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T»PF FRUITS - Trinidad Room
830 “How to Calibrate Sprayers and When -Ed Starzec,
Hard/ Inc.
900 ‘Grower Use of Site Specific Weather and Pest
Forecasts - Dr. Carl FeUand, Penn State University
930 Industry Show A Tell
945 ‘Practical IPM on Peaches - Dr. Dean Polk, Rutgers
Cooperative Extension
10 15 Southeastern Peach Industry -Is it Healthy and
Where Is It Headed? - Charles Walker, National Peach
Council
10 45 Industry Show it Tell
11 00 ‘Phytopthora Research - New Ideas and
Techniques on Control - Dr. Norwan LaLance (te,
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
11 00 ‘Brown Rot Research - New Ideas and Techniques on
Control • Dr. Kenneth Hickey, Penn Stole University
LUNCH - Lobby
12 00 Cash Lunch Buffet (on your own)
Wednesday Afternoon, January 28, 1998
SWEET CORN - Cocoa Suites 4 & 5
130 Current Status of Bt Transgenic Corn - TBA
200 Varieties That Work For My Direct Market
Situations - Robert Baronner, oaronner Farms
230 Industry Show and Tell
240 ‘Survey Results - Sweet Corn IPM Practices In the
Northeast - Dr Shelby Fleischer, Penn State University
310 ‘Deer, Racoon and Bird Damage Control in Sweet
Corn - Jack Tornce, Off-Limits Crop Protection
340 'Controlling Rust in Late Plantings -Dr Alan McNab,
Penn State University
400 PVGA Annual Business Meeting - Cocoa Suite 5
ISDDING PLANTS - Cocoa Suites 2 & 3
130 Pansies for Fall • Your Customers Will Love Them
- Dr, lames Nou, Ball Seed Co.
150 The Best Annuals for Pennsylvania -Dr Robert
Berghage, Penn State University
230 Industry Show and Tell
240 Perennials - What are Customers Looking Fori -
Dr James Nou, Ball Seed Co.
320 The Best Horticultural Lighting Fixtures - Or.
William Roberts, Rutgers University
400 PVGA Annual Business Meeting - Cocoa Suite 5
BRAI
130 New Brambles from New York - Kevin Maloney. NYS
Ag Exp. Station
215 Bramble Breeding at USDA In Beltsville: Past,
Present and Potential - Dr Stanley Hokonson, USDA
ARS Fruit Lab, Beltsville, MD
225 Industry Show and Tell
245 New Brambles from the Maryland Cooperative
Bramble Breeding Program - Dr Harry Swartz,
University of Maryland
330 Questions and Discussion with Speakers
400 PVGA Annual Business Meeting - Cocoa Suite 5
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2:20
2:30
3:40
4:45
Wednesday Evening, January 28, 1998
JSTAINABLE GROWING - Trinidad Boom
7.00 What Is Sustaniable Ag? Trend or Fad?
7:30 New Generation Cropping Systems - Steve Groff,
Grower, Hoftwoo d
8:00 Why We Grow Specialty Vegetables - TBA
8:00 Market Opportunities Far Organic Produce
9:00 Round Robin Discussion - Dr. Peter Ferre tti, Penn State
University, moderator
9:30 Adjourn
RELAXATION
Pool - open until midnight
7-00 Raspberry Variety Taste Testing - Nigerian Room
8:00 PVGA Hospitality Suite
8:30 Penn State Horticulture Alumni Group
Horticulture Alumni, friends and speakers welcome ■ ends at
10 30
Thursday Morning, January 29, 1998
WEED CONTROL - Cocoa Suites 2 » 3
9:00 'Modes of Action for Common Vegetable
Herbicides - Dr. Ed Beste, University of Maryland
9-30 *How to Control Escape or Resistant Weeds -Dr
Nathan Hortwig, Penn Slate University
10 00 Industry Show & Tell
10 10 What You Should Know About the Noxious Weed
Law- Wilbur Mountain, Penna Dept ofAg.
10 40 'General Cultural and Tillage Methods for
Controlling Weeds in Vine Crops - Dr Michael
Orzolek, Penn Stole University
Cargill Animal Nutrition
Bill Sutliff
Cumberland Co., PA
Perry County, PA
Frederick County, MD
717-776-0174
Lebanon, Pa Office
1-800-613-4459
lUIIS - Tnmdad Room
Is There a White Peach in Your Future? - Dr Joseph
Goffredo, Rutgers University
Green Manure Crops for Nematode Control - Dr.
John Halbrendt, Penn State University
Industry Show and Tell
New Ideas In Packing, Shipping, Promoting, and
Merchandising Peaches in 1997 - Charles Walker,
National Peach Council
Peach Marketing Panel - What Worked, What Old
Not -
Jerry Frecon, Rutgers Extension (moderator)
John Lott, PA grower
Jack Bream, PA grower
Douglas Zee, NJ grower
Genie DeCou, NJ grower
Anthony Curclo - NJ grower
New Jersey and Maryland Horticulture Society
Business Meetings
11 20 'Weed Identification (Hands-on- with Potted
Plants) - TBA
Cocoa Suites 4 & 5
900 Marketing Dried Flowers - Nancy Lmvill Dole, Ltnvtlla
Orchards, Inc.
930 Producing and Marketing Field Crown Cut Flowers
- Thomas Ford, Fulton Co Agent
10 00 Industry Show and Tell
10 10 Intensive Growing and Retailing of Fresh and
Dried Flowers - Nellie Call, Flower Fields
10 40 Edible Flowers from Garden to Palate - Cathy
Wilkinson Barash, author
Jim Widmann
Southern Lancaster Co., PA
Southern Chester Co., PA
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Walkersville, MD Office
1-800-833-3372
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11:20 Challenges in Herb Production and Handling
(Including Drying) - Dr. Lyle Craker, University of Mass
IRAMBI
Nigerian Room
900 Primocane Fruiting Raspberry Cultlvars: Report of
a 4-Year Trial - Dr. Barbara Goulart, Penn S’ote University
9.30 Are You Making Money? Economics of Red
Raspberry Production -Or Jayson Harper, Penn Slate
University
10:15 Industry Show and Tell
10 25 Greenhouse Raspberry Production— An Alternative
Growing System - Dr. Morvin Pntts, Cornell University
11 05 Analyzing Your Marketing Practices: Are You
Planning For The Long Term? - Dr. Rob In Brumfield,
Rutgers University
11:35 Questions and Discussion with Speakers
lIS - Trinidad Room
* Adjuvants - Matching Chemistries - Or. William
Curran, Penn Store University
Apple Variety Trials - Dr Duane Greene. University of
TREE FRUI
8 30
9 00
Mossochusetts
Industry Show* Tell
What's Happening with Agricultural Labor Issues
Around the Country • Barbara Mulhern. (Sampler's Inc
INS and Farm Workers: Is H-2A In Your Future? -
Libby Whitley, Virginia State Horticultural Society/fiAARA
Industry Show A Tell
Growing and Marketing Oriental Fears (A Panel)
Dr. Christopher Walsh, University of Maryland (moderator)
Victor Pnapi, Maryland grower
A) Pong, Maryland grower
Brad Hollabaugh, Penna grower
Dr Robert Clark, New Jersey grower
♦New Chemistries (or Tree Fruit Insect A Mite
Control - Or Lorry Hull, Penn Slote University
9 00
9 40
10 05
10-20
10:30
11.30
LUNCH - Lobby
12.00 Cash Lunch Buffet (on your am)
Thursday Afternoon, January 29, 1998
WEED CONTROL - Cocoa Su'tes 2 & 3
1-30 ‘Cultivators - Still An Important Tool -Dr Mark Van
Cessel, University of Delaware
210 ‘Nonchemical Weed Control Methods for
Vegetables - Dr Rick Bonano, University of Massachusetts
250 ‘New Changes in the Chemical Weed Control
Industry - Dr Rick Schmenk, Novartis
330 “Clearing New Pesticides For Vegetable Crops -
Dr Rick Bonano, University of Massachusetts
400 Adjourn
130 Family Business Transfers Under the New Tax Law
-James R. Clark, James i Clark, LLP
215 Gettins the Most from Your Teenage Workers -
Narine Larson, Private Consultant
300 Dealing With Problem Customers - Kathie Ingoha,
The Son Ton
330 Practical Uses of the Computer in Direct
Marketinf - David Hodge, Highland Orchards, Inc
400 Adjourn
■TURE
- Cocoa Suites 4 & 5
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