In this Issue:
GUEST ARTICLES
MFVGA Educational Conferences and Workshops Planned for 2005-2006
Experience Event - Just another Matrix? web only
VEGETABLE NEWS
Vegetable Insect Summary for Minnesota, 2005: Maggots, Beetles and Leafhoppers
Vegetable Insect Summary for Minnesota, 2005: European Corn Borer and Corn Earworm
GRAPE NEWS
Insect Pest Summary for Wine Grapes in Minnesota, 2005
APPLE & STRAWBERRY NEWS
The MDA's 2005 Apple and Strawberry Integrated Pest Management Program
Are Dogwood Borers Infesting Minnesota Orchards?
| Vol 2 No.15 | September 30, 2005 |
Educational Conferences and Workshops Planned for 2005-2006
Several educational conferences and workshops are being planned by the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, the U of M Extension Service and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to be held in the upcoming months. These institutions are equal opportunity providers.
The 2006 Upper Midwest Regional Fruit & Vegetable Growers Conference will be held on February 2 & 3, 2006 at the St. Cloud Civic Center in St. Cloud, MN. Sessions are planned on marketing, berry production, apple and other tree fruit production and vegetable production including sessions on asparagus, sweet corn, carrots & onions, specialty crops and pumpkins. Several grower profiles are included in the program.
Expanded high tunnel production sessions will address the needs of producers new to high tunnel production as well as those who have used the technology for several years.
The organic sessions will include an organic overview and discussions on cover crops, compost and weed biology. We will also discuss alternatives to organic certification, how to deal with customer perceptions and starting and running a CSA.
Additional sessions will focus on displays and merchandising and how new technology can help you better manage your operation. The trade show will run on Thursday and Friday, February 2 & 3, also at the St. Cloud Civic Center.
Two separate workshops will be held at the St. Cloud Civic Center right before the Upper Midwest Regional Fruit & Vegetable Growers Conference. A Beginning Grower Workshop will be held on January 31 and February 1, 2006 and an Estate Planning Workshop will be held on February 1, 2006.
We are also planning one-day workshops for farmers’ market vendors and managers. Separate workshops will be held in the fall (2005) and the spring of 2006. A workshop for producers who want to sell processed foods under the new “Pickle Bill” will be held in the spring of 2006.
Partial funding is provided through a partnership agreement with the USDA-Risk Management Agency. Further information on all of the workshops and conferences will be available from the Minnesota Fruit & Vegetable Growers Association. Contact the MFVGA office at 763-434-0400 if you would like to be added to the MFVGA Newsletter mailing list. Information will also be posted to the MFVGA website at http://www.mfvga.org/ as plans are finalized.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Co-Editors: Bill Hutchison (hutch002@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Jeanne Ciborowski, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Ag. Resources Management and Development Division, and Suzanne Wold-Burkness (woldx018@umn.edu), Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota
The Newsletter is published weekly from May through August, cooperatively, by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the University of Minnesota (U of MN). Reports are posted on the U of MN and MDA web sites on Fridays. If you have suggestions and/or comments, please send your contributions by 4 p.m., Wednesday to Jeanne Ciborowski, 651-297-3217, jeanne.ciborowski@state.mn.us , MDA, 90 W. Plato Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55107-2094. You can access the Newsletter at the U of MN web site in htm format at: www.vegedge.umn.edu/MNFruit&VegNews/mnindex.htm and at the MDA web site in pdf format at: www.mda.state.mn.us/biocon/fruitreports/
Partial funding for this publication is provided through partnership agreements with the Minnesota Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (MFVGA) and the United States Department of Agriculture – Risk Management Agency (RMA). These institutions are equal opportunity providers.
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