Lean Management is a business concept intended to improve processes and increase productivity. It can be defined as “the dynamic process of continuous improvement by empowered employees, in a culture of mutual trust and respect, focused on eliminating waste and maximizing value for our customers”
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Tree Fruit Blog: Early Season Disease Management 2023
Līga Astra Kalniņa & Kerik Cox Cornell University Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section Assessing the upcoming 2023 apple scab season. Winter seemed to come late in early March, and only for a few weeks and with intermittent snow cover at best. Snow cover is effectively non-existent, and while it’s still cool in the evenings, Read More…
Online Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Train the Trainer Course Approved
Teresa Rusinek, Extension Specialist CCE Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Program The WPS is an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation intended to protect agricultural workers and pesticide handlers from risk of exposure. If you are an agricultural employer or manager, you must know your responsibilities under the WPS and provide WPS training and protections to employees. Read More…
Vegetables: Winter cutworm in high tunnel crops
Elisabeth Hodgdon, Extension Associate Cornell Cooperative Extension, ENYCHP In recent years, winter cutworm (Noctua pronuba) damage in high tunnel winter greens has been an increasingly widespread problem in the Northeast. While producers are accustomed to dealing with cutworms of various species on the farm, the extreme cold tolerance of winter cutworm takes some growers by Read More…
Weed of the Week: The Bedstraws
Aaron Gabriel, Extension Educator Cornell Cooperative Extension Capital Area Agriculture and Horticulture Program Smooth Bedstraw, Galium mollugo L. Catchweed bedstraw, Galium aparine L. False cleavers, Galium spurium L. The bedstraws and false cleavers are weeds mostly of hay fields and pastures, where they are highly competitive. Livestock usually avoid these weeds, although some will eat them. Bedstraws are slightly toxic. Read More…
Weed of the Week: Oriental Bittersweet
Laura Griffen McDermott, Senior Extension Associate Oriental Bittersweet is one of the most destructive weeds that perennial crop farmers and landowners confront. One of our readers encouraged us to include this challenging weed in our series, and because it has become such a problem for blueberry growers, we are focusing on it this week. Celastrus Read More…
Weed of the Week – Marestail / Horseweed
Aaron Gabriel, Cornell Cooperative Extension Horseweed or Marestail, Conyza canadensis, is a very problematic weed across New York, especially in reduced tillage systems and soybean crops. Marestail is resistant to several herbicides, including glyphosate, but that does not mean it is hard to control. Marestail grows as both a winter annual (germinating in the late Read More…
Management of Spotted-Wing Drosophila Webinar
Please join the Sustainable SWD Management Team on December 8, 2022 at 12:00pm EST for a one-hour webinar on “Advances in Behavior-Based Tactics for Management of Spotted-Wing Drosophila”. Register in advance for this webinar at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSqvqIkESmWY0Lv_p40Oig
Delegation: Key to Effective Management
“No-one seems to be able to make a decision without asking me. If I’m not there, work just stops.” said a farmer I met with recently. “I feel like I have enough people but the work isn’t getting done. If I could clone myself, I could get the work done.” Unfortunately managing others differs a Read More…
Visitor Food Safety Policies for a Successful Pick-Your-Own Season
Elisabeth Hodgdon, CCE ENYCHP With pick-your-own (PYO) apple season upon us, customers are eager to get outdoors and enjoy the fall season and orchard scenery. Welcoming visitors to the orchard requires many advanced preparations to ensure a positive experience for both customers and employees. Food safety considerations should be included in these preparations as well. Read More…
Perennial Broadleaf Issues? Consider Applying 2, 4-D and Clopyralid (Stinger) this Fall
Perennial Broadleaf Issues? Consider Applying 2, 4-D and Clopyralid (Stinger) this Fall Michael Basedow, CCE ENYCHP and David Bittner, Bittner-Singer Orchards While it is probably difficult to think about the post-harvest season at this time of year, I want to share a perennial weed management strategy now so you have time to plan accordingly in Read More…