Wednesday, December 16

Trade Show, 8am-2pm & 4pm-6pm

Morning Program

9:30 –12:00 5 Concurrent Sessions

Blueberry I
Location: Armory
Moderator: Sonia Schloemann
Pesticide credits: 2.0, CCA credits: 0.5 crop, 1.5 pest

  • 9:30 Integrated Management of Insect Pests in Blueberry
    Dr. Alan Eaton, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
  • 10:00 Integrated Blueberry Disease Management
    Frank Caruso, University of Massachusetts
  • 10:30 Integrated Blueberry Weed Management Principles and Practices
    Dr. Rich Bonanno, University of Massachusetts Cooperative Extension
  • 11:00 Post Harvest Handling of Blueberries - a grower's perspective
    Gene Kosinski, Kosinski Farms
  • 11:30 Pollination Issues in Blueberry Production
    Sonia Schloemann, University of Massachusetts

Efficiency on the Farm
Location: Frost/Hawthorne
Moderator: Vern Grubinger
CCA credits: 0.5 crop

  • 9:30 Optimizing Harvest Efficiency at Roxbury Farm
    Jean-Paul Courtens & Jody Bolluyt, Roxbury Farm
  • 10:00 An Efficient System for Winter CSA Crop Storage
    Andy Jones, Intervale Community Farm
  • 10:30 Increase the Efficiency of Your Greenhouse(s)
    John Bartok, University of Connecticut
  • 11:00 Creating a culture for labor efficiency
    Dale Riggs, Stonewall Hill Farm
  • 11:30 Paper-Pot System for Transplanting Efficiency
    John Hendrickson, Stone Circle Farm

Leafy Greens
Location: Curriers
Moderator: John Mishanec
Pesticide credits: 1.5

  • 9:30 Growing for the high-end restaurant: What they want, and quality considerations
    Jack Algiere, Stone Barns Center
  • 10:00 Leafy Greens and Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) - Not as hard as you think
    Brian Reeves, Reeves Farm
  • 10:30 Fertility to pest control - How we grow leafy greens on Long Island
    Bob Noland, Deer Run Farm
  • 11:00 Field Finesse & Marketing Success - How refining your technique can imporve your bottom line
    Paulette Satur, Satur Farm
  • 11:30 Leafy Greens - Our strategy for cover crops and rotation
    Jane and Bob Pomykala, Pomykala Farm

Soil Health
Location: Salon BCD
Moderator: Mark Hutchinson
Pesticide credits: 1.5, CCA credits: 2.5 soil/water

  • 9:30 Soil Health and Crop Rotations
    Lauchlin Titus, Ag-Matters
  • 10:00 Reduced Tillage Impact on Soil Organisms
    Rob Johanson, Goranson Farm
  • 10:30 Measuring the Impacts of Farm Practices on Soil Health
    Lisa Krall, USDA-NRCS
  • 11:00 Compost; A way to Diversify Soil Microbial Populations
    Will Brinton, Woods End Laboratory
  • 11:30 Brassica cover crops and seed meals as soil biofumigants in vegetable crop production
    Dean Kopsell, University of Tennessee

Tree Fruit II
Location: Salon A
Moderator: Duane Green
Pesticide credits: 2.0, CCA credits: 1.0 crop

  • 9:30 Apple rootstocks, an update frm th eNC-140 research
    Wesley Autio, University of Massachusetts
  • 10:00 New tools to manage insect pests
    Greg Krawczyk, Pennsylvania State University
  • 10:30 The basics of cherry production
    Greg Lang, Michigan State University
  • 11:30 IPM Heresies- What is true for you
    Glen Koehler, University of Maine

Afternoon Program

Blueberry II
Locaton: Armory
Sonia Schloemann
Pesticide credits: 2.0, CCA credits: 0.5 crop, 1.5 pest

  • 2:00 Blueberry Scorch Update - what you need to know
    Peter Oudemans, Rutgers University
  • 2:30 Winter Moth Damage and Management in Blueberries
    Robert Childs, University of Massachusetts
  • 3:00 PYO Blueberries - a grower's perspective
    Maurice Tougas, Tougas Family Farm
  • 3:30 Blueberry Varieties - what's new, what's tried and true
    Mike DeGrandchamp, DeGrandchamp Farm
  • 4:00 Blueberry Pruning
    Cathy Heidenreich, Cornell University

Grower Experiences with Deep Zone Tillage
Location: Frost/Hawthorne
Moderator: Jude Boucher
Pesticide credits: 2.0, CCA credits: 0.5 soil/water

  • 2:00 Why Deep Zone-Tillage/Verticle-Tillage
    Jude Boucher, University of Connecticut
  • 2:30 Transitioning to Deep Zone-Tillage
    Nelson Cecarelli, Cecarelli Farm
  • 3:00 Stabilizing Profitability on Your Farm
    Tom Scott, Scott's Yankee Farmer
  • 3:30 Zone-Tillage - 12 Years Later
    George Ayres, Fresh Ayr Farm
  • 4:00 Why We Switched from Conventional-Till to Strip-Till
    Gary Sweet, Sweet's Gourmet Sweet Corn

Organic Pest Management
Location: Curriers
Moderator: Eric Sideman
Pesticide credits: 2.5, CCA credits: 1.5 pest

  • 2:00 Managing Weeds with Crop Rotation
    Eric Gallandt, Univesity of Maine
  • 2:30 A Whole-System Approach to Managing Weeds
    Andy Jones, Intervale Community Farm
  • 3:00 Efficacy of Various Biological and Microbial Insecticides - Does that really work?
    Abby Seaman, Cornell University Extension
  • 3:30 Efficacy of Various Biological and Microbial Fungicides - Does that really work?
    Meg McGrath, Cornell University Extension
  • 4:00 A Whole-System Approach to Minimizing Pests
    Jean-Paul Courtens and Jody Bolluyt, Roxbury Farm

Sweet Corn
Location: Salon BCD
Moderator: John Mishanec
Pesticide credits: 1.0

  • 2:00 Adapting to the Twenty-First Century
    Gary Sweet, Sweet's Gourmet Sweet Corn
  • 3:00 Retail Opportunities with Sweet Corn
    Ed Harbes, Harbes Family Farm
  • 3:30 Scheduling Sweet Corn Plantings, the easy way
    Hank Bissell, Lewis Creek Farm
  • 4:00 Corn Stars, Highlighting the best varieties in each of the genetic classes
    Blake Meyers, Siegers Seed Company

Tree Fruit III
Location: Salon A
Moderator: Duane Greene
Pesticide credits: 2.0, CCA credits: 1.0 crop, 1.0 pest

  • 2:00 IPM Options Evaluation Tool: A New Pesticide Evaluation and Selection Tool for Agriculture
    Joe Bagdon, Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • 2:30 The ABC of TRV- Tree Row Volume is not rocket science
    Glenn Koelher, University of Maine
  • 3:00 High tunnel production of cherries
    Greg Lang, Michigan State University
  • 3:30 Biointensive IPM and disease management of comparing biopesticides and conventional pesticides in apple disease management
    Dan Cooley, University of Massachusetts
  • 4:00 New, antique and different apples
    Duane Greene and Jon Clements, University of Massachusetts

 

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