Upcoming Events for Agriculture Calendar

Mar. 11, 2010 : Peach Pruning Tour

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:09:07 -0500

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 or call 631.852.3205 ext 204

Mar. 30, 2010 : Grape Pest Management Meeting

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:58:58 -0500

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 will also provide updates on projects from the research vineyard. Pesticide recertification credits will be available and no RSVP is required.

Mar. 30, 2010 : Summer Cover Crop Workshop

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:24:48 -0500

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 most beneficial for growers on Long Island.

Sandy Menasha will also report on her recent and upcoming work with using mustard cover crops to improve crop quality and manage soil-borne pests and pathogens in cucurbit crops.

We'll also explore the possibility of developing local cover crop seed production for the area - thus, substantially reducing the difficulty and cost of sourcing cover crop seed. The project can provide substantial support to growers interested in growing cover crop seed.

This workshop is co-sponsored by Cornell Cooperative extension of Suffolk County and NOFA-NY and is funded, in part, by the USDA Organic Research and Education Initiative.

The workshop will be held in the 1st floor meeting room, at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center at 423 Griffing Avenue, Riverhead, NY.

For more information, please contact Sandy Menasha (srm45@cornell.edu, 631-727-7850 ext. 316) or Elizabeth Dyck (organicseed@nofany.org, 607 895 6913).