Interested in adopting asparagus into your vegetable farm? Cornell Cooperative Extension is hosting a 3 hour virtual session on asparagus production. It is geared toward smaller acreage producers, not the large scale production that Michigan and Ontario have, so a great place to start if you are wanting to add this into your crop selection. Topics will be relevant to organic and conventional growers, so it should be a relevant and inclusive session on all things asparagus!
Cost is $20/farm and the lineup of speakers include:
- Site prep and crop
establishment (Elaine Roddy, OMAFA)
- Maintaining existing
planting (Ben Werling, MSU Extension)
- Variety overviews from
asparagus breeders (Fox Seeds & Walker Brothers)
- NY variety trial updates
(Elizabeth Buck, Cornell Vegetable Program)
- Organic asparagus production
(Pier-Luc Hervieux, Ferme CPL Hervieux)
- Crop establishment, efficiency & mechanization, post-harvest handling (Paul Fenton, Fenton's Produce)
Pre-registration required to receive the Zoom link. For more information
and to register: https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/event.php?id=2183
