HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
Fruit and vegetable growers from
throughout Pennsylvania will be
gathering at the Hershey Lodge
and Convention Center for the
138th Annual Meeting of the State
Horticultural Association of Penn
sylvania and the 1997 Vegetable
Registration fees are required for each penon
(both husband and wives) to attend any educational
session or to enter the exhibit areas. All registrants
receive a free copy of the Conference Proceedings,
which contains summaries of most of the
presentations at the Conference.
Note that Penna. Vegetable Growers Association
(PVCA) members, their family and employees
receive substantial registration discounts For a
three day advance registration, the member's
discount pays for 525 of the S4O dues. Children
under 16 and students are admitted free.
Non-
Membtra member
One Day 525.00 $35.00
Three Days (advance) $30.00 $55.00
(walk-m) $35 00 $5500
Rooms are available at a special group rate at
the Hershey Lodge Call 717-533-3311.
A cash lunch counter is open at noontime each
day in the lobby on the lower level. Tickets for the
Tomato Awards Luncheon ($11.00) and Social
Night Buffet ($22 SO) are available in advance or at
the Conference from PVGA.
Contact the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers
Association, RR 1, Box 392, Northumberland , PA
17857, telephone 717-473-8468, for further
information, registration forms and room
reservation forms. The registration form also serves
as an application form for PVGA membership for
those interested in joining the Association
Registration forms are also available at your
county extension office
For information on the concurrent Tree Fruit
edcuational sessions, contact the Slate Horticultural
Association at 717-428-2070
For those unable to attend the Conference in
person, copies of the Proceedings are available from
PVGA for $lO.
Tuesday Morning, January 28,1997
Nigerian Room
9:00 Snap Bean Seed Quality and Precision
Seeding - Dr. Alan Taylor, NYSAES
9:30 Processing Snap Bean Production in
Ontario, Canada - Dr Ron Carton,
Asgrmo Seed Co
10:00 Industry Show and Tell
10:10 'Snap Bean Root Rot Control -Dr George
Abawi, Plant Pathology Dept, NYSAES,
Geneva, NY
10:45 Report on the Pennsylvania Vegetable
Marketing and Research Program
11:00 1996 Pea and Sweet Com Variety Trial
Results - Robert Kaufniann and William
Rogers, Brubaker Consulting, (research
funded by PVMRP & PVCA)
11:30 Update on Pea Vartelie* and Production
Tipi - Ed Kee, UnwersJy of Delaware
MARKETING ■ Cinema
9:00 Produce Auction! in the Future of the
Pcnna. Vegetable Induiliy • panel
Dr Timothy Elkner, Lancaster Co
Extension, moderator
10:00 Induelry Show and Tell
10:10 Docs Local Produce Have a Future with
Retail Chains? - Robert Hartman, Giant
Foods, Londoner MD, Richard Shefchumas,
Riverside Markets, Dußois
11:10 Developing New Markets (wholesale) -
Robert Malarazzo, RJM Marketing
Cocoa Suite 3
9:00 to 12:00 Noon -
Instructor - Dr Shelby Fleischer, Penn State Umv
'Hands on instruction on how to monitor European com
borer, com earwomt and fall armywomi and how to use
this data in making insect management deciswns in
sweet com There is no extra fee for the workshop, but
growers must sign-up in advance with PVCA as class
size is limited 14 to 6 credits)
TREE FRUITS - Trinidad Room
Separate educational sessions on all three days
9:13 ••New Sprayer Technology - Dr.
Donald Peterson, USDA, Keameysville, WV
9:43 "Pesticide Registrations; Problems and
Opportunities - John McCarthy, American
Crop Protection Association
TRADE SHOW - Aztec Room and Lower Level
Over 110 Commercial Exhibitors will be present to visit
with growers all three daps from 8 00 AM to 6.D0 PM
lexcept Thursday when they close at 2 00 PM)
Nigerian Room
12.-00 Meal and Awards Presentation - lame- Kohl
Furman Food-, Northumberland
The luncheon is being partially sfwnsored by
Pik-Rile, Rhone Poulenc, QnPonl, ISK
Biosciences and others
Tuesday Afternoon, January 28,1997
Nigerian Room
1:30 Processing Tomato Varieties -Dr
Steve Garrison, Rutgers Research (s Dev
Or,
2:00 Tomato Champion Growcn • panel
lames Kohl, Furman Foods ■ moderator
Cliff Charles, grower, Lancaster
Darwin Nissley, grower. Lancaster
William Camerer, grower, Jersey Shore
2:45 Industry Show and Tell
2:55 Maximizing Pepper Yields and Profits
- Gary Tripp, Pepper Patch Farms Inc.,
Burketville, KY
Fruit, Vegetable Growers To Meet In Hershey
Conference and Trade Show. Jan.
28-30.
The Stale Horticultural Socie
ties of Maryland and New Jersey
also meet in conjunction with their
fellow fruit growers from Penn
sylvania. In all, more than 1,500
are expected to attend the threc-
1997
PENNSYLVANIA
VEGETABLE
CONFERENCE
& TRADE SHOW
January 28-30,1997
Hershey Lodge * Convention Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Advance Program
Processing & General
Vegetables, Marketing,
Bedding Plants,
Small Fruits
Over 20
Pesticide Credits
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day event
About 120 exhibitors will dis
play the latest in equipment, sup
plies, pesticides, and varieties for
fruit and vegetable growers at the
trade show. These commercial ex
hibits will be open all three days
during the educational sessions
and during the lunch hour to allow
growers to meet with the sales reg;
resentativea.
During the conference growers,
industry specialists, and university
researchers will conduct seminars
on all phases of the tree fruit
small fruit and vegetable indus
tries. Mote than 30 pesticide ap
plicator updaate training credits
are available to growers attending
the sessions.
The sponsoring organizations
will be holding their annual busi
ness meetings during die event
and will combine for a joint buffet
and evening social on the opening
night The fruit growers auxiliary
groups have scheduled activities
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 25, 1997-Al9
during the day for spouses not in
terested in attending die regular
sessions.
The annual George Goodling
Memorial Lecture by Dr. Donald
Ricks of Michigan State Univer
sity will highlight the opening day
of the fruit sessions. He will speak
on ‘The Use of Consumer Market
Research for Apple Industry Han
ning.” Other fruit session speakers
will cover new sprayer technolo
gies. building the export market,
various aspects of peach culture,
and orchard disease, weed, and in
sect control.
The vegetable program this
year will feature full-day sessions
on marketing as well as pumpkins
and vine crops. Sessions on pro
cessing vegetables, general vege
tables, bedding plants, and small
fruits will also be offered. A spe
cial session on the “Basics of
Vegetable Production,” designed
for new growers, will be held the
fiat day.
Small fruit topics will be fea
tured in the afternoon sessions on
Jan. 29-30. Strawberry plasticul
turc, mechanical blueberry har
vesting, pick-your-own market
ing, blueberry culture pest man
agement, and crown gall in
raspberries and grapes will be
covered. A special joint session on
the morning of Jan. 30 will cover
topics on soil management and
pest resistance.
For more information on the
fruit program and registration,
contact Maureen Irvin, State
Horticultural Association of Penn
sylvania, 697 Mountain Rd.. Orr
tanna. PA 17353, (717) 677-4184.
For more information on the
vegetable program and registra
tion, contact William Troxell,
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers
Association, RR 1, Box 392,
Northumberland, PA 17857-9723.
(717) 473-8468.
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