New York Nut Growers Association Summer Meeting, Saturday, August 12, 2023

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties, Acra, NY

Main Program:

8:30 to 9:00     Breakfast and registration.

9:00 to 9:15     Opening Remarks
Jerry Henkin, NYNGA President, sproutnut@aol.com

9:15 to 9:30     Introduction to CCE Acra
Tracey Testo-Smith, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Educators

9:30 to 10:15     Yellowbud Hickory Oil and the Pursuit of Reliable Tree-based Staple Crops
Jesse Marksohn

10:15 to 10:40    Agrovoltaics: Incorporating Solar Energy with Silvopasture and Enhancing the Growth of Crops
Jeremy Wyble (NYSERDA) and Jared Buono (Cornell Hudson Valley Research Laboratory)

10:40 to 11:00   BREAK - snack on black walnut jam from Hammons Black Walnuts

11:00 to 11:20   Plant Tissue Analysis, the Importance of Boron, Soil Analysis, Mycorrhizae
Carl Albers, NYNGA Vice President

11:20 to 11:40   Nut Tree Grafting
Jeff Zarnowski, jeffz@znutty.com, Z's Nutty Ridge Nursery

11:40 to 12:00   Chip Budding
Cindy Defelice

12:00 to 12:20   Update on NYNGA English Walnut Project
Jeff Zarnowski, jeffz@znutty.com, Z's Nutty Ridge Nursery

12:20 to 1:30     LUNCH

1:30 to 3:00      Roundtable groups on walnuts, hickories, chestnut, hazelnut, grant writing, pawpaws; distribution of English walnut seedlings; announcement of NNGA Conference at SUNY Syracuse, July 21 - 24, 2024.

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