2025 Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting in Oswego
Event Details

Date
June 26, 2025
Time
4:00 PM registration; 4:30 - 7:00 PM meeting; catered dinner at 7:00 PM
Location
Dunsmoor Farms - Lake Elizabeth location
779 County Rte 53
Oswego, NY 13126
Cost
FREE meeting and dinner!
No RSVP required!
Host
CCE Cornell Vegetable Program and Oswego Co. Veg Growers and Improvement Assoc.Christy Hoepting
585-721-6953
email Christy Hoepting

CCE Cornell Vegetable Program and Oswego County Vegetable Growers and Improvement Association present the 2025 Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting in Oswego! Open to all Onion Enthusiasts, the meeting will include new fungicide recommendations for Botrytis leaf blight and Stemphylium leaf blight, onion maggot seed treatment update, herbicide demonstration tour, and more.
2.0 DEC recertification credits available in categories 1a, 10 and 23.
This educational event is immediately followed by a catered dinner; both are FREE thanks to generous sponsors! No RSVP required. We'll have plenty of food!
Questions? Contact Christy Hoepting, Rane Sorbello (rsorbello87@gmail.com) or Joe DiSalvo (joedisalvo90@gmail.com).
PLATINUM SPONSORS: Bejo Seeds, Gowan Company and Gowan SeedTech.
GOLD SPONSORS: Enza Zaden, Seedway, Syngenta, and Valent USA.
SILVER SPONSORS: Bayer Crop Science, Certis Biologicals, Clifton Seed Company, FMC Corporation, Growmark FS, Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Stokes Seeds, and VM Agritech.


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