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Valent Pome Fruit Portfolio Webinars - Free
Join Our Upcoming Valent Pome Fruit Portfolio Webinars
Each webinar will cover timely topics to help prepare you for the upcoming apple season. Each webinar will include an expert panel as well as time for questions and answers.
The expert panel will include:
- Phil Schwallier, Michigan State University
- Greg Clarke, Senior Field Market Development Specialist, Valent
- Poliana Francescatto, Valent BioSciences
- Eric Ott, Field Market Development Specialist, Valent
- Valent Territory Sales Reps
Event Details
Date
April 1, 2020
Time
12-12:30pm
Location
Webinar - Register to receive meeting log-in instructions & link
Cost
FREE
Host
Webinar #1: Pre-Season
Webinar #1: Pre-season
April 1, 12-12:30 p.m. EDT
Free - Register to receive log-in instructions & link to webinar
Topics that will be covered:
- Extend pollination period to enhance fruit set in apples, pears and cherries
- Improve fruit set following a frost event
- Improved branching and revitalizing blind wood
- Improved vigor on new plantings
- Control of San Jose scale and codling moth
- Long-lasting weed control in young orchards
Each webinar will cover timely topics to help prepare you for the upcoming apple season. Each webinar will include an expert panel as well as time for questions and answers.
The expert panel will include:
- Phil Schwallier, Michigan State University
- Greg Clarke, Senior Field Market Development Specialist, Valent
- Poliana Francescatto, Valent BioSciences
- Eric Ott, Field Market Development Specialist, Valent
- Valent Territory Sales Reps
Event Details
Date
April 8, 2020
Time
12-12:30pm
Location
Webinar - Register to receive meeting log-in instructions & link
Cost
FREE
Host
Webinar #2: Pre-thinning
Webinar #2: Pre-thinning
April 8, 12-12:30 p.m. EDT
To log-in to the webinar, dial: 1 (213) 336-0340
Enter user ID: 12483243#
Topics that will be covered:
- Timing and use of PGR to optimize fruit size and quality
- Thinning and sizing
- Russet control plus improved fruit quality
- Codling moth, leaf rollers and San Jose scale protection
Each webinar will cover timely topics to help prepare you for the upcoming apple season. Each webinar will include an expert panel as well as time for questions and answers.
The expert panel will include:
- Phil Schwallier, Michigan State University
- Greg Clarke, Senior Field Market Development Specialist, Valent
- Poliana Francescatto, Valent BioSciences
- Eric Ott, Field Market Development Specialist, Valent
- Valent Territory Sales Reps
Apples
Apricots
Asian Pears
Blueberries
Cherries
Currants
Gooseberries
Nectarines
Peaches
Pears
Plums
Raspberries / Blackberries
Strawberries
Unusual Fruit
Upcoming Events
2025 Apple Social
July 17, 2025 : Wayne County - Apple Social
Williamson, NY
Please join us at this casual networking event for all apple industry folks from Western NY, proudly sponsored by Valent. There will be a brief introduction of the Lake Ontario Fruit Program, and from attending specialists.
July 24, 2025 : Orleans County - Apple Social
Lyndonville, NY
Please join us at this casual networking event for all apple industry folks from Western NY, proudly sponsored by Valent. There will be a brief introduction of the Lake Ontario Fruit Program, and from attending specialists.
2025 Cornell In-Depth Fruit School Recordings
April 8, 2025
July 31, 2025
: Recording Available for 2025 Cornell In-Depth Fruit School
Access to the 2025 Cornell In-Depth Fruit School recordings are now available for purchase.
3rd Annual Western NY Fruit Growers Tour, Featuring Wayne County
July 31, 2025
Registration open!
We are excited to announce the 3rd annual Western New York Fruit Grower Tour, the premier fruit tour of the northeast brought to you by Cornell Cooperative Extension's Lake Ontario Fruit Program and Lake Ontario Ag Consulting, LLC! Located in Wayne County, this orchard field day will highlight new and existing products, chemistries, practices, technologies & equipment that shape the orchard industry today. The Western NY Fruit Grower Tour will again combine two past orchard tour events, the LOF Summer Fruit Tour and the Wayne County Fruit Grower Tour, giving industry members the opportunity to conveniently showcase their product offerings to ONE unified group at ONE time and place!
* Schedule subject to change.