2013 Conference Proceedings

January 22-24, 2013

Allium School

• Forsburg Garlic Planter
• Allium Physiology 101
• Spring Application of Winter Rye for Weed Control in Plasticulture Onions
• Garlic Planting Considerations
• Post-Harvest Garlic Trial

Beginning Farmers

• Staying Profitable: Sue Decker/Blue Star Farm
• Staying Profitable: Luke Deikis and Cara Fraver/Quincy Farm
• Staying Profitable: Nancy Grove/Old Path Farm
• Small Sprayers for Small-Scale Vegetable Farms
• Decision making for profitability: Lessons learned
• Pesticide and Fertilizer Math: Converting Product Rates into Smaller, Practical Amounts

Berries

• Bird Damage Prevention for Northern New England Fruit Growers
• Fruit Rots of Berries
• Possibilities for Financial Risk Management in Berries
• Leaf analysis instructions small fruit
• Plant Tissue Analysis Tree Fruit, Small Fruit and Vineyards (Agro-One Form P)
• Leaf analysis test ranges
• Strawberry Season Extension Using Low Tunnels
• Reduced tillage strawberry system
• 2012 Berry Pricing Survey
• What we've learned about soils for berry crops
• Leaf and soil tests on local berry farms: Lessons from summer 2010
• Soil Health Sampling
• Soil Health Test Submission Form
• Soil Test Form for Commercial Fruit Crops and Christmas Trees
• Soil Sampling Instructions
• Understand your Agro-One Soil Test Results

Cole Crops

• Evaluating new herbicides for cabbage
• Heat-tolerant brocolli varieties
• Removing Field Heat in Broccoli
• Deep placed N in reduce-tilled cabbage
• Can Alternaria Leaf Spot Be Managed Organically?
• Control of Downy Mildew in Cole Crops

Cover Crops

• Getting the most value out of summer cover crops by planting and killing and incorporating at the right time
• Strip planting cover crops to improve crop growth in reduced tillage systems
• Making the Most of Cover Crop Mixtures
• Cover crop mix table

Direct Marketing

• A corny idea or an American dream
• Into the Jar: Creating Your Own Processed Foods
• Introducing Your Market to a Larger Customer Base

Food Safety

• A Grower's Perspective on the Harmonized Experience

High Tunnels

• High tunnel grafting and variety trials
• 2012 High Tunnel Cucumber Trial

Labor

• Cornell Farmworkers Program outreach
• Workplace Relation Flyer

Leafy Greens

• Cultural Methods to Reduce Disease in Winter Tunnel Greens
• Pesticide and Fertilizer Math: Converting Product Rates into Smaller, Practical Amounts
• Germination and establishment considerations for spinach and leafy greens

Processing Crops

• Updating Foliar Diseases of Beets and Carrots and Their Management
• Table beet research report
• Carrot research report
• Sweet corn research report
• Lima bean research report
• Pea research report
• Snap bean research report
• Molds in snap and lima beans
• Insects in Processing Sweet Corn: Changing Trends and the Need for New Management Strategies

Produce Marketing Association

• Produce Marketing Association Public Affairs Update

Root Crops

• Cold storage for root crops
• The benefits and challenges of root crops for winter market
• Meeting the postharvest needs of vegetables from field to market
• Marketing fall and winter root crops

Spotted wing drosophila

• Spotted Wing Drosophila in New York: Where we are and where we are heading
• Modernizing sprayers for optimal control of Spotted Wing Drosophila
• Progress in the Development of an In-Canopy Fixed Spraying System for High-Density Orchards
• Spotted Wing Drosophila Part 1: Overview and Identification
• Spotted Wing Drosophila Part 2: Natural History
• Spotted Wing Drosophila Part 3: Monitoring
• Spotted Wing Drosophila Part 4: Management
• Spotted wing drosophila in the southeastern United States: Status, management, and needs
• Spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) biology and management in North Carolina blueberries
• Spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) biology and management in North Carolina strawberries
• Spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) larval sampling and post harvest considerations
• Spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) biology and management in North Carolina home gardens

Sweet Corn

• Insects in Processing Sweet Corn: Changing Trends and the Need for New Management Strategies
• Northern Corn Leaf Blight and Common Rust in Fresh Market Sweet Corn

Tomato and Pepper

• Development and Use of Cultivars with Resistance or Tolerances to Late Blight, Early Blight and Septoria Leaf Spot
• Tomato Late Blight Update

Tree Fruit

• What is the best herbicide for new apple plantings
• Wild pollinators of eastern apple orchards
• Disease managment challenges of 2012
• 2013 Guidelines for Fire Blight Management in New York
• Updates on Brown Marmorated Stink Bug and Spotted Wing Drosophila in New York
• Precision spraying: using fine tuning and electronics
• Increasing Workforce Productivity
• The Fruiting Wall Concept using Tall Spindle Trees and Mechanical Pruning
• Precision Irrigation: The New Cornell Orchard Irrigation Website
• Working Efficiently in the Apple Orchard
• Mechanization - Increasing Efficiency on Your Farm

Vine Crops

• 2011 pumpkin herbicide comparison
• Staying ahead of cucurbit downy mildew with the IPMpipe forecasting system
• Is it worth supplementing pumpkin fields with bees?
• Detecting Downy Mildew Spores Before Symptoms Develop
• Cucurbit Disease Management Strategies for 2013