Berry Growers of Ontario– Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention Berry Program

Berry Growers of Ontario– Ontario Fruit and VegetableConvention Berry Program Tuesday, February 18, 2020 – Embassy Suites, Niagara Falls 9:00 am Introduction and Welcome 9:10 am Grower

Berry Growers of Ontario– Ontario Fruit and Vegetable

Convention Berry Program

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 – Embassy Suites, Niagara Falls

9:00 am Introduction and Welcome

9:10 am Grower SWD Monitoring Update Hannah Fraser & Erica Pate, OMAFRA 9:25 am Grower Profile, Proulx Farms Nicolas Simard, Proulx Farm

10:10 am Growing in Substrates Shawn Mallen, AMA Hort

10:40 am MyIPM & Understanding Diseases with

Art and Technology

Guido Schnabel, Clemson University

11:10-11:40 Leaf Reflectance Responses by

Strawberry Plants to Fertilizer Regimes and Arthropod Stressors

Christian Nansen, UC Davis

11:40-12:10 Digitizing Your Operation - It's Easier

Than You Think!

John Cooper, Strawberry Tyme, Jeff Chemeres, Croptracker, Inc

12:10 Lunch BGO Annual Meeting

Marketing Track- Production Track –

2:00 pm How to Develop a Brand Persona?

What is a brand and how to maintain your brand voice?

Nicole Marenick, Maren Marcoux Marketing

Using a Strawberry Anthracnose Model in Ontario -Erica Pate, OMAFRA

2:30 pm Spray Volume and Travel Speed-

panel, Strawberry Tyme, James Herrle, Herrle’s Country Farm Market, David Manktelow, Applied Research and Technologies Ltd & Jason Deveau, OMAFRA

3:00 pm Responding to Negative Media

Reactions, speaker TBC

Project Update- Novel Approaches to SWD Monitoring, Wendy

McFadden-Smith, OMAFRA

Production, Erica Pate, OMAFRA

3:30 pm Round tables

1. Using New SWD Traps on Your Farm

Erica Pate, OMAFRA

2 Managing media TBC

3. Using Different Spray Adjuvants and Managing Coverage

David Manktelow, Applied Research and Technologies Ltd Jason Deveau, OMAFRA

5:00 pm Adjourn

7:30 pm OBGA Hospitality Rm # 3903

Berry Growers of Ontario – Ontario Fruit and Vegetable

Convention Berry Program

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 – Scotiabank Convention Center, Niagara Falls

9:25 am Introduction and Welcome

9:30 am Re-evaluations- What Are the Impacts for Berry

Growers?

Chris Duyvelshoff, OFVGA

10:00 am Optimization of Drone-Based Releases of

Predatory Mites to Control Spider Mites in Strawberry Fields – Cutting-Edge Research

Christian Nansen, UC Davis

10:30 am Managing Berry Diseases with Reduced

Captan Use

Guido Schnabel, Clemson University

11:00 am SWD Insecticides: Impact on Natural Enemies Philip Fanning, Michigan State

University 11:30 am 2020 Bee Vectoring: Using Bees to Deliver

Bio-Control of Grey Mold to Strawberries Susan Chan, University of Guelph 11:45 - 2:00 Lunch and Visit the Trade Show

2:00 pm New Potential Management Options for

Cyclamen Mite and Spotted Wing Drosophila in Berry Crops

Justin Renkema, AAFC

2:30 pm What’s New in SWD Management Philip Fanning, Michigan State

University

3:00 pm Purespray Green in a Captan Replacement

Program

Matt Peters, NM Bartlett, Matt Tigchelaar, Tigchelaar Berry Farm

3:30 New and Upcoming Berry Varieties Charles Keddy, Keddy Nursery

Inc, Frederick LaForge, Production Lareault