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July 2025

2025 Berry Twilight Meetings

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 2, 2025 : Berry Twilight Meeting at Dressel Farms
5:30-7:00PM
Dressel Farms
New Paltz, NY

Join Heather Kase, CCE ENYCHP, and Anna Wallis, Cornell IPM, for seasonal updates on berry pest man-agement and IPM. 

Vegetable Field Meetings with Dr. Steve Reiners

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 14, 2025 : Herkimer County - Ivan Martin's Farm
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Herkimer County - Ivan Martin's Farm
Herkimer, NY

Topics: Tomato Fertility and Mitigating Physiological Disorders; Pest Scouting, ID, and IPM Field Walk. 

CVP Listed Event

Vegetable Pest and Cultural Management Field Meeting for Auction Growers -- Ontario Produce Auction

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 15, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Andrew Leid's farm
Stanley, NY

This evening meeting 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. Details on each topic will focus on field observations at the farm.

Vegetable Field Meetings with Dr. Steve Reiners

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 15, 2025 : Washington County - Hand Melon Farm
4:00 - 7:00 pm
Hand Melon Farm
Greenwich, NY

Topics: Tomato Fertility and Mitigating Physiological Disorders, Tomato and Sweet Corn IPM; FSMA Water Assessments and Postharvest Sanitation

Vegetable Field Meetings with Dr. Steve Reiners

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 16, 2025 : Ulster County - Wallkill View Farm
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Wallkill View Farm
New Paultz, NY

Topics: Tomato Fertility and Mitigating Physiological Disorders; Veg Pest Update and Management; Cornell Tomato Breeding Program and Slicer Tomato Variety Trial Tour

CVP Listed Event

Orleans Summer Vegetable Meeting, 2025

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 16, 2025
5:45 PM sign-in; meeting at 6:00 PM
Orchard View Farm
Waterport, NY

Meeting themes are pest management in a wide array of produce and best practices for pesticide use. Professor Brian Nault will cover allium leaf miner and thrips in onions, garlic, and leeks, and discuss insect challenges in other crops. Bring your questions! We'll also have a field walk that includes high tunnel tomato and cucumber. 

DEC credits available: 0.5 in CORE plus either 1.25 in 1a and 23, or 0.75 in 24.

2025 Berry Twilight Meetings

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 16, 2025 : Berry Twilight Meeting at Samascott Orchards
5:30-7:00PM
Samascott Orchards
Kinderhook, NY

Join Heather Kase, CCE ENYCHP, and Anna Wallis, Cornell IPM, for seasonal updates on berry pest man-agement and IPM. 

LOF Listed Event

2025 Apple Social

July 17, 2025 : Wayne County - Apple Social
6pm - 9pm
VanAcker Farms
Williamson, NY

2025 Apple Social

Please join us at this casual networking event for all apple industry folks from Western NY, proudly sponsored by Valent. There will be a brief introduction of the Lake Ontario Fruit Program, and from attending specialists.

Champlain Valley Orchard Field Afternoon

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 17, 2025 : Champlain Valley Orchard Field Afternoon
1pm to 4pm
Chazy Orchards
Chazy, NY

This July ENYCHP will be hosting an orchard field afternoon highlighting Mike's research trials at Chazy Orchards.

CVP Listed Event

Vegetable Pest and Cultural Management Field Meeting for Auction Growers -- Finger Lakes Produce Auction

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 18, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Dwight Zimmerman farm
Penn Yan, NY

This evening meeting 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. Details on each topic will focus on field observations at the farm.

CVP Listed Event

Lake Erie Region Summer Meeting

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 24, 2025
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
MCR Farms
Brant, NY

This meeting will cover organic and conventional management and will be relevant for producers of all sizes. This broad-reaching meeting will feature a mixed fresh market field walk, potatoes, sprayer calibration, and disease control in table and wine grapes. We'll cover organic and conventional controls and present information for growers of all scales of production.

2.0 DEC (0.5 CORE, 1.0 Veg, 0.5 Fruit)

LOF Listed Event

2025 Apple Social

July 24, 2025 : Orleans County - Apple Social
6pm - 9pm
Yates Town Park
Lyndonville, NY

2025 Apple Social

Please join us at this casual networking event for all apple industry folks from Western NY, proudly sponsored by Valent. There will be a brief introduction of the Lake Ontario Fruit Program, and from attending specialists.

CVP Listed Event

Vegetable Pest and Cultural Management Field Meeting for Auction Growers -- Seneca Produce Auction

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 30, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Jesse Stoltzfus' Farm
Romulus, NY

This evening meeting 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. Details on each topic will focus on field observations at the farm.

2.0 DEC credits in categories 10, 1a, 23, and 24.

LOF Listed Event

Tree Fruit & Small Fruit Twilight Meetings

July 31, 2025 : Tree Fruit & Small Fruit Twilight Meetings 4 of 4 - CANCELED
CANCELED

LOF Listed Event

3rd Annual Western NY Fruit Growers Tour, Featuring Wayne County

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 31, 2025
All Day
Farms in Wayne County

Registration open!


We are excited to announce the 3rd annual Western New York Fruit Grower Tour, the premier fruit tour of the northeast brought to you by Cornell Cooperative Extension's Lake Ontario Fruit Program and Lake Ontario Ag Consulting, LLC! Located in Wayne County, this orchard field day will highlight new and existing products, chemistries, practices, technologies & equipment that shape the orchard industry today. The Western NY Fruit Grower Tour will again combine two past orchard tour events, the LOF Summer Fruit Tour and the Wayne County Fruit Grower Tour, giving industry members the opportunity to conveniently showcase their product offerings to ONE unified group at ONE time and place! 

* Schedule subject to change.

LOF Listed Event

2025 Cornell In-Depth Fruit School Recordings

April 8, 2025
July 31, 2025
: Recording Available for 2025 Cornell In-Depth Fruit School
Now until July 31st

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

August 2025

Worker Protection Standards Mock Inspection with the DEC

Event Offers DEC Credits

August 4, 2025 : Worker Protection Standards Mock Inspection with the DEC
10am-12pm
Hudson Valley Research Lab
Highland, NY

Join ENCHP and DEC staff for a WPS mock inspection. Attendees will split into groups and rotate between multiple stations. 2 core DEC Credits are available for this meeting. This event is free and there is no registration necessary. 

2025 Berry Twilight Meetings

Event Offers DEC Credits

August 6, 2025 : Berry Twilight Meeting at Fishkill Farms
5:30-7:00PM
Fishkill Farms
Hopewell Junction, NY

Join Heather Kase, CCE ENYCHP, and Anna Wallis, Cornell IPM, for seasonal updates on berry pest man-agement and IPM. 

CVP Listed Event

Niagara Region Summer Meeting, 2025

Event Offers DEC Credits

August 7, 2025
5:30 pizza, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm meeting
J. Hurtgam Farms
Ransomville, NY

We're in for a treat! Professor Steve Reiners is coming as a part of his pre-retirement speaking tour! Steve's a fantastic, down-to-earth speaker with extensive knowledge on horticultural techniques, fertility, varieties, and much more. Don't miss this event! Topics include "what exactly do NPK and other nutrients do inside the plants?", a pest/disease field walk, sweet corn variety trial, a tar spot primer, spraying best practices, and industry updates. Content will be relevant for organic, CNG, and conventional growers. 

DEC credits available:  1.25 in categories 1a, 23; 0.5 in categories 10, 21; and 0.25 CORE.

Mid Hudson Valley Hard Cider Tour

August 7, 2025
9:30am - 4pm
Starts at Treasury Cider at Fishkill Farms
Hopewell Junction, NY

Join the Cornell Hard Cider PWT and visit multiple stops throughout the Mid Hudson Valley Region.

Vegetable Twilight Meeting

August 12, 2025 : Vegetable Twilight Meeting
5-7:00 PM
Altobelli Family Farm
Kinderhook, NY

Join John Altobelli of Altobelli Family Farm, Trevor Hardy of Brookdale's Farm Supplies, CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program and other industry representatives for an interesting evening of equipment demonstrations!

Eastern New York Late Summer Orchard Meeting

Event Offers DEC Credits

August 13, 2025 : Eastern New York Late Summer Orchard Meeting
5pm - 7pm
Mourningkill Farm and Bake Shop
Ballston Spa, NY

Join us for our last get together of the summer before we're in the thick of apple harvest. At this meeting, we will tour Mourningkill Farm with manager Zac Boekeloo, and hear about his grafting program. We will then discuss late season pest management and business topics with our experts from the HVRL, Cornell AgriTech, and CCE-ENYCHP. 

Workshop: Controlling Listeria in Apple Packinghouses

August 14, 2025 : Workshop: Controlling Listeria in Apple Packinghouses
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Chazy Orchards
Chazy, NY

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.

LOF Listed Event

2025 Listeria Workshop

August 15, 2025
8:30am - 4:30pm
Wallington Fire District
Sodus, NY

Join Cornell specialists, faculty, and graduate students for an in-depth review of risk factors, best practices, and monitoring programs aimed at controlling Listeria in apple packinghouses.

LOF Listed Event

2025 Cornell Storage Workshop

August 19, 2025
8am Sign-in, 8:30am - 4:30pm
41 Lakefront Hotel, Trademark Collection by Wyndham
Geneva, NY

2025 Cornell Storage Workshop

The Cornell Storage Workshop is confirmed for Tuesday August 19 in Geneva. Agenda, registration and hotel info below.

September 2025

CVP Listed Event

Rochester Soil Health Field Day

September 16, 2025
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Foodlink Community Farm
Rochester, NY

Rochester Soil Health Field Day

Join us for hands-on soil health field day! This event is for small-scale and urban growers, gardeners and farmers, with a focus on best practices for building soil health and cover cropping, and is a part of the 2025 Soil Health and Climate Resilience Field Days. It will offer valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health.

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Upcoming Events

Worker Protection Standards Mock Inspection with the DEC

Event Offers DEC Credits

August 4, 2025 : Worker Protection Standards Mock Inspection with the DEC
Highland, NY

Join ENCHP and DEC staff for a WPS mock inspection. Attendees will split into groups and rotate between multiple stations. 2 core DEC Credits are available for this meeting. This event is free and there is no registration necessary. 

2025 Berry Twilight Meetings

Event Offers DEC Credits

July 2, 2025 : Berry Twilight Meeting at Dressel Farms
New Paltz, NY

Join Heather Kase, CCE ENYCHP, and Anna Wallis, Cornell IPM, for seasonal updates on berry pest man-agement and IPM. 


Event Offers DEC Credits

July 16, 2025 : Berry Twilight Meeting at Samascott Orchards
Kinderhook, NY

Join Heather Kase, CCE ENYCHP, and Anna Wallis, Cornell IPM, for seasonal updates on berry pest man-agement and IPM. 


Event Offers DEC Credits

August 6, 2025 : Berry Twilight Meeting at Fishkill Farms
Hopewell Junction, NY

Join Heather Kase, CCE ENYCHP, and Anna Wallis, Cornell IPM, for seasonal updates on berry pest man-agement and IPM. 

Mid Hudson Valley Hard Cider Tour

August 7, 2025
Hopewell Junction, NY

Join the Cornell Hard Cider PWT and visit multiple stops throughout the Mid Hudson Valley Region.

Announcements

Resources from CCE ENYCHP!


This website (https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/) contains our calendar of upcoming programs and registration links. For updated programmatic information, technical resources and links to newsletters please see our program blog site: https://blogs.cornell.edu/enychp/.
We also maintain the following online resources that you can view directly from these links:

• CCE ENYCH YouTube (program videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSk_E-ZKqSClcas49Cnvxkw

• CCE ENYCH Facebook (program social media): https://www.facebook.com/CCEENYCHP/

• CCE ENYCH Instagram (program social media): https://www.instagram.com/cceenychp/?hl=en