A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday December 14, 2002
Mid-Atlantic Fruity Vegetable Convention Sets Schedule
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.) Following is the schedule
of the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention here
Feb. 4-6.
2003 Mid-Atlantic
Fruit and Vegetable Convention
Advance Program
Hcrshey Lodge and
Convention Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania
February 4-6, 2003
sponsored by
the State Horticultural
Association
of Pennsylvania
the Pennsylvania Vegetable
Growers Association
the Maryland State
Horticultural Society
and the New Jersey State
Horticultural Society
in cooperation with
Penn State Cooperative
Extension
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
and the University of Maryland
Tuesday Morning
February 4,2003
• Tree Fruit Aztec Room
9:00 Invocation - Myles Starner
9:05 President’s Address - Glenn Shaw
9:10 Honeycrisp Salvation or Problem Child? - Dr.
Rob Crassweller, Penn State Univ.
9:45 George Goodling Memorial Lecture - How to
Grow Big Gala - Dr. Peter Hirst. Purdue Univ.
10:45 Current Status of MCP~ - Dr. A. Nathan
Reed, Penn State Univ.
11:30 US Apple Association Update - Ms. Nancy
Foster, US Apple Association
• Season Extension - Nigerian Room
9:00 Cut Flower Production in Multiple Span High
Tunnels - Ralph Cramer, Elizabeth
town, PA.
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10:15 Maximizing Solar Radiation to Heat Low Tun
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11:00 Controlling Diseases in High Tunnels - Dr.
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11:30 Equipment for Use in High Tunnels - Dr. Wil
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• Labor & Legal Issues - Trinidad Room
10:00 How to Maintain Good Relations with Your
Hispanic Workers - Rafael Ramos, Human Resources
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10:30 Farm Bureau Perspective on Seasonal Workers
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11:00 PA Migrant Education Programs - Tony Deß
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11:30 Pro-Active Approaches to Labor Management
- Dennis Donio, Donio Farms, N.J.
• Vegetable School - Monarch ACE
9:00 Introduction to Produce Growing Systems -
Steve Bogash, Franklin Co. Coop. Ext.
9:30 Marketing Produce - Thomas Ford. Blair Co.
Coop. Ext.
10:15 Plant Variety Selection, Cover Crops & Crop
Rotations - James Crawford, New Morning Farm
11:00 Season Extending Techniques - Steve Moore,
Sonnewald Natural Foods
11:30 Weed Control: Methods and Practices - Dr.
Michael Orzolek, Penn State Univ,
• Sweet Com - Monarch BDF
9:00 What’s New in Sweet Corn Varieties - Ray Sa
mulis, Rutgers Coop. Ext.
9:30 Sweet Corn Genotypes - How Do They Differ? -
Blake Myers, Seigers Seed Co.
10:15 What is Sweet Corn Worth: Am I Selling It for
the Right Price - Gary Sweet, Cleveland, Ohio
11:00 Sweet Corn Populations - Optimizing Quality -
Dr. Anu Rangarajan, Cornell Univ.
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11:45 No-Till/Strip-Till Sweet Corn Production -
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• Onion, Garlic and Leeks 14 - Monarch GIK
9:00 Simply Sweet Onions - Dr. Michael Orzolek,
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9:30 Managing Onion Pests from Planting to Har
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10:30 Garlic: Varieties, High Tunnels, Mulches and
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11:15 Growing and Marketing Garlic at Piedmonte
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• Beans - Monarch HJ
9:00 What’s New in Specialty Beans - TBA
9:30 Aphid Dispersal and Virus Incidence in Snap
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10:15 Weed Management in Beans - TBA
10:45 Use of Gaucho for Snap Bean Production -
Joanne Whalen, Univ. of Delaware
11:15 Consistent Snap Bean Production - Grower
Panel
Tuesday Afternoon
February 4,2003
• Tree Fruit - Aztec Room
1:30 /Common Sense to Reduce Spray Drift - Dr.
Andrew Landers, Cornell Univ.
2:15 -Wood Borers and Their Management on
Apple and Peach - Dr. Henry Hogmire, West Virginia
Univ.
3:15 Cost of Orchard Removal/Replacement - Dr.
Jay Harper, Penn State Univ.
3:45 Use of Rapeseed for Soil Renovation in Or
chards - Dr. John Halbrendt, Penn State Univ.
• Wholesale Marketing - Nigerian Room
1:30 Food Trends - What’s Hot What’s Not - Janna
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