Workshop Invitation: Establishing A Successful High Density Organic Orchard Cropping System. Hoying, Rosenberger, Cook & Jentsch @ HVRL

Small Acreage Organic Orchard Success

Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 from 4-7pm
Hudson Valley Lab, 3357 US Hwy 9W, Highland, NY 12528

Speakers include:

Plant Pathologist: Dr. David Rosenberger
• Organic tree fruit disease management

Horticulturalist: Steve Hoying
• Slender spindle orchard establishment, training and pruning

Organic Tree Fruit Extension Educator: Emily Cook
• IPM in organic tree fruit production systems

Entomologist: Peter Jentsch
• Developing biological mite management, sustainable nematode seeding for plum curculio control, brown marmorated stink bug trap and kill systems.

This program is sponsored by NOFA-NY through the NYSDAM, Risk Management and Crop Insurance Education Targeted States Program

Small Acreage Organic Orchard Success
Small Acreage Organic Orchard Success

About Peter J Jentsch

Peter J. Jentsch serves the mid-Hudson Valley pome fruit, grape and vegetable growers as the Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Entomology for Cornell University’s Hudson Valley Laboratory located in Highland, NY. He provides regional farmers with information on insect related research conducted on the laboratory’s 20-acre research farm for use in commercial and organic fruit and vegetable production. Peter is a graduate of the University of Nebraska with a Masters degree in Entomology. He is presently focusing on invasive insect species, monitoring in the urban environment and commercial agricultural production systems throughout the state
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