Registration 9:15 am – 9:45 am
Tour of cc demo at Big Flats PMC 9:45 am – 11:15 am
Travel to Town Hall 11:15 am – 11:30 am
Speakers 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Speakers 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Ray Archuleta – East National Technology Center, Conservation Agronomist; Soil Quality, Health, Biology and Cover Crops. Reduction of Chemical Inputs through Soil Health.
Quirine Ketterings – Cornell University Dept. of Animal Science, Associate Professor, Nutrient Management Spear Program; Winter-Forage Small Grains to Boost Feed Supply: From Cover Crop to Double Crop
Klaas Martens – Organic Grain and Cover Crop Seed Producer Penn Yan, NY; On Farm Cover Crop Research and Development.
Charlie White – Penn State University, Extension Specialist; Cover Crop Combinations of Fava Bean, Red Clover and Triticale, Review Plots at Big Flats PMC and Discuss Plots at Penn State and other On-Farm Research in Pennsylvania.
Aaron Ristow – Agriculture Coordinator, Upper Susquehanna Coalition (USC); Cover Cropping within the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Framework.
Paul Salon – USDA-NRCS, Plant Materials Specialist. Tour of Cover Crop Demonstration Plots, which includes a Time of Planting Demo with over 80 plots (species, varieties or mixes)with some seeded at several seeding dates.
There may be a (to be confirmed) demonstration of an innovative, no-till inter-row cover crop seeder from Penn. State. Supported by an NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant.
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*To register, click on the link below or copy and paste the URL and scroll down to register button:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=7ex5qzeab&oeidk=a07e6elpb3817b400b3
*For additional information contact paul.salon@ny.usda.gov or by calling 607-562-8404. There will be a morning field tour. Let us know if you have special needs. Please bring $10.00 to cover the cost of lunch. 4.00 CCA and PA NM credits available
Directions: Take Route 17 (I 86) to Exit 48 (East Corning/Route 352). Follow Route 352 east for 1.5 miles. PMC entrance is on the left. To Town Hall/Municipal Campus – Route 17 (I86) Exit 49 go south on Bridge St., Make left at “T” onto Maple St., go .4 miles- BF Municipal Campus is on right.
Hosted by the USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Program in cooperation with the Upper Susquehanna Coalition, Empire State Chapter Soil and Water Conservation Society and Cornell Cooperative Extension.
