2014 Conference Proceedings

January 21-23, 2014

Berries

• Currant Production in the Northeastern US: Is This the Beginning of the End
• General Principles of Day Neutral Strawberry Production
• Day-Neutral Strawberry Variety Performance and Planting Date Affects in Plasticulture
• Day-Neutrals: Strawberry Weed Management
• Grower Panel: Berry Soil and Nutrient Management
• Strawberry Powdery Mildew: An Update

Spotted Wing Drosophila

• Assessment of Lures for Monitoring Adult SWD
• Year-round Spotted Wing Drosophila Monitoring and Fruit Damage Assessment
• Enhancing Insecticide Efficacy with Phagostimulants
• Spotted Wing Drosophila Trap Network 2013

Brews and bourbon

• Growing Malting Barley in New York
• Choosing Small Grains for NY Growers

Cider apples

• Mechanical Harvest of Cider Apples

Cole crops

• CSI Black Rot: What DNA-Fingerprinting Technology Has Revealed About This Disease in New York
• Best Management Practices for Downy Mildew in Cole Crops
• Eastern Broccoli Project Update: Variety Development, Plant Population and Marketing Channels

Cover crops, tillage and soils

• Can Cover Crops Benefit Vegetable Fields? Yes!
• Getting the Most Out of Buckwheat Cover Crop After Early Vegetables
• Managing Muck Soils for Vegetable Crops
• Nutrient Management with Cover Crops
• Tomato Minimum Tillage and Cover Crops

Cut flowers

• Marketing Specialty Cut Flowers
• Specialty Cut Flower Varieties

Keynote

• Climate Change and Agriculture: No Longer Business as Usual

Onions

• Update on Bacterial Diseases of Onion
• IYSV Flares Up in New York in 2013
• The battle against Stemphylium leaf blight of onion in Ontario, Canada
• Onion thrips population genetics and implications for management

Potatoes

• Best Management Practices for Potatoes
• Potato cyst nematode – biology, distribution and impact on the potato industry
• Genetically Modified Potatoes: Where Do Things Currently Stand?
• Golden Nematode Program Update
• Late Blight Update for 2014
• Managing Colorado potato beetle neonicotinoid resistance
• Virus diseases in potato: The problem has come home to roost in New York

Processing vegetables

• Table beet weed control
• Management of Herbicide Resistant Weeds in Processing Carrot Fields in New York
• Edamame and Faba Bean Production: A New Look at Old Crops
• Successful Lima Bean Production
• Lima bean weed control
• Pea weed control
• Snap and Lima Bean Disease Problems in 2013
• Snap bean and lima bean weed control
• Sweet corn weed control

Seed-saving

• Fruition Seeds
• Seed Quality
• Seed-borne diseases and Resources for Testing Plants and Treating Seeds

Transplants

• Transplant Pest Management: Flowers vs. Vegetables; transplants vs. fruit

Tree fruit

• Apple Fruit Growth
• Sunlight, Yield, and Productivity of Apples
• Status of the Invasive Brown Marmorated Stink Bug and Spotted Wing Drosophila in NY
• Managing Fire Blight in Young RubyFrost Plantings
• Managing Fungicides to Minimize Fruit and Leaf Injury
• Honey bees, colony collapse disorder, and wild pollinators
• Progress in precision spraying
• Precision Thinning of Gala and Honeycrisp using the Carbohydrate and
  Fruit Growth Rate Models
• New fungicides and resistance in scab and mildew

Vine crops

• Cucurbit downy mildew: What to look for and how to control it!
• Supplementing pumpkin fields with beehives: Is it worth it?
• Pumpkin and squash fertility management
• Producing summer squash without pollination - Ranking varieties