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PROGRAM
1995 Pennsylvania Vegetable Conference and Trade Show
sponsored by The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers’ Association
in cooperation with
The Pennsylvania State University—College of Agricultural Sciences
136th Annual Meeting of the State Horticultural
Association of Pennsylvania
In conjunction with the Horticulture Societies of Maryland and
New Jersey and In codperatlon with the Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Rutgers Cooperative Extension Systems
Tuesday Morning, January 31,1995
•SSING VEGETABLES-Nioerian Room
Presiding; Robert Pollock Armstrong Co. Ext.
9:00 ‘Update on Pesticide Storage Building Require
ments—Donald Daum, Penn State University (1 core)
9:30 Irrigation for Processing Tomatoes — Dr. Craig
Storiie, Rutgers Research and Development Center
10:25 Corn Borer Control on Beans and Com — Dr.
Galen Dively, University of Maryland (1 cat. 3)
11:00 Update on Snap Bean Research — Dr. Mikchael
Dickson, New York State Ag. Experiment Station
11 ;30 ‘The Effect of Ridomil on Green Peas, Snap
Beans, and Tomatoes— Dr. Steve Johnston, Rut
gers Research and Development Center (I cat. 3)
Presiding: Richard Pallman, PVGA First Vice President
9:00 ‘Disease Control in Cole Crops— Dr. Thomas
Zitter, Cornell University (1 cat. 3)
9:30 Staked and Pruned Tomatoes vs. Neither —Dr.
Douglas Sanders, North Carolina State University
10:20 Cost Analysis for Stake-Grown Tomatoes — Dr.
Robin Brumfield, Rutgers University
11:00 Use of Colored Mulches— Dr. Michael Orzotek,
Penn State University
11:30 Status of Recycling Plastic Mulch— James
Garthe, Penn State University
Cocoa Suite 3
Instructor: Steve Spangler, Penn State University
9:00-12:00 ‘Hands on beginning instruction on how
to monitor European corn borer, corn earworm
and fall armyworm and how to use this data in
making insect management decisions in sweet
corn. There is no extra fee for the workshop, but
growers must sign up in advance with PVGA as
class size is limited. (6 cat. 3)
TOMATO AWARDS LUNCHEON— Nigerian Room
Presiding: James Kohl, Furman Foods, Northum
berland
12:00 Noon Invocation and Meal (ticket required)
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ITS —Trinidad Room
Presiding: Stanley Brown—SNAP Secretary
9:00 Invocation & President’s Address—Kent Shel-
We Carry A Complete Line Of
Fruit and Vegetable
Packaging Materials
CALL 1-800-791-2474
(AGRI)
Please stop by and visit us
at the 1995 PA Vegetable Conference
Hershey , PA
Agri-Supply Co.
717-656-4370
and the
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11A Industrial Circle Lancaster, PA 17601
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hammer, SNAP President
9:15 New Chemistries and Their Role In Fruit Pro
duction — Dr. Jonathan Long, Rohm and Haas
Company
9:35 A Changing Insecticide Chemistry—What to Do—
Dr. Larry Hull, Penn State University
10:15 ‘Fungicide Chemistry and usage in the
Orchard — Dr. Kenneth Hickey, Penn State Uni
versity(l cat. 2)
10:45 ‘History, Present and Future Herbicides — Dr.
Bradley Majek, Rutgers Research and Develop-
ment Center (1 cat. 2)
11:25 George Goodling Memorial Lecture: ‘Control of
Altemaria and Necortic Leaf Blotch—Or. Turner
Sutton, North Carolina State University (1 cat. 2)
WOMEN’S AUXILIARY— Gonna Suite 8
9:00 -12:00 Registration, Show and Tell Fellow
ship (cost $5 pre-registration fee)
*lndicates that the topic qualifies attendees for pesticide
applicator update training credits. The number
and type of credits are shown in parentheses after
the speaker’s name.
REMEMBER TO VISIT THE EXHIBITORS ON BOTH
THE UPPER AND LOWER LEVELS OF THE
CONVENTION CENTER. They are open during
all the sessions and during the lunch hour.
A cash Lunch Buffet is available in the Lower Level Lobby
each day.
Tuesday Afternoon, January 31, 1995
PROCESSING VEGETABLES —Nigerian Room
Presiding; Eric Oesteriing, Westmoreland County Extension
1:30 Grower Experiences with Carousel Planters—
panel
Dwight Hess, Furman Foods, Marietta, moderator
2:00 Production of Stress Tolerance Tomato Trans-
plants— Joseph Ciardi, Penn State University
2.50 ‘What’s New in Vegetable Weed Control?—Dr.
Bradley Majek, Rutgers Research and Develop
ment Center (1 cat. 3)
3:30 PA Vegetable Marketing and Research Board
Update— Chairman
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Presiding: Scott Gulser, Bucks County Ext.
1:30 Soil Organic Matter Amendment and Veg
etable Crop Productivity— Dr. Kennoth Steffen,
Penn State University
2:00 ‘Managing Beneficial Inaecta— Dr. Shared
Phatak, University of Georgia (1 cat. 3)
2:40 Certified Crop Adviaor Program In Pennsylva
nia—Steve Spangler, Penn State University
3:10 ‘Growing Food Cropa Organically— Made Dorn
streich, Branch Creek Farm, Perkasie (1 cat. 3)
3:40 ‘Assuring Safe F00d...8y Monitoring
Residues— Dr. Howard Nields, Penna. Dept, of
Agriculture (1 core)
4:10 Is ICM Profltsble?— Dr. Sharad Phatak, Universi
ty of Georgia
Joint Fruit and Vegetable Session
Presiding: Tonya White, Knouse Frultlands, Arendtsville
1:30 Regulations and Complying—An Intro-
1:40 Wages, Workman’s Compensation Regula
tions— Sharon Hughes, National Council of Agri
cultural Employers
2:10 Immigration and Naturalization Laws— Diana
Rarig
2:30 Unemployment Labor Contracts —Libby White
ly Virginia Horticultural Association
2:50 Questions and Discussion —Kail Brown, Penna.
Farm Bureau
3:25 A New Workmen’s Compensation Program
from Dairylea Cooperative —Thomas Finley,
Worker's Agriservices and Perry Goodrich,
Dairylea
Nigerian Room
6:30 Invocatiqn and Meal (ticket required)
Entertainment: The Alpiners
Specializing in vegetable Growing Supplies & Equipment.
Call or write for your free 1995 Catalog.
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■Trinidad Room
ductlon— Kart Brown, Penna., Farm Bureau
Tuesday Evening, January 31,1995
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