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Upcoming Events
Mar. 11, 2010
Peach Pruning Tour
- Time:
- 11:30am — 1:00pm
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will be
hosting a peach pruning tour at Davis Peach Orchard. Steve
Hoying, Fruit Specialist from the New York State Agriculture
Experiment Station will be showing growers how to maximize
their peach’s health and productivity through various
pruning techniques. If interested, contact Dan Fokine at
dcf59@cornell.edu[mailto:dcf59@cornell.edu] or call
631.852.3205 ext 204 more...
Mar. 30, 2010
Grape Pest Management Meeting
- Time:
- 9:00am — 12:00pm
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County grape
research program will be hosting a spring grape pest
management meeting at the LIHREC facility, 3059 Sound Ave
Riverhead. Dr. Wayne Wilcox from Cornell University will be
providing an update on his latest research, observations on
the 2009 season and will cover topics in disease management
that are being discussed here in NY and worldwide. Alice
Wise and Libby Tarleton... more...
Mar. 30, 2010
Summer Cover Crop Workshop
- Time:
- 1:00pm — 4:00pm
A new summer cover crop project is seeking to help organic
vegetable growers more easily and effectively use summer
cover crops in their systems - and thus reap the many soil,
weed, and pest management benefits these crops can provide.
The project is focusing on buckwheat, mustard, and
sorghum-sudan, but we'll survey all the diverse summer cover
crops available and discuss which of these might be... more...

