2017 Conference Proceedings
January 17-19, 2017
Expo topics (remaining abstracts coming soon):
Special Session
Berry Crops Protected Culture Workshop
- Growing strawberries in low tunnels
- Strawberry cultivars for low tunnels and NYS day neutral breeding program
- Continuing progress in plastics research
- Plastic recycling: The final consideration
- Interactive demonstration of low tunnels and plastic light transmission
- SWD management and impact on profits
- NEWA weather apps -newa.cornell.edu
- Mitigation tools for climate smart farmers
- NEWA and CICSS tools for farmers: Interactive demonstration
- Highlighting innovation under plastic
- Small fruit disease management under plastic
- Managing insects and mites under cover
- Raspberry cultivars for high tunnels
- Protecting berry crops using exclusion netting
Greenhouse Vegetables: Costs, Benefits, and Consumer Willingness to Pay
Cabbage
Hops
- Essential elements of producing mildew-free hops in the eastern US
- Potential New York hopyard insect pest
- What we have learned growing hops and brining malting barley into a vegetable operation
Processing Vegetables
Amber Waves on the Horizon: Grain Growing for Emerging Value-Added, Local, Small Grain Markets
- The Cornell malting barley update: Of growing pains and progress in a growing NYS industry
- Of combines and test weight, craft and terrior: Notes on getting into growing grain for value-added markets
Cut Flower Production
Weed Management
- Weed seed banks: What can be done to lower their impact in our cropping systems?
Post-Harvest
Soil Health
- Restoring soil health at Roxbury Farm and the Hudson Valley Farm Hub: Strategies and success stories to date
- Going big with brassica green manures and biofumigation for soil health in eastern Washington and beyond
Biopesticides: What are they? Will they work? How to Incorporate them on your farm
- Doing right by biopesticides: Truths and myths
- Biopesticides: What we’ve tried, what has worked
Tree Fruit Pest Management
Tree Fruit Horticulture
Labor
- Cornell Farmworker Program: Improving workplace relations and communications
- Looking for talent in today’s workforce: H2A and other services provided by the NYS Department of Labor
Worker Protection Standards
Farmers Market Federation
- Building your marketing plan
- Marketing and outreach efforts for Farm-to-School success
- Using social media to grow loyal customers
- Famers market currencies
- Understanding the science of pricing
- Working with a diverse audience: Do your research
- Working with a diverse audience: Understanding the connection between culture and food preferences
Agricultural Health
- Reduce your risk of skin cancer: How to prevent and protect against the sun
- Tick-borne illness: What every farmer needs to know
- Health and safety on the farm: Respirators to ROPS
Sweet Corn
Wildlife Management
Tomato Production Updates
Specialty Crops
- Growing, storing, and marketing sweet potatoes at Burnt Rock Farm
- Growing and marketing hot peppers at Sparrow Arc Farm
High Tunnels
Tree Fruit – Technology in the Orchard
- Sensor technology 1: Quantitative measurement of fields and crops using drones and ground-based platforms
- Apple harvest mechanization: Present and future states
- Sensor technology 2: Qualitative assessment of crops and decision support
Tree Fruit – Challenging Weather and Risk Mitigation
Beginning Farmer
Marketing: Social Media and Apps
- How to connect with consumers using social media
- Utilizing social media for sales on your farm: Making your business thrive
Transplant Production
- Media, water, and fertility considerations in transplant production
- Germination chamber design
- Grower tips for quality transplant production
Root Crops
- New product evaluations for control of nematodes in carrots in Ontario, Canada
- Variety trial show and tell for table beets
- Fresh market carrot variety trial show and tell
Climate Smart Farming: Using Climate Based Decision Tools to Prepare for Climate Variability and Change
- Intro to climate trends and impacts on agriculture in the Northeast
- In-depth view of the CDF Freeze tools and GDD Tool, interaction with tool among participants, other CSF resources
Onions: Ensuring High Quality in Small-Scale Production
Efficient Water Management on Your Farm in the Face of Drought
- Intro to climate trends and best management practices for soil and water resource management
- In-depth view of the CSF Irrigation Scheduler and interaction with tool among participants
- Overview of other resources available on the CSF website and elsewhere
Potato
- What we’ve seen and what we like from our potato variety trials
- Dickeya blackleg: The newest disease threat to potatoes
- Managing Colorado potato beetle and potato leafhopper
Hard Cider
- From orchard to glass: Designing an optimal craft cider from NY dessert apples
- Introduction to tannins in apples
- Cider apple trees: Supply, demand, and growing challenges from a nurseryman’s perspective
Cole Crops
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