Tuesday Morning, February 3, 2009

Pesticide Safety - Aztec Room

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9:00 **A Simple Way to Meet the Worker Protection Standard Training Requirement for Orchard Workers and Handlers - Phil Pitzer, Kerry Richards and James Harvey , Penn State Univ.

9:30 Industry Show and Tell

9:45 **Translating Pesticide Rates into Practical Amounts - Emelie Swackhamer, Penn State Coop. Ext.

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Vine Crops - Magnolia Room

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9:00 *Seed Treatments for Cucurbit Crops - Dr. Thomas Kuhar, Virginia Tech

9:30 Industry Show and Tell

9:45 Increasing Yield while Decreasing Nitrogen with Precision Fertilizer Applications - Dr. Gerald Brust, Univ. of Maryland

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Four Season Production - Crystal Room

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9:00 Extending the Direct Market Season - Fall Produce Sales - Dr. Jeanine Davis, NCSU, Mountain Research Station

9:30 Industry Show and Tell

9:45 Winter Lettuce Production in High Tunnel - Does It Work - James Burridge, Penn State Univ.

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Organic Vegetables - Empire Room AB

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9:00 Crop Rotation Impacts on Crop Yields, Weeds and Economics - John Teasdale, USDA ARS

9:30 Industry Show and Tell

9:45 Media for Organic Transplant Production - Dr. Anusuya Rangarajan, Cornell Univ.

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Leafy Greens - Empire Room CD

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9:00 Leafy Green Production in Valencia - Arthur King, Harvest Valley Farms

9:30 Industry Show and Tell

9:45 Lettuce Varieties: What's Available - Lisa Bloodnick, Bloodnick Family Farm

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Marketing - Wild Rose Room

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9:00 Organizing an Ag Tour Package - Katy Lessor, Penn State Coop. Ext.

9:30 Industry Show and Tell

9:45 To Be Announced

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Tree Fruit - Nigerian Room

Session Chair: Matthew Boyer, President, SHAP

9:00 Invocation - James Clarke, U.A.P.

9:05 President¿s Address - Matthew Boyer, Boyer Orchards

9:15 George Goodling Memorial Lecture - The Future in Orchard Technology - Dr. Sanjiv Singh, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute

10:00 Colony Collapse Disorder and Alternatives to European Honeybees - Maryanne Frazier, Penn State Univ.

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Wine Grapes

Session Chair - Dr. Daniel Ward, Rutgers Coop. Ext.

9:00 Plans and Early Results of the USDA NE1020 Wine Grape Variety Trials - Dr. Daniel Ward, Rutgers Coop. Ext. and Dr. Robert Crassweller, Penn State Univ.

9:45 Testing Alternative Wine Grape Varieties - Dr Joseph Fiola - University of Maryland.

10:30 Adjourn to Plenary Session

Plenary - Nigerian and Aztec Rooms

10:45 Mid-Atlantic Legislative Affairs Update - Gary Swan, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau

11:00 Keynote Presentation - Making the Most of the Buy Fresh Trend- Brian Nicholson, Red Jacket Orchards

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. Robert Crassweller, Penn State Univ.

2:15 Industry Show and Tell

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

3:00 Industry Show and Tell

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

3:45 Adjourn

4:05 SHAP Annual Business Meeting

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

New Jersey Board of Directors Meeting - Cocoa Suite #4

Labor/Farm Management- Aztec Room

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

2:00 Travels to Interpoma - grower panel to be announced

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

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

4:00 Adjourn

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. Beth Gugino, Penn State Univ.

3:00 Industry Show and Tell

3:15 *Topic TBA - Meg McGrath, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell Univ.

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

4:30 Adjourn

Season Extension/High Tunnels - Crystal Room

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

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

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

3:00 Industry Show and Tell

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

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

4:30 Adjourn

Organic Vegetables - Empire Room AB

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1:30 To Be Announced

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

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

3:00 Industry Show and Tell

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

4:00 Reduced Tillage for Organic Vegetable Production - Dr. Anusuya Rangarajan, Cornell Univ.

4:30 Adjourn

Snap Beans - Empire Room CD

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1:30 No-Till Snap Beans - Sjoerd Duiker, Penn State University

2:00 *Slugs: Their Biology and Management - Ronald Hammond, Ohio State University

2:30 No-till Snap Beans - Joel Myers, Myers Farms and Mark Bierly, Hanover Foods

3:00 Industry 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, Penn State University

4:30 Adjourn

Marketing - Wild Rose Room

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1:30 Selling Local Produce to Restaurants - Jamie Moore, Eat¿n Park Restaurants

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

3:00 Industry Show and Tell

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

3:45 Produce Traceability Initiative

4:30 Adjourn

Tuesday Evening

Social

6:00 Fruit and Vegetable Grower Reception - Chocolate Lobby

7:00 Fruit and Vegetable Growers Banquet - Aztec and Nigerian Rooms (ticket required) - buffet dinner, recognitions and awards

9:00 PVGA Hospitality Room - Room 3341 - visit with fellow growers and speakers - open until 11:00 p.m.

Pool Open until 10:00 p.m.

Wednesday Morning, February 4, 2009

Direct Marketing - Aztec Room

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9:00 Using Trends, Tips and Techniques to Encourage Sales in Your Retail Outlet - Dr. Kathleen Kelley, Penn State Univ.

9:45 Industry Show and Tell

10:00 Advertising in a Difficult Market - Recession, What Recession? - John Berry, Penn State Coop. Ext.

10:30 Food System Protections - Marketing to a Concerned Customer - William Pool, Wegman¿s Markets

11:30 PA Farm Market Development Grant Program - Sandy Hopple, PA Dept. of Agriculture

12:00 Luncheon Buffet - Great Lobby and Cocoa Suite Lobby (cash)

Sweet Corn - Magnolia Room

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9:00 *Trends and Tools to Manage Insect Pressure - Dr. Shelby Fleischer, Penn State Univ.

9:30 Buying Local Sweet Corn: A Grocery Store¿s Perspective - Eric Crossing, Wegman¿s

10:00 Industry Show and Tell

10:15 The Why¿s and Hows for No-Till Sweet Corn - Sjoerd Duiker, Penn State Univ.

11:00 Planter Set-up for Residue Management and Good Stands in No-till - Joel Myers, Myers Farms

11:30 PVGA Annual Meeting - Crystal Room

12:30 Luncheon Buffet - Great Lobby and Cocoa Suite Lobby (cash)

General Vegetables - Crystal Room

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9:00 *Herbicide Dissipation on Low Density Polyethylene Mulch - Dr. Timothy Grey, Univ. of Georgia

9:30 Medicinal Herb Production for Farm Markets - Dr. Jeanine Davis, North Carolina State Univ .

10:00 Industry Show and Tell

10:15 *A Review of the Most Serious Vegetable Diseases in 2008 - Dr. Beth Gugino, Penn State Univ.

11:00 *Managing Bell Pepper Diseases with Fungicides and Alternative Strategies - Dr. Kelly Ivors, North Carolina State Univ.

11:30 PVGA Annual Meeting - Crystal Room

12:30 Luncheon Buffet - Great Lobby and Cocoa Suite Lobby (cash)

Greenhouse Ornamentals - Empire Room AB

Session Chair - Steven Bogash and Alan Michael, Penn State Coop. Ext.

9:00 Managing Nutrition in Media Mixes with Composted Products - Fred Hulme, Scotts Professional Products

9:30 Using Fertilizer Efficiently - Cari Peters, J.R. Peters, Inc.

10:00 Industry Show and Tell

10:15 Photoperiod, Timing and Energy - Matthew Blanchard, Michigan State Univ.

11:00 *Insect Control - Casey Sclar, Longwood Gardens

11:30 PVGA Annual Meeting - Crystal Room

12:30 Luncheon Buffet - Great Lobby and Cocoa Suite Lobby (cash)

Potatoes - Empire Room CD