sb&disease&2004, Click on
Final Disease Evaluation 04.xls
Local Extension Publications
AgBriefs Newsletter 2008 -2009 Imperial County Cooperative Extension;
Contributed 14 articles. Audience: 1500+ farmers and crop advisors.
Agri-Focus Newsletter 2005 - 2006. Grant/Adams Area Extension; Contributed 15
articles. Audience: 1100+ farmers and ranchers.
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Selected presentations
Event and
Date and
Title
Location
Attendance
Vegetable Crops
Food Safety Concerns 12/09/200
Continuing Conference
for Imperial County: 9 53
UC Davis, Davis, CA
Research Update
11/12/200 Desert Valleys
Conducting On-Farm Research
9 75 CAPCA El Centre,
CA
Update on E. coli and Other 11/22/200 Desert Crops
Human Pathogens 8 110 Workshop Holtville,
Concerning Leafy Vegetable CA
Producers
Using Enviro-weather to 05/10/200 Spring Fruit Growers
Schedule Fungicide 7 95 Meeting Fruitport, Ml
Applications for Apple Scab
Web-based Tools for Juice Southwest Hort Annual Field
06/14/200
Grape Production Day Benton Harbor, Ml
7 70
PNVA Annual
11/16/200
Onion Cultivar Trial Update-
Conference Pasco,
5 120
2005
Washington
PNVA Annual
Utilizing the Internet for 11/16/200
Conference Pasco,
Information on Vegetable 5 80
Washington
Disease Management
Jan - April
11 Soybean Rust First Various locations across
2005 500
Detector Training Arkansas
Workshops
EDUCATION
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK
M.S. - 2004 Plant Pathology
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK
M.S.E. - 1989 Public School Administration
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK
B.S. - 1979 Elementary Education
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Selected Professional Training
Consensus Building - 2009
University of California - Davis, CA
Grantsmanship Workshop - 2007
Michigan State University
Designing Culturally Competent Programming - 2006
Washington State University - Pullman, WA
Grant Proposal Workshop - 2004
The Grant Institute - Los Angeles, CA
REFERENCES
Dr. Trevor Suslow, PhD
Associate Extension Specialist
University of California, Davis
103 Mann Lab
Davis California 95616
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Dr. Rob Atwill, DVM, MPVM, PhD
Acting Professor, Veterinarian in Agricultural Exp. Station
School of Veterinary Medicine
Interim Director, Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
University of California, Davis
1114 Tupper Hall
Davis, CA 95616
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Eric Natwick
Entomology Farm Advisor
University of California Cooperative Extension
1050 East Holton Road
Holtville, CA 92250
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