Three Da Tuesday, January 27,1998 PROCESSING & GENERAL Meeting the Customer's Request for IPM Certified Tomatoes * Tomato Disease Identification and Controls Fertility and Ethrel Timing and Rates as They Relate to Tomato Peeling Growing the Best Field Tomato Transplants Using Intelligent Media ** How Insect Populations Grow * Using IPM Methods to Grow Toma DIRECT & GENERAL MARKETING Value - Added or Speciality Vegetable Products Setting Up Produce Displays and Signs - Ransom Blakely, Marketing Consultant Larae, Successful Farm Markets - panel Llnvilla Orchards, Sinte's Orchards, Soregel Orchards Consumer Trends and Attitudes 5-A-Day - Working for Youl Effectively Working with the Print Media What Supermarkets Want from local Growers - Charles Brenneman, Weis Markets Using Bumble Bees for Pollination * Using Beneficial Insects for Pest Control in Greenhouse Tomatoes and Peppers Managing Greenhouse Tomato Operations in Ontario and Penna Tony G Mastronardi and Boyd Mertz The Latest Techniques in Hydroponics and Cucumber and Lettuce Production - Dr Tom Papadopoulos, AAFC, Ontario HIGH TUNNELS AND ROW COVERS Latest Advances In Materials and Techniques for High Tunnels and Row Covers - Dr Otho Wells, University of New Hampshire Cool Season Vegetables in Unheated Greenhouses Growing Specialty Vegetables Under High Tunnels POTATOES Seed Piece Quality, Spacing and Source Fertilizer and Water Management for Quality Potatoes * Managing Diseases'and Insects Weed Control Update Vine Killing, Harvesting, Handling and Marketing - Specialty Potatoes for Your Markets Wednesday, January 28,1998 bedding Plants Forcing Bulb Crops for Special Holidays Throughout the Year • Quality of Biological Controls in the Greenhouse Greenhouse Design Considerations New Greenhouse Climate Control Plastic Films Panises for Fall - Your Customers Will Love Them The Best Annuals for Pennsylvania Perennials - What are Customers Looking For 9 The Best Horticultural Lighting Fixtures * Why, When and How to Fumigate Using Trickle Irrigation & Fertigafion Effectively How to Mimmize and/or Use Appropriate Tillage * Basic Vegetable Disease Management Innovative, Environmentally-Fnendly Machinery to Minimize Labor Trade Show With Q\ht 120 Exhibitors * Oi m ofEducatlohalSesslons - Offering Over 20 Pesticide Credits itoes and Soil Degradation SWEET CORN * Monitoring Sweet Corn Insect Pests (4 credits) * Current Status of Bf Transgenic Corn Varieties That Work For Direct Market * Sweet Corn IPM Practices in the Northeast * Deer, Raccoon and Bird Damage Control * Controlling Rust in Late Plantings New Brambles from New York Bramble Breeding at USDA in Beltsville New Brambles from the Maryland SUSTAINABLE GROWING (evening session) What is Sustainable Ag? Trend or Fad? New Generation Cropping Systems Why We Grow Specialty vegetables Market Opportunities for Organic Produce Thursday, January 29,1998 WEED CONTROL ** Modes of Action for Common Veg Herbicides * How to Control Escape or Resistant Weeds What the Noxious Weed Law Can Do For You * General Cultural and Tillage Methods for Controlling Weeds in Vine Crops * Identifying Your Worst Weeds * Cultivators - Still An Important Tool * Non-chemical Weed Control Methods -Dr Rick Bonano, University of Massachusetts * New Changes in Chemical Weed Control ** Clearing New Pesticides for Vegetable Crops CUT AND DRIED FLOWERS AND HERBS Marketing Dried Flowers Producing and Marketing Field Grown Cut Flowers Intensive Growing and Retailing of Fresh and Dried Flowers - Nellie Call Edible Flowers - Jill Ann Williams, Sudden Elegance Challenges in Herb Production and Handling BRAMBLES Pnmocane Fruiting Raspberry Cultivars Economics of Red Raspberry Production Greenhouse Raspberry Production Analyzing Your Marketing Practices Are You Planning For The Long Term? * Standard Pest Control Practices * Alternative Pest Control Practices Family Business Transfers and the New Tax Law Getting the Most from Your Teenage Workers - Nonne Larson, Pnvate Consultant Dealing With Problem Customers Practical Uses of the Computer In Direct Marketing * signifies topics that qualify for category pesticide applicator license update training credits. ** signifies topics that qualify for core pesticide applicator license update training credits more Information on tbe program and registration fees fiact; •nnsylvania Vegetable Growers Association ’ 1, Box 947, Richfield, PA 17086 ephone - 717’694~3596 [•ln Regulation* Welcome • bn* Day $3B, TWo or Tht«* Day* SSS. 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She plans to seek work in agribusiness, and work part time mi the family farm," While exploring further education opportunities. Shawn Zimmerman Shawn D. Zim merman, 17, son of David and Ruthann Zimmerman, of New | Holland, has served as chaplain and vice president of com munity development with the Grassland FFA Chapter. He has served on the chapter Community Service a.— . Relations committees. Hhe oversaw five committees while vice president His pro jects are work experience at Yoder's Country Market, and doing registered dog breeding. He won count/ and regional speaking awards, county record keeping (Turn to Page 10)
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