Storage Crop Facility School: Large-Scale Vegetable (Potato and Cabbage)
Event Details
Date
December 1, 2020
Time
9:00am - 1:00pm
Location
via Zoom
Cost
FREE!
Host
Cornell Vegetable ProgramMargie Lund
607-377-9109
email Margie Lund
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Speakers from across the Northeast will be presenting on challenges and updates surrounding large-scale potato and cabbage storage. Join us to hear about storage innovation and updating facilities, decreasing storage diseases, storage funding programs, and farm food safety considerations for storage facilities.
AGENDA:
9:00 AM - Introduction and overview
9:10-10:00 - Innovations in potato and cabbage storage and upgrading old facilities -- Techmark, Inc.
10:00-10:30 - Decreasing potato diseases in storage -- Steve Johnson, University of Maine
10:30-11:00 - Decreasing cabbage Alternaria in storage -- Chris Smart, Cornell University
11:00-11:30 - Funding programs for upgrading or building new facilities, equipment -- Karen Rugenstein, Farm Service Agency
11:30-12:00 - Farm food safety considerations for storage -- Robert Hadad, CCE Cornell Vegetable Program
12:00-12:30 - NYS Farm to School program -- Becky O'Connor, Harvest NY
12:30-1:00 - Additional time for questions and further discussion with speakers
REGISTRATION:
This FREE event will be held online via Zoom or you can listen in by phone. Registration is required. Only those who register will receive meeting attendance information. To register, please email Margie Lund and include the name(s), phone number, and email of those who plan to attend.
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