2025 Cornell Seed Grower's Field Day

For seed growers, and other seed professionals

Agenda

8:30-8:55 am    Registration, coffee, & networking

8:55 am    Begin tour

9:00-10:15 am    Small Grains: Breeding for Quality and Disease Resistance  Mark Sorrells 

• White and red winter wheat varieties
• Spring oat and spring barley varieties
• High quality spring and winter malting barley varieties for NY
• Release of new winter malting barley variety LakeEffect
• Free-threshing emmer and spelt varieties
• Potential new hulless oat variety release
• Inventory of pest resistant and other new variety seed by crop type  RJ Richtmyer         

10:15-10:45 am    The Birds and Bees Act: How New Regulations on Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Will Shape Field Crop Production in NYS – Insights from Statewide Large-Scale Farm Trials  Alejandro Calixto

10:45 am-12:00 pm    Breeding of alfalfa, cover crops, vetch and dry beans  Virginia Moore

• Alfalfa-intermediate wheatgrass field experiment  Leah Treffler
• Alfalfa autotoxicity project  Jamie Crawford
• Cover crop variety availability  Solveig Hanson
• Vetch bruchid resistance project  Ryan Crawford
• Organic dry bean variety trials  Emily Fratz 

12:00 pm    Adjourn

DEC credits already approved for categories: 4, 10, 1a, and 21, with 3.0 credits per category. 
CCA education credits approved for 1.0 PM and 1.5 CM.