Vegetable Pest and Cultural Management Field Meeting for Auction Growers (Seneca)

July 3, 2019


This course will demonstrate pest management in fresh market vegetables in both field and greenhouse (high tunnel) vegetables, primarily for those growing for wholesale auction. A hands-on demonstration of weed, insect and disease identification in vegetables including management options such as inter-row cover crops, grafting, and where appropriate, spray options will be used to educate growers. Judson Reid, Senior Extension Associate with the CCE Cornell Vegetable Program along with CCE staff will instruct participants and facilitate peer-based learning. Details on each topic will focus on field observations at these farms. 

DEC recertification credits will be offered.

7:00 Welcome

7:05 Weed control in row crop vegetables

• Why?

o Moisture competition

o Insect and disease management

o Labor efficiency

• How?

o Cultivation

o Herbicides

o Inter-row cover crops: spring seeding or winter rye; pros- and cons

7:45 Tomato and potato disease updates

• Late blight and early blight updates

• Grafting for improved root-zone disease resistance in greenhouse and high tunnels

8:15 Cucurbits

• Greenhouse cucumber grafting for vigor and yield

• Downy mildew management: cucumbers, cantaloupes and watermelon

o Tunnels/greenhouses

o Effective fungicide programs

• Cucumber beetle, squash bug, stink bug

• Powdery mildew

o Resistance

o Effective fungicide programs

8:45 Questions and answer/other farm specific crop observations, and food safety news

9:00 Adjourn
   
Attendees will present an ID and record their certification ID number, print name and sign the Recertification Training Roster. The roster will be secured by a Cornell Vegetable Program representative and only the attendees who sit for the entire course will be awarded a certificate.
 

Grower Meeting poster (8.5 x 11) (PDF; 1649KB)