Mid-Atlantic Fruit , Vegetable Convention Sets Schedule
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Trout, Strategic Foodservice Mkt. Inc.
2:15 Impacts of Consumer Trends on Produce Com
modities - TBA
3:00 Consumer Consumption Trends - Joseph Lord,
St. Joseph’s Univ.
• Wine Grapes - Trinidad Room
program to be announced
• Vegetable School - Monarch ACE
1:00 Core Credit
1:30 Trickle Irrigation System Design and Management
- Steve Bogash, Franklin Co. Coop. Ext.
2:00 Managing Diseases in Vegetable Plantings -
Kathryne Everts, LESRE
3:15 Insect Management in Vegetable Plantings -
Timothy Elkner, Lancaster Co. Coop. Ext.
3:45 Crop Scheduling -Thomas Ford, Blair Co.
Coop. Ext.
• Season Extension - Monarch BDF
1:30 Mulches for the Future - Dr. Anu Rangarajan,
Cornell Univ.
2:00 What Flowers Will Grow in High Tunnels? - Dr.
E. Jay Holcomb, Penn State Univ.
2:30 Potato Production in High Tunnels - Dr. Wil
liam Lamont, Penn State Univ.
3:15 Twelve Month Vegetable Production in Unheat
ed Greenhouses - Steve Moore, Sonnewald Natural Foods
• Potatoes - Monarch GIK
1:30 Update on Nonconventional Additives on Pota
toes - Dr. Keith Kelling, Univ. of Wisconsin
2:15 Quality Oriented Potato Management - Dr. Mat
thew Kleinhenz, Ohio State Univ.
3:15 Potato Production in Ontario - Dr. Eugenia
Banks, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
4:00 Weed Control in Potatoes-including Volun
teer’s - Dale Moyer. Cornell Coop. Ext.
• Greenhouse Vegetables and Herbs Monarch HJ
1:30 Overview of Raising Greenhouse Tomatoes - Dr.
Richard Snyder, Mississippi State Univ.
2:30 Developing a IPM Program for Greenhouse
Crops - Dr. Les Schipp, Agriculture and Agri-Food Cana
da
3:15 Marketing Greenhouse Vegetables - Dr. Richard
Snyder, Mississippi State Univ.
4:00 Producing Herbs in the Greenhouse - Dr. Jim
Simon, Rutgers Univ.
Tuesday Evening
February 4,2003
• Social
6:00 Grower Reception - Chocolate Lobby
6:45 Annual Fruit and Vegetable Growers Dinner -
Nigerian Room Dinner, recognitions, awards and musical
entertainment.
Wednesday Morning
February 5,2003
you & your Crew are Invited to Our Annual
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• Tree Fruits -Aztec Room
9:00 /Pesticide Security Regulations - Phil Pitzer,
PDA
9:30 Control of Black and White Rot in Apples - Dr.
James Travis, Penn State Univ.
10:15 Flower and Spur Development in Apple - Dr.
Peter Hirst, Purdue Univ.
11:00 Global Positioning System (GPS) for Your Or
chard - Lynn Kime, Penn State Coop. Ext.
• Direct Marketing - Nigerian Room
9:00 Produce Pricing - Adding Margin - Fred Funk,
Funk’s Farm Market
10:15 Promoting Your Direct Marketing Activities
-Wen-fei Uva, Cornell Univ.
11:00 Employee Motivation and Incentive Programs
- Brenda Brown, Brown’s Orchard and Farm Market
• National Peach Council - Trinidad Room
9:00 Welcome from NPC President - Mr. John Lott
9:15 Ernie Christ Memorial Lecture; Optimizing
Peach Yields Through Training Systems - Dr. Kathryn
Taylor, Univ. of Georgia
10:00 Unique White-fleshed Peach Varieties - Jerry
Frecon Rutgers, Rutgers Coop. Ext.
10:30 Nematodes in the Stone Fruit System - Dr.
John Halbrendt, Penn State Univ.
11:15 Increasing Organic Matter in Peach Orchard
Soil - Dr. Robert Belding, Rutgers Coop. Ext.
• Greenhouse Ornamentals - Monarch ACE
9:00 New Annual Varieties - TBA
9:30 New Annual Varieties - Joseph O'Donovan,
Paul Ecke Ranch
10:15 —Fertility-TBA
11:00 Natural Ventilation - TBA
• Weed Control - Monarch BDF
9:00 Non-Chemical Weed Control - Dr. Clyde El
more, Weed Specialist, Univ. of Calif
10:00 Herbicide Rotations - Planning Ahead - Dr.
William Curran, Penn State Univ.
10:30 Safe Use of Glyphosate - Dr. Clyde Elmore,
Weed Specialist, Univ. of Calif
11:00 Avoiding the Development of Weed Resis
tance - Dr. William Curran, Penn State Univ.
11:30 /Core Credit
• Potatoes - Monarch GIK
9:00 Organic Potato Production - Dr. Matthew
Kleinhenz, Ohio State Univ.
9:30 Getting the Rocks Out—An Innovative Produc
tion System - John Twillinger, Huntsinger Farms,
10:15 Use of Manure in Potato Production
Keith Kelling, Univ. of Wisconsin
11:00 Potato Insect Management-An Update - Dr.
Joanne Whalen, Univ. of Delaware
11:30 -Update on Fungicide Seed Piece Treatments-
Dr. Steve Johnston, Rutgers Univ.
• Irrigation - Monarch HJ
9:00 Water Management: Crop Management - Dr,
Clayton Morton, T-Systems
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Performance - Dr. David Ross, Univ. of Maryland
10:45 Experience with Drip Irrigation - Grower
Panel - Moderator; Dr. William Lamont, Penn State Univ.
- Ronald Beinlich, Triple B Farms - Dennis Frey - Robert
Marvel
11:30 Designing Irrigation Systems for Uniform Ap
plication: Drip or Overhead - Dr. David Ross, Univ. of
Maryland
• Tree Fruits - Aztec Room
1:30 /What’s New in Sprayer Technology - Dr. An
drew Landers - Cornell Univ.
2:00 /The FQPA As It Is - An EPA Perspective -
TBA
2:45 Apple and Cider Quality Assurance - Dr. Luke
Laßorde, Penn State Univ.
3:15 Pa Apple Marketing Board and US Apple Associa
tion Working for You - Bonnie Riddle, Penna. Apple
Marketing Board; Nancy Foster, U.S. Apple Association
• Direct Marketing - Nigerian Room
1:30 Strictly Sweet Corn - Selling 2,500 Acres of
Sweet Corn - Gary Sweet, Cleveland, Ohio
2:30 Update on the Vegetable Marketing and Re
search Program - William Troxell, PVMRP
3:15 Entertainment Agriculture at Iron Kettle Farms
- Bonnie Jensen. Iron Kettle Farms
• National Peach Council - Trinidad Room
1:30 Update on Plum Pox Virus- - Dr. Ruth Welliv
er, Pa Dept, of Agriculture
2:00 Costs and Consequences of Different Pest Man
agement Programs in Peaches - Dean Polk, Rutgers
Coop. Ext.
2:45 Can We Grow Peaches Without OP Insecti
cides? - Dr. Peter Shearer, Rutgers Univ.
3:30 Skinny Peach Trees - Dr. Ralph Scorza, USDA,
Kearneysville, WV
4:05 Annual Business Meeting for National Peach
Council
• Greenhouse Ornamentals - Monarch ACE
1:30 New Perennial Varieties - John Bell, Yoder
Bros./Greenleaf
2:00 New Perennial Varieties - TBA
2:30 -New Fungicide and Insecticide Products -
TBA
3:15 Dollars and Sense ot Growing -
Brumfield, Rutgers Univ.
4:00 Selling More with the Garden Select Program -
Dr. Kathleen Kelley, Penn State Univ.
• Small Fruit - Monarch BDF
- Dr.
1:30 An Overview of British Soft Fruit (Berry) Pro
duction - John Berry, Haygrove Co., Ledbury, United
Kingdom
2:15 Strawberry and Bramble High Tunnel Produc
tion - Fred Funk, Funk’s Farm Market - Bryan Butler,
Univ. of Maryland - Kathleen Demchak, Penn State
Univ.
3:30 /-Fumigation Options in Small Fruit Production
10:00 Drip
Tape Charac
teristics and
Wednesday Afternoon
February 5,2003
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Dr. Robin