2017 Hudson Valley Commercial Vegetable Growers' School and Mini Trade Show!

Join us for our annual CCE ENYCHP Winter School.  This event will include a full day of speakers and a small trade show.

3.75 NYS DEC Pesticide Re-certification credits will be available

Please register by Monday, January 30th. You must be pre-registered to attend this event!  Your registration includes a hot lunch.

8:00 Registration, DEC Recertification Sign-up, coffee and visit with our sponsors! 

8:50 Introduction and Announcements - Teresa Rusinek, CCE ENYCHP

9:00 Year 2 of Our Beet and Carrot Variety Trials - CCE Crystal Stewart, CCE ENYCHP

9:20 Cover Crop Tour - See What You Missed This Fall at our Cover Crop Meeting - Chuck Bornt, CCE ENYCHP

9:40 DEC, WPS Changes and a New Municipal Code - Maire Ullrich, CCE Orange County/CCE ENYCHP

10:00 Look out! for New and Emerging Pests in Our Region - Teresa Rusinek, CCE ENYCHP

10:30 Industry Updates & Coffee Break

11:00 What's New with Crop Insurance? - Elizabeth Higgins, CCE ENYCHP

11:15 What's New with Bio-Pesticides? - Dr. Margaret McGrath, Cornell University

11:45 Minimizing Disease Risk Using Resistant Varieties and Seed Disinfestation - Dr. Margaret McGrath, Cornell University

12:15 Hot Buffet Lunch, Visit with Sponsors 

1:15 Vegetable Transplant Production: Media, Fertility and Other Factors that Affect Your Transplant Quality Neil Mattson, Cornell University

1:45 Mitigating Environmental Stress in Tomatoes - Dr. Gordon Johnson, University of Delaware & Dr. Gordon Johnson, University of Delaware 

2:15 Optimizing Microgreens Production- Neil Mattson, Cornell University

2:45 Break

3:00 Recognizing and mitigating stress in Cucurbit crops - Dr. Gordon Johnson, University of Delaware

3:30 Training and Pruning Systems for Cherry Tomatoes in High Tunnels - Amy Ivy, CCE ENYCHP

4:00 Evaluations, pick up DEC Sheets and Adjourn