Tree Fruit - Nigerian Room

Tuesday Afternoon, February 3, 2009

Tree Fruit - Nigerian Room

Session Chair: Reed Soergel, Soergel Orchards

1:30*What Current Practices Qualify as Organic Methods?

Controlling Diseases - Dr. James Travis, Penn State Univ.

Controlling Insects - Dr. Greg Krawczyk, Penn State Univ.

Weed Control and Varieties - Dr. Rob Crassweller, Penn State Univ.

2:15Industry Show and Tell

2:30**The Certification Process - Dr. Noemi Halbrendt, Penn State Univ.

3:00Industry Show and Tell

3:15Consumer Behavior and Preference for Locally-Grown and Certified-Organic Produce and Value-Added Products - Dr. Kathleen Kelley, Penn State Univ.

3:45Adjourn

4:05SHAP Annual Business Meeting

4:15Maryland Board of Directors Meeting - Cocoa Suite #2

New Jersey Board of Directors Meeting - Cocoa Suite #4

Labor – Aztec Room

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1:30Farm Pond Management -Thomas McCarty, Penn State Univ.

2:00Organizing a Fruits to Field Ag Tour -Kathy Lesser – Penn State Coop. Ext.

2:45Consumer Research in Apples -Karen Rodriguez – Penna. Apple Marketing Program

3:15H-2A Labor Usage -Merlin Williams, Maryland Dept. of Labor

4:00Adjourn

Pumpkins – Magnolia Room

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1:30*Management Strategies for Cucurbit Viruses: Risks, Benefits, and Modes-of-Action –Kerry Mauck, Penn State Univ.

2:00*Getting Ahead of Pumpkin Downy Mildew with Forecasting and Fungicides- Dr. Gerald Holmes, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State Univ.

3:00Industry Show and Tell

3:15Topic TBA - Meg McGrath, Department of Plant Pathology, CornellUniv.

4:00Where Do Your Pumpkins Go? History of the Punkin Chunkin Contest - Frank Shade, Punkin ChunkinAssociation

4:30Adjourn

Season Extension/High Tunnels – CrystalRoom

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1:30How We Produce Snap Beans and Sweet Corn Three Weeks Earlier - Jennifer Schmehl and Sean McDermott, New Morning Farm

2:00Organic Fertility and Production in High Tunnels - Terry Nennich, Univ. of Minnesota Extension

2:30Cut Flower Production in High Tunnels- Catie Rasmussen, Penn State Univ.

3:00Industry Show and Tell

3:15What is Happening in High Tunnels in Ohio- Dr. Matthew Kleinhenz,Ohio State Univ.

4:00So Your are Thinking of Getting into High Tunnels!- Dr. William Lamont, Penn State Univ.

4:30Adjourn

Organic Vegetables – Empire RoomAB

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1:30*Determining If You Have Nematodes or Fungi in Your Soil WithA Simple Test - Dr. Beth Gugino, Penn State Univ.

2:00*Softer Chemistries for Tomato Disease Management - Steven Bogash, Penn State Coop Extension

2:30Continuous Cover: Fitting Cover Crops into Your Tight Rotation Schedule - Tianna Dupont, PennState Coop. Ext.

3:00Industry Show and Tell

3:15Farming in the Dark A Discussion About the Future of Sustainable Agriculture: Interviews with Vegetable Growers - Dr. Rhonda Janke, Kansas State Univ.

4:00Reduced Tillage for Organic Vegetable Production - Dr. Anu Rangarajan, CornellUniv.

4:30Adjourn

Snap Beans – Empire Room CD

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1:30No-Till Snap Beans -Sjoerd Duiker,PennStateUniversity

2:00*Slugs: Their Biology and Management – Ronald Hammond, OhioStateUniversity

2:30Panel Dealing with No-till –Joel Myers, Mark Bierly, grower

3:00Industry Show and Tell

3:15*What’s Keeping CMV Epidemics Out of Pennsylvania Snap Beans – Amanda Bachmann, Penn State

4:00*Dealing with White Mold After Ronilan – Dr. Beth Gugino,PennStateUniversity

4:30Adjourn

Marketing – WildRoseRoom

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1:30Selling Local Produce to Restaurants

2:15Follow –up to Keynote Presentation –Brian Nicholsen, Red Jacket Orchards

3:00Industry Show and Tell

3:15Grower Representation for Sales - Growing Large Acreage for Pennsylvania Chain Stores - William Saussman, Seminole Produce

3:45Produce Traceability Initiative

4:30Adjourn