2025 New York State Flower Industries Winter Greenhouse Growers School - Onondaga
- Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
2025 NYSFI Winter Greenhouse Growers School
The latest information and continuing pesticide credits!
CCE Onondaga In-person Sessions
January 21, 2025
Agengda
9:30 – 10:00 Check -in, continuing credit pesticide forms and coffee
10:00 – 11:00 am IPM for cut flowers and native gardens with Betsy Lamb, Cornell University IPM
Small-scale cut flower growers and native gardeners produce a wide variety of species and cultivars and, therefore, can have multiple insect and disease pests. In this session we will discuss using an integrated system that pairs cultural and biological methods with pesticides only if necessary, including sanitation, exclusion netting, and genetic resistance on insects such as beetles, thrips and caterpillars, and diseases such as botrytis, mildews and viruses.
11:00 – 11:45 New Cut Flower Varieties - with Dave Dowling Ball Horticultural Company
Noon – 1:00 pm Lunch Discussion - Challenges and Issues for Greenhouses and Growers
1:00 – 2:45 pm Biocontrol for cut flowers and in native gardens with Betsy Lamb, Cornell University IPM
Naturally occurring beneficial insects in field-grown cut flowers and native plants are more common than growers may think. But are there ways to encourage their presence? We will discuss some of the procedures of conservation biocontrol, including methods for providing food and habitat for biological control organisms using hedge rows or ‘beetle banks’.
2:15 – 3:00 pm Native Plants in Garden Centers and Landscapes – Janet Oppedisano, CCE Onondaga Ag Team Leader
3:00 – 3:10 pm Break
3:10 – 4:00 Flower Collective of CNY: a Business Model for Cut Flower Farms - Claire Collie, Partner/Owner Flower Collective of CNY; Stephanie Brainard, Owner of Brainard Farmette.
Fee
$60
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Last updated January 8, 2025