Fresh Vegetables Track 11:00 am-12:00 pm - Room: Salon 3 Indiana Vegetable Growers Association Business Meeting – President John Young presiding
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 1:00 pm-1:30 pm - Room: Salon 3 Understanding Soil Tests – Dr. Wenjing Guan and Dr. Liz Maynard Excerpt: This presentation reviews the different types of tests that can be useful in vegetable production. Their usage and limitations, and how to interpret the results. >>> Read More.
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 1:30 pm-2:00 pm - Room: Salon 3 Soil Nitrogen in a Wet Year – Dr. J. Camberato
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables Track 2:00 pm-2:30 pm - Room: Salon 3 Reduced tillage systems for vegetable production – Dr. Ajay Nair Excerpt: Strip-tillage production system with rolled and crimped cereal rye has been shown to promote soil health, resulting in significant increases in soil aggregate stability, potentially mineralizable nitrogen, active soil carbon, and microbial activity when compared to a conventionally tilled production system. To make strip-tillage and no-tillage systems viable options for growers, it is crucial to >>> Read More.
CCA TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 2:30 pm-3:00 pm - Room: Salon 3 Sweetpotato- Advice from a Former Sweetpotato Specialist – Dr. Stephen Meyers
Fresh Vegetables Track 3:30 pm-4:00 pm - Room: Salon 3 Season Your Market Line-up with Herbs – J. Miller
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 4:00 pm-5:00 pm - Room: Salon 3 Specialty Melon Production – Dr. Petrus Langenhoven and Dr. Wenjing Guan Excerpt: This presentation will introduce growers to specialty melon production. Information that will be covered include cultivar selection, production practices, fruit peel characteristics and microbial load, and consumer segment characterization. >>> Read More.
Agronomic Crop Production TrackAgTech TrackBusiness / Marketing / AgriTourism / Succession Planning TrackFarm 360 TrackFood Safety TrackFresh Vegetables TrackFruit TrackGreenhouse / High Tunnel Production TrackHemp TrackJoint Plenary Session TrackUrban Agriculture TrackWine Grape Track 8:00 am-8:30 am - Rooms: Salon 4 and Salon 5 Joint Plenary Session Excerpt: -Updates from the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture – Dr. Aaron Patton, Department Head, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University -Purdue Extension Update – Dr. Jason Henderson, Associate Dean in the College of Agriculture and Director of Purdue Extension -Update from the College of Agriculture at Purdue University – Dr. Karen Plaut, Glenn W. >>> Read More.
Agronomic Crop Production TrackAgTech TrackBusiness / Marketing / AgriTourism / Succession Planning TrackFarm 360 TrackFood Safety TrackFresh Vegetables TrackFruit TrackGreenhouse / High Tunnel Production TrackHemp TrackJoint Plenary Session TrackUrban Agriculture TrackWine Grape Track 8:30 am-10:00 am - Room: Salon 4 Joint Plenary Session Excerpt: -Keynote: Suzanne Crouch, Lt. Governor, State of Indiana -Keynote: Promoting Horticulture and Inspiring People to Pursue Careers in Plants – Susan Yoder, Seed Your Future -Keynote: Hemp Renaissance: the fusion of an ancient plant, 21st-century technology and Yankee ingenuity – Michael Bowman, Co-founder of First Crop, Inc. >>> Read More.
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 10:30 am-11:00 am - Room: Salon D Common herbicide misapplications and how to avoid them – Dr. Stephen Meyers
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 11:00 am-11:30 am - Room: Salon D Sprayer Equipment and Parts- Breaking Down the Basics – Dr. Bryan Young
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 11:30 am-12:00 pm - Room: Salon D Automated and Non-Herbicidal Weed Control – Dr. Steven Fennimore
Farm 360 TrackFood Safety TrackFresh Vegetables TrackFruit TrackGreenhouse / High Tunnel Production TrackWine Grape Track 1:00 pm-3:00 pm - Rooms: Salon 1, Salon 2, Salon 3, Salon A, Salon B, Salon C, Salon D, and Salon E Poster
CCA TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 3:30 pm-4:30 pm - Room: Salon D Workshop: Cover Crops and No-Till Vegetable Farming- Steve Groff Excerpt: >>> Read More.
CCA TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 4:30 pm-5:30 pm - Room: Salon D Cover Crop Workshop continued: Cover Crops in Vegetables Panel Discussion – Moderator Michael O’Donnell, Panelists Kevin Allison, Kevin Baird, Lisa Hopman, Chuck Mohler
Fresh Vegetables Track 7:30 pm-8:30 pm - Room: Salon D Roundtable Discussion: Cover Cropping – Steve Groff
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 8:00 am-8:30 am - Room: Salon D What Products Work Best for Bacterial Spot of Tomato? – Dr. Dan Egel
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 8:30 am-9:00 am - Room: Salon D Pepper Weevil on the Horizon? – Dr. Elizabeth Long Excerpt: Dr. Long will briefly highlight common insect pests of peppers, including flies, aphids, caterpillars, and mites. The majority of this session will focus on the pepper weevil, a small snout beetle that attacks all pepper types. I will provide a brief overview of pepper weevil biology and management in pepper production. >>> Read More.
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 9:00 am-9:30 am - Room: Salon D Keeping Aphids Under Control – Dr. Laura Ingwell
Food Safety TrackFresh Vegetables TrackWine Grape Track 9:30 am-10:00 am - Room: Tradeshow - Liberty Hall Coffee Break & Expo
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 10:00 am-10:30 am - Room: Salon D Implementing IPM in pollinator-dependent crops – Dr. Laura Ingwell
CCA TrackCCH TrackFresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 10:30 am-11:00 am - Room: Salon D Implementing Pollinator Habitat On Your Farm: Technical and Financial Assistance Through The Farm Bill – Brianne Lowe
Fresh Vegetables TrackPARP Track 11:00 am-12:00 pm - Room: Salon D Introducing the new online format of the Midwest Vegetable Production Guide (ID-56) – Dr. Dan Egel, Dr Liz Maynard, Dr. Laura Ingwell, Dr. Elizabeth Long and Dr. Stephen Meyers