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June 2025
2025 Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting in Oswego

June 26, 2025
4:00 PM registration; 4:30 - 7:00 PM meeting; catered dinner at 7:00 PM
Dunsmoor Farms - Lake Elizabeth location
Oswego, NY

Open to all Onion Enthusiasts, the Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting will include new fungicide recommendations for Botrytis leaf blight and Stemphylium leaf blight, onion maggot seed treatment update, herbicide demonstration tour, and more. This educational event is immediately followed by a catered dinner; both are FREE thanks to generous sponsors!
2.0 DEC recertification credits available in categories 1a, 10 and 23.
July 2025
Orleans Summer Vegetable Meeting, 2025

July 16, 2025
5:45 PM sign-in; meeting at 6:00 PM
Orchard View Farm
Waterport, NY
Meeting themes are pest management in a wide array of produce and best practices for pesticide use. Professor Brian Nault will cover allium leaf miner and thrips in onions, garlic, and leeks, and discuss insect challenges in other crops. Bring your questions! We'll also have a field walk that includes high tunnel tomato and cucumber.
DEC credits available: 0.5 in CORE plus either 1.25 in 1a and 23, or 0.75 in 24.
Lake Erie Region Summer Meeting

July 24, 2025
Evening (time TBD)
MCR Farms
Brant, NY
This meeting will cover organic and conventional management and will be relevant for producers of all sizes. Topics include a field walk covering wide array of vegetable pests/diseases control, new insecticide for potato, variety trial results, industry updates, best practices for spraying, and managing diseases in table grapes.
DEC credits requested.
August 2025
Niagara Region Summer Meeting, 2025

August 7, 2025
Evening (time TBD)
J. Hurtgam Farms
Ransomville, NY
We're in for a treat! Professor Steve Reiners is coming as a part of his pre-retirement speaking tour! Steve's a fantastic, down-to-earth speaker with extensive knowledge on horticultural techniques, fertility, varieties, and much more. Don't miss this event! Topics include "what exactly do NPK and other nutrients do inside the plants?", a pest/disease field walk, sweet corn variety trial, a tar spot primer, spraying best practices, and industry updates. Content will be relevant for organic, CNG, and conventional growers.
DEC credits requested.


Upcoming Events
2025 Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting in Oswego

June 26, 2025
Oswego, NY
Open to all Onion Enthusiasts, the Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting will include new fungicide recommendations for Botrytis leaf blight and Stemphylium leaf blight, onion maggot seed treatment update, herbicide demonstration tour, and more. This educational event is immediately followed by a catered dinner; both are FREE thanks to generous sponsors!
2.0 DEC recertification credits available in categories 1a, 10 and 23.
Orleans Summer Vegetable Meeting, 2025

July 16, 2025
Waterport, NY
Meeting themes are pest management in a wide array of produce and best practices for pesticide use. Professor Brian Nault will cover allium leaf miner and thrips in onions, garlic, and leeks, and discuss insect challenges in other crops. Bring your questions! We'll also have a field walk that includes high tunnel tomato and cucumber.
DEC credits available: 0.5 in CORE plus either 1.25 in 1a and 23, or 0.75 in 24.
Lake Erie Region Summer Meeting

July 24, 2025
Brant, NY
This meeting will cover organic and conventional management and will be relevant for producers of all sizes. Topics include a field walk covering wide array of vegetable pests/diseases control, new insecticide for potato, variety trial results, industry updates, best practices for spraying, and managing diseases in table grapes.
DEC credits requested.