ONLINE Office Hours for Commercial Vegetable Growers
Event Details
Date
May 14, 2020
Time
7:00-8:00pm
Location
Online via Zoom
Cost
FREE!
This event is free! Register to receive the Zoom link.
Host
Cornell Vegetable ProgramElizabeth Buck
585-406-3419
email Elizabeth Buck

This week, the "office" will be staffed by the following educators:
- Elisabeth Hodgdon, Vegetable Specialist, CCE ENY Commercial Horticulture Program. Elisabeth will help answer pest management, high tunnel, and organic questions.
- Margie Lund, Vegetable Specialists, CCE Cornell Vegetable Specialist. Potato and dry beans are Margie's area of expertise! She can also answer your storage questions.
- Meg McGrath, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. Meg is a vegetable disease expert in both conventional and organic production systems.
- Ali Nafchi, Precision Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension. Ali is happy to help vegetable farmers learn how to use precision ag technologies to influence their production decisions.
Do you have a photo of your crop that you want help diagnosing? Email it to us in advance and we'll discuss it during the meeting.


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