- July 21 – July 28, 2021, Join DEC’s Bureau of Pesticides Management for Three, 60-minute Informative Webinars
July 21, 2021, What to Expect When You’re Expecting (An Exterminator)
6:00 PM EDT
July 23, 2021, How to Become a Pesticide Applicator
6:00 PM EDT
July 28, 2021, New York State Pesticide Use and Regulations
6:00 PM EDT
- July 22, 2021, IPM In-Depth 2021 (online)
Time and Price TBA – Visit greenhouse.cornell.edu for full schedule and registration details.
NYS IPM and the Cornell Greenhouse Horticulture team are hosting their annual greenhouse IPM workshop online for the second year, which means it will be open to participants from the Capital District! Topics this year include different options for magnification in pest and pathogen identification (Brian Eshenaur), greenhouse mite management (John Sanderson), and water testing in fertility management (Neil Mattson).
- August 3–5, 2021, Empire Farm Days
9:00 AM-4:00 PM daily
For more information on the upcoming show, visit www.empirefarmdays.com.
The premier ag show of the Northeast will be back, at a new (old) location. Palladino Farms last hosted Empire Farm Days back in the 1980s, and they’re excited to welcome us back! Meet your vendors, ask questions, shake hands and buy the equipment you need.
- September 11, 2021, Farm Day Out
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County & Windy Hill Orchard for our annual Farm Day Out event!
Let’s talk Agriculture! Farm Day Out is a day-long event full of displays from local Ag businesses and organizations, activities, and a self-guided farm tour to help educate the public on different aspects of the world of agriculture.
One of our goals is to provide workshops and other resources to the producers within our community.
Workshops that have been provided in past include, but are not limited to Social Media Marketing, How to use your Harvest Connection Fam Page, Basic Poultry Management, FAMACHA, and Tick and Pesticide Management.
Our Team is more than happy to offer programs similar to those listed above, but we also want to present new programs based on what you need.
Please take our survey to help use see the needs in our community: https://qfreeaccountssjc1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6syc4xpPu4SPztI
We hope you are all having a great summer & if you have any questions or ideas, please contact Kayela at kls342@cornell.edu.
