2022 Finger Lakes Produce Auction Growers Meeting
Event Details
Date
January 6, 2022
Time
9:00am coffee and registration, 10:00am - 2:30 meeting
Location
Finger Lakes Produce Auction
3691 Rt 14A
Penn Yan, NY 14527
Cost
FREE!
Host
Cornell Vegetable ProgramJudson Reid
585-313-8912
email Judson Reid
This course will educate growers on disease and pest management, varieties and marketing issues in open field and high tunnel vegetables. Topics such as disease resistant varieties, pest/disease, cultural management, biological controls and appropriate spray options. The meeting will include grower and buyer panels and auction updates. 1.75 DEC credits will be offered in categories 10, 1a, 23, 24.
AGENDA:
9:00am Coffee, registration, DEC sign-up, arrive any time before 10:00
10:00 Welcome, overview -- Judson Reid
10:05 Management update -- The value of maintaining volume for large scale customers and the importance of year to year consistency -- Allan Ray Hoover, FLPA Chair
10:15 High Tunnel Tomatoes -- Cover crops as a tool to reduce soil borne diseases, overwintering insect pests and soil imbalances-species and planting dates -- Judson Reid and Caitlin Tucker, Cornell Cooperative Extension
11:00 Weed Control in produce crops: a Grower's Perspective on herbicides, plasticulture and cultivation -- FLPA growers TBD
11:30 Vine crop viruses, such as CMV, WMV, PRSV and their vectors; Is Control Possible? Bonus: Why Did Downy Mildew hit Pumpkins in 2021 and effective management? -- Judson Reid, Cornell Vegetable Program
12:00pm Vendor updates
12:15 Lunch
1:15 Food Safety Modernization Act update; who is covered and what must they do? -- Caitlin Tucker, Cornell Vegetable Program
1:30 Biocontrols in high tunnel and field vegetables: a grower's experience -- Judson Reid, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Nate Savage, Sunscape Farms, Rochester, NY
2:00 Greenhouse Flower Production: growing big, beautiful baskets for auction -- Grower Panel TBD
2:30pm Adjourn and credits
Participants seeking DEC recertification credits will be required to present Applicator License and sign roster before the beginning of the program. Only attendees who remain for the duration of the program will receive a certificate. Cornell Vegetable Program staff will supervise process and distribute certificates at the conclusion of the program.
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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