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Event Details
Date
July 22, 2015
Time
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Stephen Martin farm
2352 Oak Orchard River Rd
Medina, NY 14103
Cost
This event is free.
Host
Cornell Vegetable ProgramJudson Reid
585-313-8912
email Judson Reid
Vegetable Pest and Cultural Management Field Meeting - Orleans County
July 22, 2015![Vegetable Pest and Cultural Management Field Meeting - Orleans County](https://rvpadmin.cce.cornell.edu/images/event/image411.jpg)
This course will demonstrate pest management in fresh market vegetables in both field and greenhouse (high tunnel) vegetables; primarily for those growing for wholesale auction. A hands-on demonstration of weed, insect and disease identification in vegetables including management options such as inter-row cover crops, grafting and where appropriate, spray options will be used to educate growers. Judson Reid, Senior Extension Associate with the Cornell Vegetable Program will instruct participants and facilitate peer-based learning. This meeting will be held at Stephen Martin's farm in Medina (corner of Oak Orchard River Rd and Knowlesville Rd). Details on each topic will focus on field observations at this farm.
6:30 Welcome
6:35 Weed control in row crop vegetables
- Why? (moisture completion, insect and disease management, labor efficiency)
- How? (cultivation, herbicides, inter-row cover crops: spring seeding or winter rye; pros- and cons)
- Late blight and early blight updates
- Grafting for improved root-zone disease resistance in greenhouse and high tunnels
- Greenhouse cucumber grafting for vigor and yield
- Downy mildew management: cucumbers, cantaloupes and watermelon (tunnels/greenhouses, effective fungicide programs)
- Cucumber beetle, squash bug, stink bug
- Powdery mildew (resistance, effective fungicide programs)
8:30 Adjourn
Attendees will present an ID and record their certification ID number, print name and sign the Recertification Training Roster. The roster will be secured by a Cornell Vegetable Program representative and only the attendees who sit for the entire course will be awarded a certificate.