2015 Events - year view
previous yearJanuary 2015
NY FarmNet Farm Business Transfer Conference
January 13 - January 14, 2015
Tuesday 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, Wednesday 7:30 am - 3:00 pm
East Syracuse, NY
Choosing and developing future farm managers is the focus of, "Who Will Manage Your Farm Tomorrow," slated for January 13th-14th at the DoubleTree Hotel in East Syracuse. This conference provides farm families and their advisors critical information for helping the next generation find success on the farm and identifies effective management transfer strategies to implement.
February 2015
CCE 2015 Pesticide Training and Recertification Series
February 2 - March 2, 2015
Canandaigua, NY
The Core Pesticide Training Program Series is for the person who needs to acquire the knowledge to be able to take the Pesticide Core exam for a license to apply pesticides. Also this is for certified applicators, private or commercial, seeking re certification credits.
B.E.V. NY Sponsorship Opportunties
February 26 - February 28, 2015
7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Henrietta, NY
B.E.V. NY Trade Show Exhibitor Registration
February 26 - February 28, 2015
7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Henrietta, NY
March 2015
Wine Label Approval Workshop
March 26, 2015
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Seneca Falls, NY
Demaris Brown, labeling specialist with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau will speak on the wine label approval process. Demaris has been with the Advertising, Labeling and Formulation Division (ALFD) of the TTB for nearly five years.
April 2015
Mechanical Pruning Demo
April 2, 2015
5:00 pm
Hector, NY
The Finger Lakes Grape Program will b holding a mechanical pruning demonstration with Hazlitt Vineyards Thursday, April 2nd.
Dr. Markus Keller: Cold hardiness and cold damage in grapevines
April 7, 2015
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Geneva, NY
Dr. Markus Keller, professor of viticulture at Washington State University in Prosser, WA, will be discussing some of his work on understanding grapevine cold hardiness and preventing winter injury. Preregistration is requested.
May 2015
Tailgate Meeting May 5th
May 5, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Prattsburg, NY
Our annual series of tailgate meetings will be starting up again on Tuesday, May 5, with our first meeting taking place at Vine Country Farms (Roy and Gordon Taft) in Pulteney.
Finger Lakes Spring Grape IPM Meeting
May 12, 2015
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Geneva, NY
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 from 4:30 - 6:15 PMRavines Wine Cellars, 400 Barracks Road, Geneva, NY 14456.
Tailgate Meeting May 19th
May 19, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Hector, NY
Our second tailgate meeting will take place at Wickham's Tango Oaks (Fred Wickham) in Hector.
June 2015
Tailgate Meeting June 2nd
June 2, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
North Rose, NY
Our third tailgate meeting will take place at Smith Brothers Farms, (Dave Smith) in North Rose.
Tailgate Meeting June 16
June 16, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Branchport, NY
Our fourth tailgate meeting will take place at Bedient Vineyards (Jim Bedient) in Branchport.
Tailgate Meeting June 30
June 30, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Naples, NY
July 2015
Dr. Glen Creasy: Adapting Vineyard Practices to Meet Quality and Production Goals
July 1, 2015
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Ovid, NY
Dr. Glen Creasy, from Lincoln University in New Zealand, will be coming to the area next week and will be presenting a talk for Finger Lakes growers on how to adapt vineyard practices in the face of changing conditions every season in order to produce a profitable and high-quality grape crop. Glen is a native son of the Finger Lakes region, and received his Bachelor's degree from Cornell before moving on to Oregon State University, where he earned his Master's and Ph.D. He has been a faculty member at Lincoln University since 1998.
Tailgate Meeting July 14
July 14, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Lodi, NY
ASEV-Eastern Section Annual Conference
July 23 - July 25, 2015
Dunkirk, NY
The 40th ASEV-ES conference will be at the Clarion Hotel Marina and Conference Center in Dunkirk, NY on July 23-25, 2015. A pre-conference tour of New York and Pennsylvania vineyards and wineries will take place on Thursday, July 23rd. The conference will begin with technical presentations on July 24th-25th, and will also include Friday's Oenolympics Grazing Dinner with Wines of the East and Saturday's Sparkling Wine Reception and Grand Awards Banquet, when Dr. Wayne Wilcox will receive the Eastern Section's 2015 Outstanding Achievement Award.
For more information, visit the ASEV-Eastern Section website.
Tailgate Meeting July 28
July 28, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Hector, NY
August 2015
Tailgate Meeting August 11
August 11, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Dundee, NY
Tailgate Meeting for Winemakers
August 20, 2015
5:00pm
The main focus of this meeting is to provide area winemakers with some information about the 2015 growing season, how the season might affect this year's harvest, and discussing what we know (and don't know) about how various practices and factors in the vineyard do or don't influence fruit and wine quality.
Pre-Harvest Field Meeting
August 24, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Penn Yan, NY
The primary focus of this field meeting will be a couple of research projects being conducted by Dr. Justine Vanden Heuvel and her lab.
Final Tailgate Meeting of the Season is August 25
August 25, 2015
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Romulus, NY
Our annual series of tailgate meetings will conclude on Tuesday, August 25 with our final meeting at Buttonwood Grove Winery in Romulus.
September 2015
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October 2015
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November 2015
Cornell Recent Advances in Viticulture and Enology (CRAVE) Conference
November 4, 2015
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Ithaca, NY
The annual CRAVE (Cornell Recent Advances in Viticulture and Enology) conference features 15 minute presentations by Cornell faculty, extension associates, and graduate students on current extension and research topics of their choice. For this year’s conference, we would like to invite members of the industry to log on for as little or as much time as you want to hear cutting-edge presentations about viticulture, enology, economics and more. Find out what Cornell Research and Extension faculty and staff have been up to this past year.
December 2015
Pruning Workshop
December 4, 2015
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Penn Yan, NY
Learn how to prune grapevines with Cornell Cooperative Extension! This hands-on class will get you sharpening your skills out in the Finger Lakes Teaching and Demonstration Vineyard, so dress warmly, bring your shears, and be ready to put your new pruning prowess into practice.
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