Cornell Seed Growers Field Day
Event Details
Date
July 2, 2024
Location
NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn
791 Dryden Road, Route 366
Ithaca, NY 14853
Host
Cornell Seed Growers
Alan Taylor
315-521-0439
email Alan Taylor
Please Save the Date for the Cornell Seed Growers Field Day to be held the morning of July 2nd. The event will be held at the NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn, 791 Dryden Rd., Rt. 366, Ithaca, NY.
8:30-8:55 Registration, coffee, & networking
8:55 Begin tour
9:00-10:15a Small Grains: Breeding for Quality and Disease Resistance Mark Sorrells
• White and red winter wheat varieties
• Spring oat and spring barley varieties
• High quality spring and winter malting barley varieties for NY
• Free-threshing emmer and spelt varieties
• Potential new hulless oat variety release
• Update on certified seed inventory by crop (RJ Richtmyer)
10:15-10:35a Explaining the Birds and Bees Act and how it will impact neonicotinoid seed treatments in NYS (Alejandro Calixto)
10:35a-12:00p Forages, cover crops, pulse and industrial hemp
• Pre-breeding diverse alfalfa germplasm from the USDA gene bank (Virginia Moore)
• Breeding alfalfa for compatibility with intermediate wheatgrass in a dual-purpose grain-forage system (Leah Treffer)
• Forage yield trial updates (Julie Hansen)
• Cover crop breeding updates (Solveig Hanson)
• Pulse crop update: lentil seeding rate & grain pea variety evaluations (Solveig Hanson)
• Hemp fiber variety evaluation (Luis Monserrate)
12:00pm Adjourn
DEC and CCA education credits will be requested
Contacts: Alan Taylor (315-521-0439), agt1@cornell.edu) and Margaret Smith (607-255-1654, mes25@cornell.edu)
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Transition Heifer Calf Program
Join us for this hand-on program and demos! We will be offering this program in English and in Spanish.Calf and heifer managers, dairy herdspersons, farm owners, and heifer raisers interested in learning more about how to better house and manage animals as they transition from the calf phase to the weaned heifer phase.
Topics covered:
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Biosecurity: All attendees must wear clean clothes and boots. You will be required to scrub and disinfect footwear upon arrival to the program and before leaving.
Registration: $25 per person (includes lunch)