Farming Magazine - December, 2009

GROWING

New England Vegetable & Fruit - Conference and Trade Show

The 2009 New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference and Trade Show (NEVFC) will be held December 15-17 in Manchester, N.H., at the Center of New Hampshire Radisson Hotel. The program features five concurrent sessions every morning and every afternoon for three days. Each session includes five 30-minute presentations focused on major vegetable, berry and tree fruit crops topics.

Attendees can receive CCA (certified crop advisor) and PAT (pesticide applicator training) credits. For a listing of sessions and their credits visit www.newenglandvfc.org/education_credits.html.

The conference trade show features over 100 exhibitors with products from pest controls and fertilizers, seeds and plants, cultivation and irrigation equipment, to packaging and promotional materials. The trade show opens an hour and a half before the educational sessions and is open during lunch and after the sessions.

The NEVFC Farmer-to-Farmer sessions are informal roundtable discussions led by experienced farmers that take place midday and late afternoon. Topics include winter greens production; success with SARE farmer grants; diverse crops in high tunnels; learning with new farmers; growing great strawberries; cut flowers; equipment for weed control; disease management; grapes and farm wineries; seed selection and varieties; and saving seeds.

The event is sponsored by the New England Vegetable and Berry Growers Association and the Massachusetts Fruit Grower’s Association in conjunction with the Universities of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Maine, as well Cornell University and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

The preregistration fee to attend any part or all of the conference or trade show is $90 for the first member of the farm or business and $60 for each additional member (family and/or employee) when preregistered with first member. The preregistration fee for students (high school or college) is $40 each when preregistered by the instructor.

Preregistrations must be received by November 30. You can preregister and pay for the conference online, or print out the registration form and mail it in with your payment. See www.newenglandvfc.org/registration.html.

There is an additional fee of $10 per person for late registration or walk-ins.

2009 Trade Show Exhibitors Adams County Nursery, Inc. Allens Seed Applied Ag Tech Arthur Carroll Insurance Arysta Life Sciences N.M. Bartlett, Inc. BASF Corp. Bayer Crop Science BCS-O’Neill & Associates Belle Terre Irrigation Berger Peat Moss Bird Gard/JBW Marketing Bluefire Direct, LLC Brookdale Fruit Farm CAS Pack, LLC Certis, USA, LLC Charles W. Harris Co., Inc. Country Folks Grower Crop Production Services Devon Lane Farm Supply Dow AgroSciences Dubois Agrinovation Dupont Crop Protection Empire Packaging Farming and Growing Magazines (Moose River Media) First Pioneer Farm Credit Gowan Griffin Greenhouse and Nursery Supply Gro Mor Harris Seeds Haygrove Tunnels Helena High Mowing Organic Seeds Hill and Markes, Inc. Hillside Cultivator Hillside Orchard Farms Johnny’s Selected Seeds Liquid Fence Co. Kirby Agri, Inc. Mechanical Transplanter Co. New England Seed Co. New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation North Country Organics Northeast SARE Nourse Farms, Inc. OESCO Paul B, LLC PCA Supply Services Pennsylvania Service and Supply, Inc. Pyramid Publishing Resource Management, Inc. River Valley Fencing The Rite Package Co. Seeds of Change Seedway Shafer Organic Liquid Fish Fertilizer Siegers Seed Specialty Agricultural Products, LLC Stanley Paper Co. Spec Trellising Stanley Paper Co. Stockbridge School of Agriculture Stokes Seed Summit Tree Sales Suterra, LLC Syngenta Crop Protection Tew Mfg. Corp. U.S. EPA Region 1 Pesticide Program Valent USA Vermont Compost Co. Wafler Nursery Wellscroft Fence System, LLC
Visit these folks at the show!
	Crop Production Services & Loveland Products, Inc. Crop Production Services & Loveland Products is a distributor for adjuvants, chemicals, nutritionals, seed, seed treatments and more.
	North Country Organics North Country Organics manufactures and distributes natural fertilizers, soil amendments and environmentally compatible pest controls.
	Northeast SARE The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program offering grants to farmers ag service providers, researchers and more.
	O’Neill Associates The BCS tiller has an all-gear transmission; attachments include a sickle bar mower, brush mower, snowblower, sweeper, plow, chipper shredder and more.
	Vermont Compost Co. Manure compost and Compost Plus with organic and mineral amendments. Fort Vee, Fort Light and Perennial/Large Container Mix Potting soils.