Cover Crop and Reduced Tillage Workshop for Organic Vegetable Growers

Please Join us for our cover crop workshop targeted for small scale vegetable producers. Speakers from NRCS, Cornell University, and Kings Agriseeds. Observe multiple cover crop plots and reduced tillage demonstration.

Cover Crop and Reduced Tillage Workshop for Organic Vegetable Growers

10/16/15

Emily Reiss (10:00 – 10:45) - Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture Section, Graduate Student; How Cover Crops Benefit Soil Health.

Brian Caldwell (10:45 – 11:15) - Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil & Crop Sciences Section, Research Support Specialist; Planting Windows to get the Most Out of Your Cover Crops.

Dave Wilson (11:15 – 11:45) - King’s Agriseeds, Research Agronomist, Cover Crop Mixes: Selection, Adaptation and Value.

Anu Rangarajan (11:45 – 12:30) - Cornell University, Small Farms Program, Director; Multiple Strategies to Reduce Tillage on Diversified Vegetable Farms.

Lunch - 12:30 – 1:15

Matthew Glen and Liz Martin (1:15 – 1:45) - Muddy Fingers Farm, Hector NY. An intensive, small scale, highly diversified farm using a permanent bed system with a flock of laying hens in their rotation. They have about 100 CSA shares plus sell at 3 farmers markets.

Reduced Tillage Demonstration (1:45 – 2:30) - Anu Rangarajan and Ryan Maher, Cornell Small Farms Program.

Tour of Cover Crop Demonstration Plots (2:30 – 3:30) - Paul Salon- NRCS, Plant Materials Specialist, Dave Wilson- King’s Agriseeds, Research Agronomist, Brian Caldwell- Cornell University; Cover Crop Demonstration with over 250 plots (species, varieties, seeding rates and mixes) seeded at several dates.

Sponsored by the USDA-NRCS Plant Materials Program, and the Upper Susquehanna Coalition

Lunch available for $10.00,

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For additional information contact paul.salon@ny.usda.gov or by calling 607-562-8404. This is a field tour let us know if you have special needs.

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.

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