The 2019 Cornell Seed Growers Field Day will take place on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm at the NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn, 791 Dryden Rd., (Rt. 366), Ithaca, NY. The program is intended for seed growers, seed treatment applicators, and other seed professionals. The agenda is as follows:
Registration, coffee, and networking (8:30-8:55)
Introduction, begin the tour (8:55)
Speakers: Mark Sorrells and Don Viands
Small Grains: Breeding for Quality and Pest Resistance.
Speaker: Mark Sorrells
- White and red winter wheat varieties and disease resistance
- Spring oat and spring barley varieties and disease resistance
- Born, bred, and brewed in NY: high-quality malting barley
- Spring vs. winter types
- Producing high malt quality grain in NY
- Organic naked barley
Small Grain, Forage, and Hemp Disease Management
Speaker: Gary Bergstrom
Certified and Foundation Seed Update, Seed Treatment Survey
Speaker: Phil Atkins
Forage Varieties, Pest Management, and Breeding
Speaker: Don Viands
- New yield data in perennial forages
- Update on resistance to potato leafhopper on alfalfa
- Update on resistance to brown root rot on alfalfa
- Resistance to clover root curculio in alfalfa
- Breeding for marginal lands
- Update on industrial hemp research: breeding, diseases, etc.
Glyphosate Transport from Runoff-prone Fields
Speaker: Brian Richards
DEC and CCA continuing education credits are requested.
Contact Margaret Smith (607-255-1654, mes25@cornell.edu) for the Field Day Planning Committee.
More information at events.cornell.edu