This course will educate fresh market growers on current pest
management, food safety, and marketing issues in fresh market crops.
Specific topics covered include: managing the weed seedbank, Farm to
School marketing opportunities, Late Blight updates, FSMA On-Farm
Readiness Reviews, Biopesticides, Biostimulants, and how they work, wash
line equipment cleaning checklist, and a discussion of production
problems throughout the 2018 growing season.
This course is open to all area fresh market vegetable growers.
1.0 DEC pesticide applicator recertification credits (categories 1a, 23) and 0.5 DEC credits (category 22) will be offered.
$15/person, pre-registration requested by February 18th. Walk-ins accepted.
Elizabeth Buck
Cornell vegetable Program
emb273@cornell.edu
585-406-3419
Cornell Cooperative Extension - Wayne County
1581 State Route 88 North
Newark, NY 14513
Last updated January 22, 2019