2022 CORNELL SEED GROWERS FIELD DAY

For seed growers, and other seed professionals

Place: NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn, 791 Dryden Rd., Rt. 366, Ithaca, NY

• 8:30-8:55         Registration, coffee, & networking
• 8:55                 Begin tour                                                                                                     
• 9:00-10:15       Small Grains: Breeding for Quality and Pest Resistance - Mark Sorrells and David Bensher
• 10:15-10:30     Using UAVs to model biomass accumulation and heritable growth patterns in alfalfa - Kelly Robbins and Ranjita Thapa  
• 10:30-10:45    Dual Cropping Alfalfa and Intermediate Wheatgrass - Virginia Moore
• 11:00-11:15     Forage Yield Trial Update and Potato leafhopper resistant alfalfa cultivars - Julie Hansen
• 11:15-11:30    Cover Crop and Forage Breeding - Virginia Moore
• 11:30-11:45    Are cannabinoids a defense against chewing herbivores? - George Stack
• 11:45-noon      Switchgrass and resistance to Anthracnose and Smut - Ryan Crawford
• 12:00               Adjourn

DEC and CCA continuing education credits approved for those attending the full morning meeting.