Improving Your Business With On-Farm Research – December 18, 2012

Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Improving Your Business With On-Farm Research- at The Century House, 997 Rte 9 Latham. 

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Learn how to do your own field crop research and how to participate in state-wide research projects with Cornell faculty.  Speakers include Cornell faculty; Dr. Quirine Ketterings, Dr. Gary Bergstrom, Dr. Mark Sorrells; Alex Wright, Carovail; as well as Sandy Buxton and Aaron Gabriel (Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program).  We will discuss the tools, knowledge, and management it takes to do on-farm research.  Bring a research idea for your farm and develop a plan for it at the workshop.   Learn how about the NY On-Farm Research Partnership at Cornell; how to do strip trials in field  crops to test fungicides and other crop inputs; how to do small grain variety trials; what does it take to host a field trial with industry reps; and how to evaluate the economics of adopting new practices and products.  Charlie Koines will give a crop and dairy insurance update. 

Put on by Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program

$40 Pre-registration by Dec. 13, to CCE Albany Co., 24 Martin Rd., Voorheesville, NY 12186, or contact Gale (gek4@cornell.edu, 765-3500). Walk-ins $60.  Contact Aaron Gabriel for program questions or business sponsorships (518-380-1496, adg12@cornell.edu).

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