All produce farms want to grow safe food, right? Are your markets asking for food safety plans or audit certification? Do you want to understand produce safety issues? A way to do this is to learn and follow produce safety practices with Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs).

Join Robert Hadad, Regional Vegetable Specialist with the Cornell Vegetable Program, and Lynn Bliven, Ag & Natural Resources Issue Leader from CCE Allegany County for this full day workshop on Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and leave with information to start a food safety plan for YOUR farm!

This event is a blind wine tasting for ENY grape industry members to get feedback from fellow growers and Cornell Enologists on unfinished white wines (hybrid, vinifera, etc.)

We respectfully request that only professional winemakers or commercial vineyard owners attend, as space is limited. Limit two wines per winery/vineyard.

Pre-registration is required.  For questions, please contact Jeremy Schuster at jds544@cornell.edu

Thursdays: February 27 - April 3, with two additional Monday webinars on March 17 and March 24

Tree fruit are an important component of the agricultural and homeowner landscape. This course, which offers eight live webinars for its 2025 offering, trains beginning tree fruit growers in fundamental concepts in orchard planning and management.

Access to the 2025 Cornell In-Depth Fruit School recordings are now available for purchase. 

A one day clinic for respirator fit testing will be held in Wayne County on April 17th. Please be sure to register by April 7th, as space is limited. 

Join specialists Janet Van Zoeren, Anya Stansell, and Anna Wallis for a conversation about fruit and berry phenology and pest management, at a new location each month.

Join CCE-ENYCHP and CCE-LOFP specialists this Thursday to review pre-bloom orchard management recommendations for Western and Northeast NY.

Join LOF team  members, in Wayne County to hear updates and petal fall thinning recommendations by Terence Robinson.

Join LOF team  members, in Orleans County to hear updates and petal fall thinning recommendations by Terence Robinson. 

Western NY Post-Bloom Pest/Disease Management Updates & 8-12 mm Thinning Recommendations Zoom Meeting

    Thursday, May 22, 4-5:30 PM

4:00 PM - Welcome, Craig Kahlke, CCE-LOF

4:05:  How Long & What to Spray for Plum Curculio? - Janet van Zoeren, CCE-LOF

4:15:  Disease Management Updates - Dr. Kerik Cox, Cornell University

4:30:  8-12 mm Thinning Recommendations for Western NY - Dr. Terence Robinson, Cornell University

5:15-5:30 - Additional Q & A, if needed

No registration necessary, just click on the link during the meeting time:

https://cornell.zoom.us/j/93624363119?pwd=jH7XcktS2cEo0gazYuzyFtqN6otNgI.1&from=addon

Join via Zoom this Thursday May 22 for the Western NY  Post-Bloom Pest/Disease Management Updates & 8-12 mm Thinning Recommendations 

Join specialists Janet Van Zoeren, Anya Stansell, and Anna Wallis for a conversation about fruit and berry phenology and pest management, at a new location each month.

At this meeting, we will discuss previous research on using mulch for weed management, including the benefits of stacking mulch treatments with an organic herbicide program. We will then discuss the treatments in our field trial, discuss results to date, and get initial reactions from the grower, while viewing the field trial.  We will then discuss the other study objective, using a mechanical weeding system to replace contact herbicide applications, currently underway in the Champlain Valley.

Join specialists Anya Stansell and Anna Wallis for a conversation about fruit and berry phenology and pest management, at a new location each month. This meeting will include Spanish Interpretation. Este mes en Español También.

Open to all Onion Enthusiasts, the Muck Onion Growers Twilight Meeting will include new fungicide recommendations for Botrytis leaf blight and Stemphylium leaf blight, onion maggot seed treatment update, herbicide demonstration tour, and more. This educational event is immediately followed by a catered dinner; both are FREE thanks to generous sponsors!

2.0 DEC recertification credits available in categories 1a, 10 and 23. 

Join Cornell University Food Science experts, along with CCE ENYCHP specialists Dan Donahue and Elisabeth Hodgdon for a day-long intensive workshop on managing Listeria in apple packinghouse environments.