Lake Ontario Fruit Program Enrollment

Program Areas

  • Food Safety
  • Variety Evaluation
  • Market Development
  • Pest Management
  • Cultural Practices

Enrollment Benefits

  • Telephone / Email Consultations
  • Fruit Newsletter?
  • Direct Mailings
  • Educational Meetings & Conferences
  • In-Field Educational Opportunities
  • On-Farm Research Trials

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  • Helpful Diagnostic Tool:
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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

Webinar #1: Pre-Season

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

Webinar #2: Pre-thinning

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#

Join Skype Meeting 

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


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Currants

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Nectarines

Nectarines

Peaches

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Pears

Pears

Plums

Plums

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Upcoming Events

Annual LOF Advisory Committee Meeting

December 8, 2023
Spencerport, NY

Please join us for our winter advisory meeting, join the team and provide input for the 2nd Annual Tree Fruit Conference on February 8-9 in Rochester. Please pre-register by noon on December 7th.

Announcements

Scaffolds podcast

Many of you probably read Art Agnello's statewide tree fruit updates and recommendations newsletter, "Scaffolds". Dr. Monique Rivera is bringing it back, but in a new audio version. Episode one was recorded this week, and is now available for free online at https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scaffolds


Save the Date! - Scroll down for Upcoming Events

Have you missed a meeting recently? Scroll down for available recordings or pdf links or visits our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/LakeOntarioFruitProgram


2023

??? - Fire Blight Informational Webinar Series - Using weather and environmental conditions to optimize biologicals and biopesticides for bloom production - Will be rescheduled from October cancellation.

7&8 Dec - Northeast Latino/a/x Agricultural Community Conference - The Century House, Latham, NY, Registration by November 16

8 Dec - Annual LOF Advisory Committee Meeting - Ogden Town Hall, 9:30am - 2pm, please register by Dec 4th

8&9 Feb - 2nd Annual Lake Ontario Fruit Program's Winter Fruit Conference, at DoubleTree by Hilton Rochester, 1111 Jefferson rd., Rochester, NY 14623. Stay tuned here for more information.


Food Safety Virtual Office Hours

Cornell Institute of Food Safety "Virtual Office Hours", Tuesdays Noon to 1pm https://cals.cornell.edu/institute-for-food-safety/resources/virtual-office-hours

Past recorded virtual office hours can be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJs5b7KUuvfcquH3ZtQHo5dSmF2m5MdQ


Webinar Recordings

Check out the recordings of some recent webinars and/or conference materials from in person events:

PACMAN Briefings





Pollinator Resouces

Now available Pollinator Resource Links


Meeting Recordings Now Available

Did you miss the recent meeting?  Check and see if we recorded it and added it to our website or Lake Ontario Fruit Program YouTube Channel.

Honeycrisp Meetup recordings available here.

Why are my trees growing so poorly? recording available here.

Additional Recorded Webinars listing with recording and resource link are available at



New Publication on Growing Pawpaws

Are you a fan of pawpaws? These custardy fruits can be hard to come across, so this guide provides information on how to grow your own pawpaw from seed, and how to care for grafted seedlings. Pdf on growing now available.​ https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=799&crumb=crops|crops|unusual_fruit|crop*50

New Weed Management Technology Survey

Want to move away from herbicide reliance? Are you using novel technologies to manage weeds? We want to know about it to inform our weed science research. A team of weed scientists from University of California Davis, Oregon State University, and Cornell University are asking berry, tree fruit, tree nut, and vine crop growers to take 5 to 10 minutes and answer this short and anonymous survey. Weed Technology Survey link: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bEpfAijoP7puQDP

For more information on this survey please visit http://blogs.cornell.edu/swd1/2020/12/02/new-weed-management-technology/


Pollinator Webinar Series - Summer 2020

The Pollinator Webinar Series presented by Penn State cover bee health and pollination services.



Bloom Pesticides for Pollinator Health

A reference table created by Janet van Zoeren and Anna Wallis, is now available at https://lof.cce.cornell.edu/submission.php?id=711&crumb=pests|pests.