E6-Grower & Marketer, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 1,2003
Mid-Atlantic Fruit, Vegetable Convention Feb . 4-6
(Continued from Page E 5)
11:30 Update on Fungi
cide Seed Piece Treatments -
Dr. Steve Johnston, Rutgers
Univ,
• Irrigation - Monarch HJ
9:00 Water Management:
Crop Management - Dr. Clay
ton Morton, T-Systems
10:00 Drip Tape Charac
teristics and Performance -
Dr. David Ross, Univ. of Mar
yland
10:45 Experience with
Drip Irrigation ' - Grower
Panel - Moderator: Dr. Wil
liam Lamont, Penn State
Univ. - Ronald Beinlich, Tri
ple B Farms - Dennis Frey -
Robert Marvel
11:30 Designing Irriga
tion Systems for Uniform Ap
plication: Drip or Overhead -
Dr. David Ross, Univ. of Mar
yland
Wednesday Afternoon
February 5,2003
• 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 - TEA
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 Fos
ter, U.S. Apple Association
• Direct Marketing - Nige
rian Room
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Ohio
2:30 Update on the Vege
table Marketing and Research
Program - William Troxell,
PVMRP
3:15 Entertainment Agri
culture at Iron Kettle Farms -
Bonnie Jensen, Iron Kettle
Farms
• National Peach Council -
Trinidad Room
1:30 Update on Plum Pox
Virus- - Dr. Ruth Welliver,
Pa. Dept, of Agriculture
2:00 Costs and Conse
quences of Different Pest
Management Programs in
Peaches - Dean Polk, Rutgers
Coop. Ext.
2:45 Can We Grow
Peaches Without OP Insec
tides? - Dr. Peter Shearer,
Rutgers Univ.
3:30 Skinny Peach Trees
Dr. Ralph Scorza, USDA,
Keameysville, WV
4:05 Annual Business
Meeting for National Peach
Council
• Greenhouse Ornamentals
Monarch ACE
1:30 New Perennial Vari
eties - John Bell, Yoder Bros./
Greenleaf
2:00 New Perennial Vari
eties - TBA
2:30 New Fungicide and
Insecticide Products - TBA
3:15 Dollars and Sense of
Growing Dr. Robin Brum
field, Rutgers Univ.
4:00 Selling More with
the Garden Select Program -
Dr. Kathleen Kelley, Penn
State Univ.
• Small Fruit - Monarch
BDF
1:30 An Overview of Brit
ish Soft Fruit (Berry) Produc
tion - John Berry, Haygrove
Co., Ledbury, United King
dom
2:15 Strawberry and
Bramble High Tunnel Produc
tion - Fred Funk, Funk’s
Farm Market - Bryna Butler,
Univ. of Maryland - Kathleen
Demchak, Penn State Univ.
3:30 /-Fumigation Op
tions in Small Fruit Produc
tion - Dr. John Halbrendt,
Penn State Univ.
4:00 New and Impending
Bramble Releases from the
Md./N.J./Va./Wis. Breeding
Program - Dr. Harry Swartz,
Univ. of Maryland
• Potatoes - Monarch GIK
1:30 Calcium Study
Using Atlantic and Reba Vari
eties - Dr. Melvin Henninger,
Rutgers Univ.
2:00 Update on Man
agement Strategies for Late
Blight and Other Diseases -
Dr. Barbara Christ, Penn
State Univ.
2:30 Influencing Chip
ping Quality in the Field - Jo
seph Sieczka, Cornell Univ.
3:15 Herr Potato Chip
Company-Looking Toward
the Future - Eugene Herr,
Herr Foods Inc.
4:00 The Challenge of
Marketing Specialty Potatoes
- Dr. William Lament Jr.,
Penn State Univ.
• Wildlife Management -
Monarch HJ
1:30 Fencing for Deer
Control - Ron Stout, Pennsyl
vania Game Commission
2:00 Managing Ground
hogs - John Mason, Mason
Farms
2:30 Bird, and Canadian
Geese Control - Jason Suck
ow, USDA APHIS
3:15 Animal Repellants-
Do They Work - Gary San Ju
lian, Penn State Univ.
Wednesday Evening
February 5,2003
• Social
5:00 Pennsylvania Apple
Grower Reception - Cocoa
Suites 3, 4 & 5 hosted by the
Pennsylvania Apple Market
ing Board
7:00 Ice Cream Social -
Great Lobby - open to all,
hosted by the Pennsylvania
Vegetable Growers Associa
tion
Thursday Morning
February 6,2003
• Tree Fruits - Trinidad
Room
9:00 -Control of Pear
Diseases - Dr. James Travis,
Penn State Univ.
9:30 Organic Asian Pears
- Dr. Chris Walsh, Univ. of
Maryland
10:15 Woolly Apple
Aphid Biology and Manage
ment- - Dr. Henry Hogmire,
West Virginia Univ.
10:45 Deer Control - A
New Jersey Perspective - Dr.
David Drake, Rutgers Coop.
Ext
11:30 Bitter Pit Calcium
Deficiency or Plant Bug Dam
age - Dr. Mark Borwn, USDA
KeameySville
• Pumpkins -
Room
9:00 Seventeen Acres of
Pumpkins from Transplants -
Diane Chaunccy, Chauncey,
Chauncey Farm Supply
9:30 -Managing Phy
tophtora and Other Diseases
in Pumpkins - Dr. Alan Mac-
Nab, Penn State Univ.
10:15 Comparison of
High vs. Low-Input Pumpkin
Production Dr. Robert Pre
cheur, Ohio State Univ.
11:00 Microdochium on
Pumpkins - Dr. Mac Reidel,
Ohio State Univ.
11:30 Update on the
Pennsylvania Vegetable Mar
keting and Research Program
- William Troxell, PVMRP
11:45 Effective Pollina
tion in Pumpkins - Dr. Chris
Wein, Cornell Univ.
• National Peach Council •
Trinidad Room
9:00 Topic and Speaker
TEA
9:30 Peach Thinning -
Grower Panel - William Tiet
jen (moderator), Rutgers
Coop. Ext • David Benner,
Pa. - Mark Rice, Pa. - Ken
neth Kaufinann, Pa. Dennis
Donio, N.J. - Steve Balder
ston, Md. - Robert Best, N. J.
10:45 Efficient Water
Management in Peach Or
chards - Dr. Kathryn Taylor,
Univ. of Georgia
11:30 Precision Forecast
ing for Insects and Diseases -
Dr. Joseph Russo, Zedex Inc.
• Tomato Pest Manage
ment - Monarch ACE
9:00 -Why Fungicides
Work or Fail - Dr. Mac Rie
del, Ohio State Univ.
Nigerian
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