2016 Conference Proceedings

January 19-21, 2016

Expo topics (remaining abstracts coming soon):

Keynote:

• Cultivating Collaborations

Tree Fruit

• Viruses and apple propagation: Why should I worry? - .ppt version
• An introduction from Cornell’s newly hired Assistant Professor of Sustainable Fruit Production Systems
• The mystery of apples in China
• Apple scab and new fungicides
• Adjuvants to improve disease control in apples
• Pesticide storage and security: Be ready for the unexpected!
• Ambrosia beetle (Xylosandrus germanus) infestations and management trials in high-density apple orchards
• Black stem borer control in apple nurseries and tall spindle planting
• What we have learned for successful production of Honeycrisp under Washington conditions
• Precision chemical thinning of Honeycrisp and Gala: 2015 results
• Challenges and opportunities to optimize mineral nutrition of Honeycrisp
• How to avoid mistakes when establishing and training a tall spindle orchard
• Apples of the World II- Orchard Systems
  o Brazil
  o Spain
  o China (abstract) and slides
  o Washington State
• Mechanization in Washington state
• Mechanical thinning in Washington State
• Platforms in NY orchards and the economic benefits
• Grower panel: Efficiency in the modern apple orchard

Potato

• Nutrient management for potato production
• Canadian and European varieties for the fresh market
• Status of potato cyst nematodes in the US and Canada
• Golden Nematode Program update
• Report on NYS grower-funded potato research
• Report from the US Potato Board
• Report on the National Potato Council
• Potato blackleg (Dickeya?): What we know about an emerging problem
• Late blight update 2015
• Performance of a new soil biofumigant: Preliminary research

Beginning Farmers

• Wholesale, retail, or both? Maximizing profit in different market channels
• How do I price my product? Practical considerations

• Effects of cropping history on European corn borer abundance in processing sweet corn and snap beans
• Effects of material and timing for European corn borer control in snap beans
• Diversity and fungicide resistance in a Cercospora beticola population on table beet in New York
• Management of nematodes and carrot diseases

Cut Flowers

• Growing the dream: What success looks like from the inside
• Cut flowers for sale: What market suits your style?

Greenhouse Floriculture

• Insect biocontrol: Choosing the right critters for your environment
• Wood heat for greenhouses: What you need to know
• Awful aphids: Biological and environmental factors in aphid management

Weed Management

• Weed management in organic cropping systems
• Herbicide resistance: What vegetable growers need to know
• Cover crop and weed management in living mulch plus reduced rate herbicide systems in vegetables

Cabbage and Cole Crops

• What cabbage growers need to know about the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
• Weed management update from Michigan, including pipeline products and their prospects for improved weed control in Cole crops - .ppt slides
• Aerial imaging technology and potential applications in cabbage production
• New developments in managing downy mildew and Alternaria leaf spot in Cole crops - .ppt slides
• Eastern Broccoli Project Update: Five-year progress report and future plans

Direct Marketing

• Marketing 101
• Food safety at direct marketing venues
• Pricing for retail success
• Successful selling at farmers markets (farm stands too!)
• Industry benchmarks: Farmers market benchmarks
• Industry benchmarks: Building the success of food hubs through the Cooperative Experience

Sweet Corn

• Evaluating novel techniques for bird management in sweet corn
• New herbicide options for weed management in sweet corn, 2015
• New options for caterpillar management in sweet corn
• Foliar diseases of significance for sweet corn production in New York

High Tunnels

• High tunnel soils: pH and alkalinity
• High tunnel soils: Nutrient management update
• High tunnel soils: Health and biology
• Imperfect or impeccable high tunnel tomatoes: It’s up to you!
• Greenhouse tomato foliar disease updates: Powdery mildew and leaf mold

Soil Health

• Demystifying biofumigation with Brassica cover crops: What we know about best management and potential benefits
• Results of Cornell Soil Health testing on 13 vegetable farms
• Cover cropping and tillage on Martens Organic Farm
• How are cover crops affecting my nutrient levels? Understanding cover crop qualities and strategies for efficient nutrient management
• Cover crop mixes, inter-seeding, and reduced tillage on Branton Farms
• Reducing tillage and building soil health on Goranson Farm, a diversified organic farm
• Western New York Soil Health Alliance

Tomatoes

• Reducing fiascos in the field
• Staying on top of the weather: Tomato disease forecasts on NEWA

Onions

• New York Update: Managing Stemphylium leaf blight in onion with fungicides
• Digging deeper towards understanding the Stemphylium leaf blight pathogen of onion in New York - .ppt slides
• Stemphylium leaf blight of onion in Ontario, Canada: Difficult to understand and challenging to control
• Weed management update from Michigan including pipeline products and their prospects for improved weed control in onions - .ppt slides
• Progress in understanding onion bacterial diseases
• Medicating onions for thrips infestations: New remedies to consider - .ppt slides
• Adoption and performance of the Cornell Onion Thrips Management Program in 2015
• Evaluating a three-component IPM program for onion thrips - .ppt slides

Vine Crops

• Vine crop disease and management updates
• Demystifying biofumigation for Phytophthora with Brassica cover crops: What we know so far about best management and potential benefits
• Vine crops genetics: What’s on the horizon?
• New Englanders and their pumpkin chucking apparatus: Ways to increase traffic and sales on your farm!
• Cucurbit Disease Management
• Cucurbit Fungicide List 2016

Food Safety

• FSMA: Are you in or out? Navigating the definition of a farm
• FSMA Produce Safety Rule: Key requirements and challenges to implementation
• Virtual farm tour: Assessing risks and implementing produce safety practices

Labor Options

• ROOT (Refugee Onsite Occupational Training)
• Urban farming in Buffalo: Green shoots for new Americans

Berries

• Soil health in matted row strawberries
• Managing highbush blueberry nutrition
• Successful nutrient strategies for berry crops
• Prioritizing strawberry weed control
• Cane berry weed management strategies
• Advances in high tunnel covers
• Strategies to control arthropod pests in high tunnels
• Microbial pesticide efficacy in controlling disease on strawberries and raspberries in high tunnels
• Extending local strawberry production using low tunnel technology

Hard Cider

• Building a cider brand
• Cider production 101: The ‘how-to’ of cider making
• Is it worth it to grow apples for hard cider?
• The cider state: New York’s potential to lead the cider category

Hops and Grains

• The Cornell malt barley update: Grower considerations and best management
• Decoding malt barley quality: An industry insider’s perspective
• Grainnovations: Specialty and smaller-scale grain drying and storage strategies
• Demystifying distilling: The secondary grain market you didn’t know you needed
• 2015 Cornell brewer survey: Preferences for malt and hops
• Hop powdery mildew research in New York
• Hops scouting and fertility research
• The Research Hop Yard and the status of the hop industry in New York

Root Crops

• Carrot variety trial results and show and tell
• Beet variety trial results and show and tell
• Parsnip variety trial results and show and tell

Climate Smart Farming

• Climate science and impacts to agriculture in the northeast
• Climate smart farming resources and decision support tools (how-to and interactive demos) - .ppt version