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February 2025

Genesee Valley Winter Meeting

February 11, 2025
9 AM - 12 PM Vegetables & Flowers; 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM Soil, Fertility, Manure Mgmt
Farmersville Center Community Church
Farmersville, NY

This two-session event will feature vegetables and flowers in Session 1, and soils, fertility, and manure management in Session 2.

Food Safety Lunch and Learn Webinar Series

February 11, 2025 : Part One: What's Going on with Food Safety?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
online

NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets FSMA inspectors are expected to step up farm visits this season. Why are they showing up on the farm asking about FSMA? Aren't we exempt? This noontime hour we will discuss the purpose of the farm visits and what produce farmers need to know.

2025 New York State Potato School

Event Offers DEC Credits

February 11 - February 12, 2025
Del Lago Resort and Casino
Waterloo, NY

2025 New York State Potato School

This year's program will feature speakers covering critically important topics like disease management, updates in storage techniques, new varieties, and other production management practices. New for this year will be the Processor Panel where guests will have the chance to interact with some of the major chip processors in the northeast. Your participation will also earn you DEC and CCA points.

Remote Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Training

February 12, 2025
8:00am - 4:45pm
Zoom

Join Cornell Cooperative Extension of Orange and Oneida Counties, the Cornell Vegetable Program, Harvest NY, and the Eastern NY Horticulture Team on Feb. 12 for a remote Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) training. Good Agricultural Practices is a voluntary food safety audit program requiring minimum standards for the production, handling, packing, and storing of fresh fruits and vegetables, and is required by some buyers. Trainers will cover food safety best management practices related to worker training, preharvest assessments and wildlife management, water testing, postharvest handling, hygienic equipment design and efficient wash-pack setups, how to write a farm food safety plan, and more. The training will follow the USDA GAPs audit checklist so that farms will be prepared for an audit. A NYSDAM GAPs auditor will join us to discuss audit logistics and answer questions from participants. Following the course, we will offer a series of virtual office hours to follow up with course participants to assist them with writing their farm food safety plan, which is mandatory for the GAPs audit. Participants will receive a certificate of course completion after the training.

Food Safety Lunch and Learn Webinar Series

February 18, 2025 : Part Two: What Counts as Food Processing?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
online

In this session, we will discuss what counts as processing and what doesn't. Stories of inspectors coming to farmers markets and auctions telling some growers certain products can't be sold usually without much explanation. We will try to make some sense of things and clear up some misunderstandings so hopefully the upcoming season goes smoothly.

Food Safety Lunch and Learn Webinar Series

February 25, 2025 : Part Three: Traceability - Benefits for Food Safety and Beyond
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
online

Can having a traceback process for your produce (and other farm products) make good business sense regardless of FSMA regulations? We will (try to) make the case for farms to have some sort of traceability mechanism in place.

Allium Pests!

February 26, 2025
12:00 noon - 1:00 PM
via Zoom

Presented by Christy Hoepting (CCE Cornell Vegetable Program) and Ann Hazelrigg (Univ. of VT), this webinar will focus on organic management of pests and diseases of onions, garlic, leeks. The webinar is part of a series supported by the Transition to Organic Partnership Program. 

March 2025

Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Training

March 4 - March 5, 2025
March 4th 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM; March 5th 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
CCE Onondaga County (or remote via Zoom)
Syracuse, NY

Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Training

This two-day workshop will train fruit and vegetable growers and others interested in produce safety, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Produce Safety Rule, Good Agricultural Practices (GAPSs), and co-management of natural resources and food safety. (A remote attendance option is available.)

Elba Muck Onion Growers Pre-Season Meeting: SLB in Transplants, Onion Thrips

Event Offers DEC Credits

March 10, 2025
10:00 AM - 12:00 noon
CY Farms Boardroom
Elba, NY

Elba Muck Onion Growers Pre-Season Meeting: SLB in Transplants, Onion Thrips

This meeting will provide muck onion growers with a heads-up prior to the 2025 growing season: Stemphylium leaf blight in onion transplants and its effect on SLB epidemics and fungicide resistance, onion thrips topics, and information on potential use of a weekly scouting app to map onion thrips pressure in Elba. 2.0 DEC recertification credits will be offered in 1a, 10, and 23. CCA credits will be available too.

2025 NYS Processing Vegetable Industry Meeting

Event Offers DEC Credits

March 11, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
First United Methodist Church
Batavia, NY

2025 NYS Processing Vegetable Industry Meeting

Processing vegetable industry members who grow, manage, or support crop production for Farm Fresh First/Nortera Foods, Seneca Foods and/or Love Beets, are encouraged to sign-up for the 2025 NYS Processing Vegetable Industry Meeting! You will:

  • Network at this in-person meeting.
  • Learn the results of industry-funded research.
  • Have a voice in Cornell research and Extension.
  • Earn 2.0 DEC pesticide applicator recertification credits
  • Earn 2.0 Certified Crop Advisor Credits

Oswego Muck Onion Growers Pre-Season Meeting: Bacterial Bulb Rot

Event Offers DEC Credits

March 13, 2025
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, catered dinner follows
Mohegan Manor Restaurant and Banquet Facility
Baldwinsville, NY

Oswego Muck Onion Growers Pre-Season Meeting: Bacterial Bulb Rot

Can we win the rot race? At this pre-season meeting, Oswego muck onion growers will hear the complexities of bacterial bulb rot of onion. An open discussion between growers and allied industry reps will be led by Christy Hoepting. 1.0 DEC recertification credits in categories 1a, 10 and 23 will be available.

2025 NYS Dry Bean Meeting and Cutting Event

Event Offers DEC Credits

March 19, 2025
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (meeting); 1:00 PM (cutting)
Cornell AgriTech, Jordan Hall 2nd floor auditorium
Geneva, NY

2025 NYS Dry Bean Meeting and Cutting Event

The NYS Dry Bean Meeting will be paired with the annual Dry Bean Cutting Event again this year! The morning meeting will include presentations on the latest dry bean research in New York, with topics including market updates, dry bean variety breeding and trial updates, white mold control, Western bean cutworm management, and identifying management tactics for major pests in dry beans. DEC and CCA credits will be available.

The Dry Bean Cutting will follow the meeting and showcase the canned dry beans from the 2024 Dry Bean Variety Trial. 

April 2025

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Upcoming Events

Food Safety Lunch and Learn Webinar Series

February 11, 2025 : Part One: What's Going on with Food Safety?

NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets FSMA inspectors are expected to step up farm visits this season. Why are they showing up on the farm asking about FSMA? Aren't we exempt? This noontime hour we will discuss the purpose of the farm visits and what produce farmers need to know.


February 18, 2025 : Part Two: What Counts as Food Processing?

In this session, we will discuss what counts as processing and what doesn't. Stories of inspectors coming to farmers markets and auctions telling some growers certain products can't be sold usually without much explanation. We will try to make some sense of things and clear up some misunderstandings so hopefully the upcoming season goes smoothly.


February 25, 2025 : Part Three: Traceability - Benefits for Food Safety and Beyond

Can having a traceback process for your produce (and other farm products) make good business sense regardless of FSMA regulations? We will (try to) make the case for farms to have some sort of traceability mechanism in place.

Allium Pests!

February 26, 2025

Presented by Christy Hoepting (CCE Cornell Vegetable Program) and Ann Hazelrigg (Univ. of VT), this webinar will focus on organic management of pests and diseases of onions, garlic, leeks. The webinar is part of a series supported by the Transition to Organic Partnership Program. 

Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Training

March 4 - March 5, 2025
Syracuse, NY

This two-day workshop will train fruit and vegetable growers and others interested in produce safety, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Produce Safety Rule, Good Agricultural Practices (GAPSs), and co-management of natural resources and food safety. (A remote attendance option is available.)

Announcements

We're Hiring: Vegetable Field Research Technician

Vegetable Field Research Technician (Batavia, NY)
If you enjoy working outdoors and want to gain hands-on experience in research conducted on a diverse set of working vegetable farms, this position is for you! The position (39 hours/week) with CCE Cornell Vegetable Program is available from May through August with possible extension depending on candidate availability. This position will be housed at the Cornell Cooperative Extension office in Batavia, NY. Regular travel throughout our program region will be required. 

To Apply:
External applicants must apply through the Cornell Careers site. Internal applicants (including temporary employees) will need to apply through Workday.

The initial posting will close on February 23, 2025 but may be extended based on the initial candidate pool.

Winter Cover Cropping in High Tunnels

Cornell Cooperative Extension is researching cover crops for high tunnel growers to better manage fertility and improve soil health. Our work has shown that winter cover cropping in high tunnels has the potential to add organic matter, improve soil structure, support microbial activity, and help with nutrient management by scavenging leftover nitrogen and/or fixing nitrogen. This publication, Management Practices for High Organic Matter Soils: Winter Cover Cropping in High Tunnels, shares best practices for winter cover cropping in high tunnels including species selection, planting rates and dates, termination, and cultural management considerations.

Laser Scarecrows to Deter Birds in Sweet Corn

Are you considering the use of a laser scarecrow to deter birds on your farm? Cornell Cooperative Extension and the University of Rhode Island teamed up to test a research laser scarecrow on sweet corn farms.

A laser scarecrow is a device that has one or more laser modules connected to motors. The specifications of the lasers are optimized to the color and motion sensitivity of bird's eyes. When laser beams move across a field, birds become frightened and attempt to move away from the perceived threat. Light from the laser covers an area quickly and moves through the canopy without causing injury to the crop. Research demonstrates that birds do not readily become habituated to the laser.

A laser scarecrow used as the sole deterrent typically results in a significant reduction in crop damage. Combined with an auditory device, damage can be reduced even more. When used as part of an integrated management program for bird control that utilizes habitat management and multiple scare tactics, laser scarecrows can be useful tools for growers of multiple crops. All scare tactics must be deployed before birds find the field. The effectiveness of lasers depends on multiple factors such as bird species, bird populations, habitat and food availability. Lasers are not effective at deterring deer, racoons, coyotes or other mammals.

To learn more, the Laser Scarecrows to Deter Birds in Sweet Corn and Other High-Value Agricultural Crops fact sheet provides background information, research data, FAQs, and Advantages/Limitations on laser scarecrows.

NY Urban Farms Pest Management Fact Sheet Series

Cornell Cooperative Extension has partnered with dozens of urban farms across New York State to demonstrate and evaluate sustainable pest management strategies. Together with farmers, we found success using control methods that prevent or reduce crop losses through exclusion strategies, crop timing, host resistance, the introduction of beneficial organisms, and more. Regardless of management strategy used, common requirements for success include a knowledge of the pest and disease complex, preventative deployment and commitment to the process. The New York Urban Farms Sustainable Pest Management Fact Sheet Series includes case studies highlighting pest management techniques that New York urban farms have found valuable.

NYS Urban Growers Pest Management Needs Assessment

As part of a multi-year project exploring non-spray pest management options that are economically and environmentally sustainable for urban farms, we conducted a needs assessment with urban growers across New York State. The New York State Urban Growers Pest Management Needs Assessment presents findings on current pest management practices, challenges, and topics of future interest.