Please Save the Date for the Cornell Seed Growers Field Day to be held the morning of July 2^nd.  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)