{"id":18888,"date":"2019-08-02T08:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=18888"},"modified":"2019-08-02T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:27:14","slug":"cdfa-in-hawaii-secretary-ross-and-washington-ag-director-tour-medfly-program-breeding-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/cdfa-in-hawaii-secretary-ross-and-washington-ag-director-tour-medfly-program-breeding-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"CDFA in Hawaii &#8211; Secretary Ross and Washington Ag director tour Medfly program breeding facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KBR-at-Hawaii-w-group-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KBR-at-Hawaii-w-group-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KBR-at-Hawaii-w-group-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KBR-at-Hawaii-w-group-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>CDFA secretary Karen Ross along with Washington director of agriculture Derek Sandison (center) recently toured CDFA&#8217;s Mediterranean fruit fly rearing facility in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu.  With them, from left, are CDFA employees Aaron Frank, Song So and Rosalie Nelson. Secretary Ross and Director Sandison were in Hawaii for a meeting of WASDA, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasda.org\/organizations\/western-association-of-state-departments-of-agriculture\"><strong>Western Association of State Departments of Agriculture<\/strong><\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1918.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1918.jpg 486w, https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_1918-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption>The program breeds and sterilizes Medflies and transports them to Southern California, where they are released aerially as an exclusionary measure to prevent Medfly infestations. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/plant\/PDEP\/prpinfo\/\"><strong>Preventive Release Program<\/strong><\/a>, a joint project with the USDA, is an example of the innovative biological solutions that help make integrated pest management a successful approach.     <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>CDFA in Hawaii - Secretary Ross and Washington Ag director tour Medfly program breeding facility - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/cdfa-in-hawaii-secretary-ross-and-washington-ag-director-tour-medfly-program-breeding-facility\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CDFA in Hawaii - Secretary Ross and Washington Ag director tour Medfly program breeding facility - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/cdfa-in-hawaii-secretary-ross-and-washington-ag-director-tour-medfly-program-breeding-facility\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-02T15:27:06+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-08-02T15:27:14+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/KBR-at-Hawaii-w-group.jpeg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"4032\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"3024\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Office of Public Affairs\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Office of Public Affairs\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/cdfa-in-hawaii-secretary-ross-and-washington-ag-director-tour-medfly-program-breeding-facility\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/cdfa-in-hawaii-secretary-ross-and-washington-ag-director-tour-medfly-program-breeding-facility\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Office of Public Affairs\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/abce383c670223ef4f55f3f21f102e76\"},\"headline\":\"CDFA in Hawaii &#8211; 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