Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 10:00 am
Martin Auction Barn, 1036 NY Route 318, Waterloo, NY (Temp. location)
NY Certified Organic Meeting (NYCO) NEW LOCATION for its 2020 meeting series. Martin Auction Barn, 1036 NY Route 318, Waterloo, NY, will host the meetings while the auditorium at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva is renovated.
Watch the website at http://blogs.cornell.edu/organicdairyinitiative/ for details on the February and March NYCO meetings. Speakers currently scheduled for the February 11 and March 10 NYCO meetings include: Heath Deway, a reporter with the USDA Department of Ag Market News Service, Greeley, CO, will talk about the world organic grain situation; John Hanchar, farm business management specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension Northwest NY Ag Team, will review a four-year economic study on transitioning to organic crop production at the Aurora Research Farm; McGeary Grains President Shawn Kilpatrick, Lancaster, PA, will share from his 20-plus years of experience in the quality organic grains, feed ingredients, and custom fertilizer industry; Cornell University Soil and Crop Sciences Professor Matthew Ryan and graduate student Uriel Menalled of the Sustainable Cropping Systems Lab at Cornell will discuss using organic no-till practices; Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Cornell University Assistant Professor of weed ecology and management for specialty crop systems, School of Integrative Plant Science, will speak on the cultural and ecological aspects of bindweed; and John Winchell from Alltec will discuss mycotoxins in forages. For more information, contact NYCO Meeting Coordinator Fay Benson with the Cornell Cooperative Extension South Central New York Dairy and Field Crops Team at afb3@cornell.edu or 607-745-3807.
