ONLINE Office Hours for Commercial Vegetable Growers
Event Details
Date
May 14, 2020
Time
7:00-8:00pm
Location
Online via Zoom
Cost
FREE!
This event is free! Register to receive the Zoom link.
Host
Cornell Vegetable ProgramElizabeth Buck
585-406-3419
email Elizabeth Buck
This week, the "office" will be staffed by the following educators:
- Elisabeth Hodgdon, Vegetable Specialist, CCE ENY Commercial Horticulture Program. Elisabeth will help answer pest management, high tunnel, and organic questions.
- Margie Lund, Vegetable Specialists, CCE Cornell Vegetable Specialist. Potato and dry beans are Margie's area of expertise! She can also answer your storage questions.
- Meg McGrath, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. Meg is a vegetable disease expert in both conventional and organic production systems.
- Ali Nafchi, Precision Agriculture Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension. Ali is happy to help vegetable farmers learn how to use precision ag technologies to influence their production decisions.
Do you have a photo of your crop that you want help diagnosing? Email it to us in advance and we'll discuss it during the meeting.
Apples
Apricots
Asparagus
Beets
Blueberries
Broccoli
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
Cherries
Cucumbers
Dry Beans
Eggplant
Ethnic Vegetables
Garlic
Grapes
Horseradish
Kohlrabi
Leeks
Lettuce / Leafy Greens
Melons
Nectarines
Onions
Parsnips
Peaches
Pears
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Potatoes
Pumpkins / Gourds
Radishes
Raspberries / Blackberries
Rhubarb
Rutabaga
Snap Beans
Squash - Summer
Squash- Winter
Strawberries
Sweet Corn
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes
Turnips
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