The annual Cornell Research Field Day will be held August 1st at Musgrave Research Farm in Aurora N.Y from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. This event will include walking and hay wagon tours with multiple different tour stops and speakers. The program is free and open to the public. A light breakfast and lunch will also be provided.
Tour Stops and Speaker List:
- Vipan Kumar: Herbicide programs for weed control in corn and soybean
- Mike Hunter & Lynn Sosnoskie: Weed seed movement and the importance of cleaning equipment
- Louis Longchamps: On-farm experimentation, robotic interseeding
- Ginny Moore and Erika Everest: Dry-bean presentation and tasting (tasting over lunch)
- Quirine Ketterings and Kirsten Workman: Value of manure and SSEA approach
- Lilly Elliott & Katja Poveda: Seedcorn maggot: predicting damage risk in New York
- Kristen Loria and Matt Ryan: Balancing trade offs when no-till planting into cover crops
- Joseph Amsili: Soil health benchmarks, carbon stocks, and solar farms
For more information visit https://cals.cornell.edu/2024-aurora-farm-field-day or contact Louis Longchamps at ll928@cornell.edu