A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 27, 2003
Mid-Atlantic Fruity Vegetable Convention Theme:
‘Charting Your Course For 2004’
(Continued from Page A3O)
Ghidiu. Rutgers Coop. Ext.
11:30 -Update on Fungicides
Available for Control of Potato
Diseases - Dr. Thomas Zitter,
Cornell Univ.
Tree Fruit - Aztec Room
9:00 /Proposed Penna. Pesti
cide Regulation Changes and
You - David Scott, PA Dept, of
Agriculture
9:30 -Host Preferences of
Oriental Fruit Moth: What Have
We Learned - Clayton Myers,
Penn State Univ.
10:15 -Weed Control in
Apples and Pears - Dr. Bradley
Majek, Rutgers Univ.
11:00 Designing an Irrigation
System - Dr. Albert Jarrett. Penn
State Univ.
National Peach Council - Trin
idad Room
9:15 High Density Peach
Plantings (grower panel) - Jerry
Frecon, Rutgers Coop. Ext.
(moderator): Henry Chiles, VA;
Rolf DeCou, NJ; Chris Baugher,
Adams Co. Nursery; Ed Weaver,
Weaver’s Orchards
10:00 -MCP/Retain on Stone
Fruit - Dr. Robert Belding, Rutg
ers Univ.
10:30 Basic Peach Orchard
Nutrition - Dr. Scott Johnson,
Univ. of California
11:30 -Insecticide Resistance
in Oriental Fruit Moth from
Pennsylvania - Dr. Greg Krawc
zyk, Penn State Univ.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Afternoon Sessions
Direct Marketing -
Room
1:30 Developing a Roadmap
to Success - To Be Announced
2:15 Selling Your Produce
For What’s Worth (grower
panel)
3:15 PA Vegetable Marketing
and Research Program Update -
William Troxell, PVMRP
3:30 Extending Your Mar
keting Season - To Be An
nounced
Water - Monarch ACE
1:30 Soil Water Management
- Douglas Staley, Irrometer Co.,
Riverside, CA
2:00 Automation of Drip Irri
gation - William Wolfram, Toro
Ag Irrigation, Accomac, VA
2:45 Uniformity of Irrigation
Systems - William Wolfram,
Toro Ag Irrigation
3:15 Well Location and Man
agement - Thomas McCarty.
Penn State Coop. Ext.
4:30 PVGA Annual Meeting
- Monarch LN
Small Fruit Cultural Methods -
Monarch BDF
1:30 To Be Announced
2:15 -Organic Methods for
Highbush Blueberry Production -
Dr. William Sciarappa, Rutgers
Univ.
3:00 Maryland Strawberry
Plasticulture Systems: Floating
Row Covers, Tunnels and Frost
Protection - Dr. Michael Newell,
Univ. ot Maryland
3:45 Economics of High Tun
nel Bramble Production - Dr.
Jayson Harper, Penn State Univ.
4:00 “Can We Talk?” - Open
Discussion Time on successes
and problems in small fruit pro
duction in the Mid-Atlantic re
gion during the past year
Processing Tomatoes - Mon
arch GIK
1:30 /Study Results on the
Use of Personal Protective Equip
ment - David Scott, Penna. Dept,
ot Agriculture
2:00 -Showcasing Ne\* and
(mprosed Products foi Crop Pro
tection- Donald Ganske, DuPont
2:45 Variety Update - What
Worked and What Didn't and
What’s in the Pipeline- Kenneth
Martin, Furman Foods, and Dr.
Stephen Garrison, Rutgers Univ.
3:15 What’s on the Horizon
for New or Better Production
Methods? Planting - Irrigation -
Harvesting - Pik-Rite, Inc.,
Lewisburg
4:30 PVGA Annual Meeting
- Monarch LN
Potato - Monarch HJ
1:30 -Results of 2003 Potato
Seedpiece Treatment Study- Dr.
Melvin Henninger, Rutgers Univ.
2:00 -Breeding Potatoes for
Disease Resistance - Dr. Barbara
Christ, Penn State Univ.
2:30 -Monitoring Resistance
in Colorado Potato Beetle Popu
lations- Dr. Galen Dively, Univ.
of Maryland
3:15 Michigan State Univ.
Potato Breeding Program - Dr.
David Douches, Michigan State
Univ.
4:00 Snyder’s of Berlin/
Pro-Fac-The Cooperative Experi
ence- Daniel Sharretts, Snyders
of Berlin
4:30 PVGA Annual Meeting
- Monarch LN
Tree Fruits - Aztec Room
1:30 Frost Protection in Tree
Fruit - Mary Conklin, Penn State
Coop. Ext.
2:00 /The FQPA and the
Registration of Pesticides for
Minor Crops - Ms. Pat Chimino,
Environmental Protection Agen
cy
2:45 Pruning and Training
Systems Impact on Processing
Apples - Dr. Robert Crassweller,
Penn State Univ.
3:15 Cost of Orchard
Removal/Replacement - Dr. Jay
son Harper, Penn State Univ.
4:00 New Jersey State Hort.
Soc. Business Meeting - Tower
Suite 1, Maryland State Hort.
Soc. Business Meeting - Cocoa
Suite 2
National Peach Council - Trin
idad Room
Nigerian
1:30 Peach Market Perspec
tive: 2003 Season - John Lott.
Bear Mountain Orchards
1:50 -Problems with Con
trolling Insect Pests on Peaches -
Dr. Peter Shearer, Rutgers Univ.
2:35 Peach Rootstock Evalu
ations in the NC-140 -Dr.
Christopher Walsh, Univ. of
Maryland
3:50 National Peach Council
Annual Business Meeting
Wednesday Evening,
January‘2B,2oo4
Social
5:00 Reception for all Penn
sylvania Apple Growers - Cocoa
Suites 3,4,5 - Hosted by the Penn
sylvania Apple Marketing Pro
gram
7:00 Ice Cream Social tor all
Convention Attendees - Great
Lobby - Hosted by the Pennsylva
nia Vegetable Growers Associa
tion
7:00 Cut Flower Discussion
Session - an open session with
light refreshments for cut flower
growers to discuss issues of mu
tual concern and to share tech
niques and experiences.
Thursday, January 29,2004
Morning Sessions
Sweet Corn School - Nigerian
Room
9:00 Sweet Corn Breeding:
What’s on the Horizon? - Wes
Houghton, Syngenta Seed Co.,
Naples, FL
9:30 Early Sweet Corn Pro
duction Using Plasticulture - Dr.
Michael Orzolek, Penn State
Univ.
10:15 -Insect Management
in Sweet Corn - Dr. Shelby
Fleischer, Penn State Univ.
11:00 No-till Sweet < orn
Production - Steve Groff, Grow
er. Cedar Meadow' Farms, Holt
sville
11:30 -Disease Identification
and Control in Sweet Corn -
Robert Mulrooney, Univ. Dela
ware
Bedding Plants-
ACE
8:45 Color Bowls
Smith, Quality Greenhouses
9:30 -INSV and Thrips
Stanton Gill, Univ. of Maryland
10:30 Managing pH in Grow
ing Media - Dr. Thomas Weiler,
Cornell Univ.
11:15 Culture of Primula -
Lauren Cammiso, Penn State
Univ., Culture of Gerbera - In
grid Hersh, Penn State Univ.,
Culture of Hyacinths - Jessica
Ocel, Penn State Univ., Culture
of Streptocarpus - Jonathan
Phillips, Penn State Univ., Cul
ture of Poinsettia - Joseph Stitt,
Penn State Univ.
Strawberries - Monarch BDF
9:00 ~ Methyl Bromide Alter
natives Research for Strawberry
Production - Dr. Jack Norton (in
vited), IR-4
9:30 -Integrated Manage
ment of Gray Mold and Anthrac
nose on Strawberries - Dr. Frank
Louws, North Carolina State
Univ.
10:30 The Rutgers Strawber
ry Breeding Program - Dr. Gojko
Jelenkovic, Rutgers Univ.
11:00 -Strawberry Weed
Management Update - Dr. Rich
ard Bonanno, Univ. of Massa
chusetts
11:30 Matted-Row Strawber
ry Cultivar Trial Results - Kath
leen Demchak, Penn State Univ.
Increasing the Profit of Your
Cut Flower Enterprise - Monarch
GIK
8:00 Getting Started in Cut
Flowers - Robert Ambrose,
Ridgeview Acres Farm, Stahls
town
9:00 Cut Flower Varieties -
Rudolf Sterkel, Ernst Benary of
America
9:45 Florists Want - Steve
Bogash, Penn State Coop. Ext.
10:30 Fall-Winter-Spring
Cut Flower Production and Mar
keting: David Dowling, Farm
house Flowers, Brookeville, MD
11:30 2003 Pennsylvania
Sunflower Trials - Steve Bogash,
Penn State Coop. Ext.
Specialty Vegetables
arch HJ
9:00 Specialty Melons - Steve
Bogash. Penn State Coop. Ext.
9:30 The World of Specialty
Vegetables - Cris West, Frieda’s
New Holland Vegetable Day Jan. 19
NEW HOLLAND (Lancaster Co.) Blueber
ries, strawberries, peppers, eggplant, speciality
potatoes, as well as, insect and disease control in
vegetables, are just a few of the more than a
dozen topics that will be covered at the New Hol
land Vegetable Day on Jan. 19.
“Transgenic Vegetables” and “High Tunnels”
will round out the program. The meeting is spon
sored by the Eastern Lancaster County School
District and Lancaster County Cooperative Ex
tension.
Greenhouse flower growers will want to catch
the sessions on “Greenhouse Biosecurity and
Sanitation,” “New flower Varities,” and “Green-
Name
Addiess
Inc., Los Alamitos, CA
10:45 Specialty Tomatoes -
Dr. Peter A. Ferretti, Penn State
Univ.
11:15 Sweet Potato Produc
tion - Dr. Ted Carey, Kansas
State Univ.
Tree Fruit - Aztec Room
9:00 Risk Avoidance and
Mitigation Program for Apples
and Peaches in 7 Eastern States -
Overview - Dr. James Walgen
bach. North Carolina State Univ.
Monarch
Deb
9:10 ~Grower Perspective on
Reduced Risk Pest Management
Programs (grower panel) - Dr.
Henry Hogmire, West Virginia
Univ. (moderator)
10:25 -Agricultural Industry
Perspective on Reduced Risk
Pest Management Programs -
Benefits and Challenges (panel) -
Dr. Arthur Agnello, Cornell
Univ.
11:00 -Integrating Mating
Disruption into Insect Pest Con
trol in Eastern States - Dr. Larry
Gut, Michigan State Univ.
11:30 -Reduced Risk Pro
grams for Insect Control on
Peaches - Dr. Peter Shearer,
Rutgers Univ.
Thursday Afternoon,
January 29,2004
Sweet Corn School - Nigerian
Room
1:00 /Protecting Agriculture
from Terrorism - Michael Myers,
Penna. Dept, of Agriculture
1:30 Bt Sweet Com Accept
ance in the Marketplace - Dr.
Jennifer James, Penn State Univ.
2:15 How Sweet Is Sweet
Corn?? - Dr. Richard Hassel,
Clemson Univ.
3:15 Irrigating Sweet Corn -
Ray Samulis, Rutgers Coop. Ext.
3:45 Commercial Sweet Com
Production in Florida - Dr. Eric
Simonne, Univ. of Florida
4:15 Fertilizer Basics: Getting
Bang for Your Buck - Dr. Steve
Reiners - New York State Ag
Exp. Station
Bedding Plants
ACE
1:30 Fertility and Nutrition
Dr. Thomas Weiler, Cornell
Univ.
2:15 Marketing—Principles -
Dr. Kathleen Kelley, Penn State
Univ. Marketing Practices - Bev
erly Hoyer, Buzas Greenhouses
3:00 Culture of Wax and
Elatior Begonias - Dr. Jay Hol
comb, Penn State Univ.
Mon-
3:45 Update - Bacterial Dis
eases of Geranium (Ralstonia) -
Alan Michael, Penn State Coop.
Ext.
Blueberries and Raspberries -
# Attending.
Monarch
house IPM and Biocontrols.”
The meeting will be conducted at Yoder’s Res
taurant on Route 23 at the eastern edge of New
Holland. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. Cost
for the day is $lO per person if you pre-register
by Jan. 13 or $l5 per person at the door. Lunch
is provided.
For more information contact Jeff Stoltzfus at
(717) 354-1522.
To register send the following form along with
a check for the appropriate amount to: Adult
Farmer Program, 126 Eastern School Road, New
Holland, PA 17557.
@ $lO/person =
Make checks payable to "Adult Farmer Program" J
Monarch BDF
1:30 -Managing Problem
Weeds in Blueberries - Dr. Rich
ard Bonanno, Univ - of Massa
chusetts
2:00 -Japanese Beetle Biolo
gy and Management in Brambles
and Blueberries - Dr. Sridhar Po
lavarapu, Rutgers Univ.
2:30 -A Basic Review of
Blueberry Diseases - Dr. Elsa
Snchez, Penn State Univ.
3:00 -Changes in Small Fruit
Pesticide Labels - Kathleen Dem
chak, Penn State Univ.
Increasing the Profit of Your
Cut Flower Enterprise - Monarch
GIK
1:00 Succession Planting and
Growing/Marketing Experiences
- Carol and Leon Carrier, Plant
Masters, Gaithersburg, MD
2:00 Woody Ornamentals -
Variety Selection, Production,
Harvesting, Post Harvest, and
Marketing - Edward Pincus,
Third Branch Flowers Co., Rocks
Berry, VT
Value-Added Vegetables -
Monarch HJ
1:30 Value-added Opportuni
ties for Fruit and Vegetables -
David Coltrain, Kansas State
Univ.
2:00 Added-Value Vegetables
for Restaurants - Peter Borde,
Penn State Univ.
2:30 Generating More Dol
lars During Halloween - Steve
Bogash, Franklin Co. Coop. Ex
tension
3:00 Adding Value Through
Food Preparation - Kim Tait,
Tait Farm Foods, Boalsburg
3:30 Creating Value Added
Produce Products - Jill Thomp
son, Verdelli Farms, Harrisburg
Tree Fruit - Aztec Room
1:30 -Reduced Risk Pro
grams for Insect Control on
Apples - Dr. Larry Hull, Penn
State Univ.
2:15 -The Control of Non-
Lepidopteran Pests of Fruit Or
chards - Dr. Harvey Reissig, Cor
nell Univ.; Dr. Fred Gildow,
Penn State Univ.
2:45 -The Role of Biological
Control Agents in Reduced Risk
Apple and Peach Pest Manage
ment Programs - Dr. lan Nyrop,
Cornell Univ.; Dr. David Bid
dinger, Penn State Univ.
3:15 -Economics of New In
sect Pest Management Programs
- Lynn Kime, Penn State Coop,
Ext.
topics expected to qualify
for category credit.
/ topics expected to qualify
for core credit.
Total ■