JUNE 2008

Monday,
June 2, 2008

Small Grains Management Field Day
The Field Day will be held at the Musgrave Research Farm, 1256 Poplar Ridge Road, Aurora, New York. This year’s program will focus on "Wheat Management in a Time of High Prices"

* View winter wheat seeding rate x planting date, seed treatment, foliar fungicide, and variety plots on the Musgrave Farm
* Wheat markets and prices: What does the future hold?
* Rethinking wheat planting rate, planting date, and N fertility
* Rethinking wheat variety selection
* Rethinking foliar fungicides
* Producers perspectives on wheat management in a time of high prices
* Updates from all sectors of the small grains industry

All are welcome to attend, no fee! DEC and CCA Credits will be available. Let us know if you plan to attend or for more information, contact Larissa Smith, 607-255-2177 or lls14@cornell.edu or Gary Bergstrom, gcb3@cornell.edu

Wyoming County Dairy Fest
Held at 4-H Camp Wyomoco
Varysburg, NY

"Let's Use Herbs" Workshop

We love to grow them. We love to cook with them. But how about all the other herb uses? This interactive workshop will introduce you to some new uses for herbs. Walk away with some easy recipes for household uses and just for fun, you’ll make and take an herbal bread mix and a recipe or two.

Workshop Fee: $10.00 includes all Supplies & Herbal Snack --
Pre-Registration Necessary

Instructor: Betsy Moll — Master Gardener, Wyoming County and Docent, Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens

Maple Confections Workshop II
Western PA and Eastern Ohio

Contact: Robert S. Hansen, D.F., Extension Educator - Forest Resources, Penn State Cooperative Extension, 701 South Fourth Street, Towanda, PA 18848-1023, (570) 265-2896, rsh7@psu.edu

Dressage Show
at Drill Team Arena in Warsaw
(See page 26 of the May/June 2008 4-H News)

Introduction to Growing Stone Fruit
Registration due June 5
Learn how to grow peaches, plums and cherries at CCE's 'Introduction to Growing Stone Fruit' workshop on June 7, 9:00am to 12:30 pm, at Reisingers Orchard, 2750 Apple Lane, Watkins Glen, NY.

Orchardist Rick Reisinger will discuss site selection, planting, fertilization, bird netting and harvest criteria. Cornell fruit pathologist Kerik Cox will teach how to ID and manage diseases, and Hugh Ink, manager of Cornell's orchards, will teach participants how to apply pest controls with various small scale sprayers. The instruction will be geared towards serious home gardeners and people interested in starting a small scale commercial orchard. Emphasis will be on sustainable production practices. The workshop will be held in the orchard so dress for the weather.

The $10 fee includes light refreshments. Pre-registration is required. For questions, driving directions and to pre-register, call 607-687-4020.

Open House at Camp Wyomoco

Posse Horse Show
at Posse Grounds in Warsaw

Small Farm Equipment (Part 2)
"Gathering Small Equipment on a Low Budget"
Thorpes Organic Family Farm,
East Aurora, NY

For more information, please call Sharon Bachman at the Erie County Extension office at 716-652-5400.

4-H Homemaking Committee Meeting

4-H Program Committee Meeting

Saturday,
June 14, 2008

Maple Confection Workshop I
North East Ohio

Contact: Les Ober, Geauga County Extension 14269 Claridon Troy Rd Burton, OH 44021 Phone: (440) 834-4656

Growing With Horses Project

4-H Dairy Grade & Lease Paper Are Due

Registration Deadline for 4-H Standardbred Camp

Equitation Clinic
at Drill Team Arena
(See page 27 of the May/June 2008 4-H News)

Growing With Horses Farm Tour

4-H CACHE BASH '08

4-H Camp Bristol Hills will host its second annual 4-H Camp Cache Bash. The event welcomes families and will focus on geocaching, an outdoor activity using Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to pinpoint the location of caches (hidden treasures) placed by other players. This event is designed for experienced cachers as well as those interested in learning about the sport.

4-H Livestock Committee Meeting

4-H Dog Graduation
at Camp Wyomoco in Varysburg

JULY 2008

Seed Growers' Field Day

This annual event, focused on small grains and forages, will be held at the NYSIP Foundation Seed Barn on Rt. 266 in Ithaca, NY.

This year's agenda will feature presentations by people from the research programs of Dr. Mark Sorrells, Dr. Don Viands, Dr. Gary Bergstrom, and Alan Westra.

Sample of Agenda:

• Small Grain Varieties and Breeding for Quality and Pest Resistance
  Winter wheat variety recommendations; Jensen and other new varieties in the pipeline; Wheat CAP project; Breeding for Fusarium head blight and preharvest sprouting resistance; spring oat and spring barley recommendations
  
  
• Certified Seed Update
  Field Crops Pathology; small grain diseases; Brown root rot on alfalfa and forage grasses; Smut diseases and seed treatment in switchgrass
  
  
• Forage Varieties, Pest Management, and Breeding
  What forage yield trials are available for viewing? What effect does grass mixed with alfalfa have on potato leafhopper numbers and damage to alfalfa? What's new for alfalfa forage quality? Where are we at with breeding for resistance to alfalfa snout beetle and the clover root curculio? How are warm season grasses performing for biofuel use?

Registration and refreshments start at 8:30 AM and the program begins at 9:00 AM. DEC and CCA continuing education credits requested. Contact: Margaret Smith 607-255-1654, mes25@cornell.edu.

CDL Training Informational Meeting

4-H Dog Trial
at Sue Schum's in Alexander

Saturday,
July 12, 2008
11:00 a.m.

Field Crop Weed Control
at Robert B. Musgrave Research Farm
Aurora, NY

Registration deadline is July 7th. Call 607-255-7889.

CDL Training Program
For Wyoming County Producers

Class size is limited to 15 so please call Cindy Kiel at 585-786-2251 or e-mail her at cjk84@cornell.edu to reserve a seat.

4-H Clay Bead Workshop
(See page 18 of the May/June 2008 4-H News)

4-H Rider Evaluations
at Drill Team Arena in Warsaw

Aurora Field Day
at Robert B. Musgrave Research Farm
Tours of Plots
Call 607-255-7889.

Landscape Horticulture 2008 Short Course
Cornell campus
Starting at 10 AM on Wednesday, 7/23 and concluding at noon on Thursday, 7/24).

The program is geared toward extension educators, nursery operators, and landscape maintenance professionals (and other folks seriously interested in maintaining and growing landscape plants), and will consist of classroom instruction and site visits in the Ithaca area. Coverage will include invasive species (both plants and insects), pest management, new evergreen species, and other topics of current interest. Offered by the Landscape Horticulture Program Work Team, and will provide certification credits for DEC, ISA, CNP, and Landscape Architecture.

Contact Paul Weston, Woody Ornamentals Entomologist, Department of Entomology, Cornell University at 607-255-0165 or paw23@cornell.edu.

Regional Horse Judging
Chautauqua County Fairgrounds
(See page 22 of the May/June 2008 4-H News)

4-H Dog Trial
Wyoming County Fairgrounds in Pike

Perennial Biofeedstock Tour and Speakers
Big Flats Plant Materials Center

To register, please call 607-652-8404.

AUGUST 2008

Monday,
August 4, 2008
7:00 p.m.

4-H Tour and Gladiola Project Meeting
Jack Spencer's Farm in Perry

2008 Wyoming County 4-H Meat Animal Auction
" Hogs"
at Wyoming County Fairgrounds in Pike, NY

Wyoming County Fair
Pike, NY

• Official County Fair Web Site

Potato Association of America Annual Meeting and Conference
Buffalo, NY

New York State Fair

OCTOBER 2008

2008 NY Beef Tour to PA
8th Biannual NY Beef Producers Tour

This year we will be traveling to Pennsylvania. Planned tour stops include commercial and seedstock cow/calf operations, feedlots, organic beef production and packing plant, grass finished production and marketing, Pennsylvania Bull Test station, the PSU Beef Experiment station and the Gettysburg Battle Field.

For more information contact Mike Baker, Cornell Beef Extension Specialist, 607-255-5923, mjb28@cornell.edu. Watch http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/beef/ for upcoming details.

Maple Confection I Workshop
Ontario County

Contact: Russell Welser, Cornell Cooperative Extension Ontario County , 480 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424, Phone: 585.394.3977, Fax: 585.394.0377, e-mail rw43@cornell.edu

NOVEMBER 2008

DECEMBER 2008

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Wyoming County
ANNUAL MEETING
Theme: 4-H Camp Wyomoco