Fruit Track 9:00 am-9:30 am - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 WORKSHOP: Beginning Apple Growing- Introduction to the workshop – Peter Hirst
Fruit Track 9:30 am-10:00 am - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 Getting Started – what equipment do you need? – Thomas Roney
Fruit Track 10:00 am-10:30 am - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 Wholesale, retail, agritourism – marketing options – Jim Finley
CCA TrackFruit Track 11:00 am-11:30 am - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 What varieties to plant and where to get trees – Calvin Beasley
CCA TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 1:00 pm-2:00 pm - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 A-Z of orchard management – Peter Hirst
CCA TrackCCH TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 2:00 pm-3:00 pm - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 Pest and Disease Management Workshop Excerpt: Pest Management – Dr. Elizabeth Long-Dr. Long will provide a brief overview of common insect pests for beginner-level apple growers. Disease Management – Dr. Janna Beckerman Intro to the spray guide – Dr. Laura Ingwell >>> Read More.
Fruit Track 3:30 pm-4:00 pm - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 Beyond apples – what else can you sell? – Jim Finley
CCA TrackFruit Track 4:00 pm-4:30 pm - Rooms: Salon 7 and Salon 8 Top 10 mistakes made by beginner fruit growers – Sources of information- Peter Hirst and Ed Fackler
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 TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 10:30 am-11:00 am - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Bringing it into focus: A plant disease update for 2020 – Dr. Janna Beckerman
CCA TrackCCH TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 11:00 am-11:30 am - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Cultural and physical methods of weed management in strawberry and vegetables – Dr. Steve 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 TrackCCH TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 3:30 pm-4:00 pm - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Pollinators and pollinator-friendly habitat in fruit crops – Stephanie Frischie
CCA TrackCCH TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 4:00 pm-4:30 pm - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Implementing Pollinator Habitat On Your Farm: Technical and Financial Assistance Through The Farm Bill – Brianne Lowe
Fruit Track 8:30 am-9:00 am - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 The 2019 season – Grower round table discussion
CCA TrackCCH TrackFruit TrackPARP Track 9:00 am-9:30 am - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Glyphosate: Considerations for its use in 2020 – Dr. Stephen Meyers
Fruit Track 9:30 am-10:00 am - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Mr. Hirst goes to Washington – reflections from a year at USAID – Peter Hirst
Business / Marketing / AgriTourism / Succession Planning TrackFruit TrackGreenhouse / High Tunnel Production Track 10:00 am-10:30 am - Room: Atrium Coffee Break
Fruit Track 10:30 am-11:30 am - Rooms: Salon 1 and Salon 2 Indiana Horticultural Society Business meeting – President Matt Chandler presiding