Niagara Region Vegetable Meeting - Sponsorship Opportunities

August 14, 2024

We'll start this meeting off at Root Down Farm to hear late season disease management updates in peppers and cole crops, plus current best management practices to limit fungicide resistance. Potato variety recommendations and disease control questions in potatoes will be addressed. 

Then we'll head to Kreher's beet field to view and discuss alternative weed control technologies. The beet field is an on-farm demonstration of various flame weeding protocols in comparison with stacked tool cultivation equipment. One or two weeding robots will be on-hand for live demonstrations and discussion of the technology's current abilities and future potential. We'll also cover industry updates and a review of late summer disease management in squash. 

2.0 DEC credits will be available in categories 23, 1a, and 10. Pre-registration requested.

Sponsor the pizza dinner and help defray costs of the meeting. You'll get a timeslot to address attendees during dinner. 

We expect about 30 vegetable growers to attend this meeting. Growers will be from Erie, Niagara, Orleans, and Genesee counties. The growers will reflect the spectrum of farms in this region and include broad acreage processing farms, organic and conventional fresh market growers raising 10-80 A of vegetables, and a variety of smaller, direct-to-consumer producers. A number of ag service providers are also anticipated to attend.