COME & JOIN US!!!
2012 CORNELL SEED GROWERS FIELD DAY
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
For Seed Growers, Seed Treatment Applicators, and other Seed Professionals
Place: NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn, 791 Dryden Rd., Rt. 366, Ithaca, NY
Time: 8:30 AM-12:00 noon
AGENDA
8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee, & networking
9:00 Introduction Margaret Smith
Board wagons, begin tour
Small Grains: Breeding for Quality and Pest Resistance Mark Sorrells
White and red winter wheat variety recommendations
Spring oat and spring barley variety recommendations
Prediction models for Fusarium head blight selections
Varietal improvement using marker-assisted selection
OREI grant “Value-added grains for local and regional food systems”
Certified and Foundation Seed Update Alan Westra
Field Crops Pathology Update Gary Bergstrom
2012 early season disease occurrence overview
Integrated management of Fusarium head blight and vomitoxin in wheat
U.S. recovery plan for new virulent stem rusts
Disease assessment in switchgrass varieties
Forage Varieties, Pest Management, and Breeding Don Viands
What new yield data are available in perennial forages?
What’s new with alfalfa varieties with resistance to potato leafhopper?
Update on research with brown root rot resistance in alfalfa
Breeding alfalfa for higher forage quality
Breeding alfalfa for resistance to alfalfa snout beetle
New research on switchgrass seeding rates and seeding time
12:00 Adjourn
DEC continuing education credits requested; CCA credits available.
Margaret Smith (607-255-1654, mes25@cornell.edu) for the Field Day Planning Committee
For your calendar: Cornell Seed Conference Date: Thursday 29 November 2012
